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Can I Complete The Gcse For Arabic And Latin In One Year

What language will be easier to learn: French or Arabic (at least up to B1 level)?

Thanks for asking, Denis!While learning either of them is certainly possible, in my opinion for someone who already speaks one or more Indo-European languages, French is likely to be easier.In French, the major challenges are probably the verb conjugation and the spelling. There are also two grammatical genders, but that’s nothing exceptional in Indo-European languages.Arabic, in contrast, belongs to a completely different language family and has thus many challenges you probably haven’t come across before.Starting from the script: there are 3 different forms of each letter depending on their place in the word (beginning, centre or end); and what’s more confusing, most of the vowels are not written at all. You simply have to guess them.In Arabic many grammatical changes occur on the level of vowels, also in the middle of the words, so from that perspective not writing the vowels is logical. But it isn’t easy when you are only learning the language.The grammatical genders manifest themselves also in the verb conjugation of Arabic.The spoken Arabic is nowadays also quite different from the written language, which may cause some extra challenges as well.Personally I made the mistake of taking a fast intensive course of Arabic, in which we had to learn all the 3 forms of each letter already after the very first class; and, in addition, many grammatical details, too. The speed was definitely too fast for most of us.Arabic is a fascinating language and definitely worth learning, but if you decide to study it I think it’s better to give it enough time and not expect to be fluent very soon. In my opinion, French is easier.

Do the British learn a second language? Are they more open to learning other languages than Americans?

Yes, as others have said, almost every child gets taught another language until Year 9.Exactly which language(s) you get may often depend on the availability of teaching staff.The most common in England are French, (European) Spanish or German. In Wales of course everyone learns Welsh. Some parts of Scotland teach Scots Gaelic.Other languages are very much in the minority, though there might be some schools that teach Hindi, Polish, Arabic or another language for which the UK has a significant population (I won’t say immigrant because many of those communities have been here for generations).In my day (1970s), though we all did it, the quality of the language instruction was not very high. Most of the teachers were not native speakers, just Brits who had learned it in England themselves. So we were sometimes taught very outdated or incorrect things (such as calling a French waiter “Garçon”, which hasn’t been acceptable since the 1940s).

An honest opinion. Is French a hard language to learn?

No, it's not hard to learn (no harder than spanish if that's your other choice which i imagine it is) I started French in 8th grade, took it through my 1st year of college. I loved it, i picked it because i thought it was prettier than spanish (LOL) French culture is fun to learn about as well. And if your folks speak it then they will be great at helping you with homework and pronounciation- stick with it!
Any language is challenging at first but really, the school textbooks take it pretty slow and they won't be teaching you anything too complicated in 7th grade. When I was in school the amount of kids taking french was always smaller than those taking spanish which was actually kind of nice- smaller classes and we did some cool field trips. And smaller classes mean more attention from the teacher. No worries, enjoy 7th grade!

Should I take Latin or Spanish in college?

I am a premed major. I see the benefit in taking spanish and latin but im not sure which to choose. Spanish for communication and Latin for medical terms, science terms etc. Which is better for me and which do Med schools generally like better.

Al Khwarizmi algebra- solving quadratic equation?

the arabic method is simply algebra, since algebra was named after al ge.. some arabic guy with a similar name.

a. let the quantity be x
multiply a third of the quantity plus a unit by a fourth of the quantity plus a unit, and it becomes 20 units, so:
(x/3 + 1)(x/4 + 1) = 20
(x + 3)/3 * (x + 4)/4 = 20
x^2 + 4x + 3x + 12 = 20*3*4
x^2 + 7x + 12 - 240 = 0
x^2 + 7x - 228 = 0
(228 = 12*19, so use that to factorize)
x^2 + 19x - 12x - 228 = 0
x(x + 19) - 12(x + 19) = 0
(x + 19)(x - 12) = 0
x = -19
or x = 12
since i don't think the arabs were too concerned with negative numbers back then, the answer is 12

b. let the quantity be x again
multiply by a fourth of the quantity, in such a way, as to give the quantity itself plus 24 units
hmm, this one is incomplete, multiply WHAT by a fourth of the quantity? i think it probably continues from the previous question, multiply a third of the quantity by a fourth of the quantity
so, x/3 * x/4 = x + 24
x^2/12 = x + 24
x^2 = 12x + 12*24
x^2 - 12x - 12*24 = 0
x^2 + 12x - 24x - 12*24 = 0
x(x + 12) - 24(x + 12) = 0
(x - 24)(x + 12) = 0
x = 24
or x = -12
take the positive answer, x = 24

c.
divide 10 into a quantity and a remaining part, so that the sum of the squares of the two portions is 58
here, divide doesn't really mean division, it just means separating into two parts (think subtraction)
let the quantity be x
then the remaining part of 10 would be 10 - x
so the sum of the squares of the two is 58
x^2 + (10 - x)^2 = 58
x^2 + 100 - 20x + x^2 = 58
2x^2 - 20x + 100 - 58 = 0
2 [x^2 - 10x + 21] = 0
x^2 - 7x - 3x + 21 = 0
x(x - 7) - 3(x - 7) = 0
(x - 3)(x - 7) = 0
either x = 3
or x = 7
either way, the two parts are 3 and 7
(10 - 3 = 7, 10 - 7 = 3)

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