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It is not as difficult as people make it out to be. You CAN learn it!

Arabic has received a reputation for being difficult because of the “medieval” conceptions of Arabic language learning/teaching that have not changed much over the 1400 years that Arabic has been an international language. With modern approaches to language learning, however, Wilmsen claims Arabic is not so difficult…“especially if students begin with the spoken [colloquial] language.”