How hard is it to learn the Arabic alphabet?
It's most certainly NOT as easy as learning the English alphabet. However, with the right method it should only take a few hours to get down the basics. Here are a few essential rules to get you started: 1. Arabic is written from right to left. Not only whole sentences, but also the words themselves are written from right to left. 2. The Arabic script is a cursive script. That means that it is a lot like our handwriting, where we connect all the letters in a word to the adjoining letters. Even in our own handwriting we have to mkae some adjustments to be able to connect say the "r" with the "t" in the handwritten word "start". Likewise, in Arabic the letters change their shapes depending on whether they are: a) isolated (i.e. on their own) b) final (i.e. only connected from the right) c) medial (i.e. connected from both the right and to the left) d) initial (i.e. only connected to the left) At first, this can be confusing, as some letter shapes seem to be totally different depending on their position in a word. Just try to understand it logically. For example, the letter "meem" (م) has a very long tail. It would be impracticable to connect the bottom of this tail to the next letter on the left. That's why the "tail" gets cut off when it's connected to the left, making the writing of the word easier. There are similar reasons for the other letters. 3. Arabic has a few sounds that do not exist in English, such as khaa', Zaa', Saad, Daad, 'ayn, ghayn, raa' . What you have to do is to listen to recordings of these sounds by anative speaker. 4. If you're looking for an easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet and writing system, why not check out my digital book "The Magic Key To The Arabic Alphabet"? You can find out more about it here: http://www.arabicgenie.com The book contains a unique method that uses memory images for each letter, so that you won't have to learn them by rote. There is also a free companion website ( http://www.arabicgenie.com/arabicletters... ) that contains pronunciation sound files for all the letters.
Can you say the alphabet backwards?
Are you asking this because you've ever seen this "sobriety test" done in real life? or did you just hear that it was done and didn't bother to think that it isn't actually done? I cannot, nor can most people (wow...I just said "nor") but even if that was a "test" the test wouldn't be whether or not you can say the alphabet backwards, it will be how you handle the task(s) you are given
Simple yet hard.I honestly believe it has something to do with our abillity of quickly picking up patterns.As you numerically go south, you might find yourself toppling multiple times and stuttering. However, as you proceed with the counting, you would find yourself going progressively fast, because you picked up the pattern and figured out that it has little to do with memory.Alphabets, on the other hand, have no patterns. They depend solemnly on memory. So if you started from Z.. you would probably make it as far as W.. and then mentally recite the alphabet forwards a hundred times to remember just the one or two preceeding letters. Tricky.
Japanese hiragana/katakana are easy to learn. Kanji (characters) are daunting because you need to memorise about +1000 to be functionally literate. However, it is actually not that difficult because the meaning of most vocabulary which number in excess of 100,0000 for any language become self apparent with kanji.Japanese grammar is somewhat problematic. Japanese conversational speech is somewhat easy to pick up at the beginning because things like subject can be omitted. You could adlib Japanese to some extent at basic level.However, mastering it is difficult especially for people from Indo-European language background because the logic behind the grammar is quite alien. Also, Japanese grammar is very fuzzy to the point that there is still a debate even among Japanese linguist about how Japanese grammar could be described.For example, ‘there isn’t an elephant in the room’ could be written as ‘heya ni zo ga inai’, heya ni zo ha inai’ ‘zo ha heya niha inai’ ‘zo ha hena ni inai’ , all have very subtle difference in emphasis and intent as well as context. In Quora, you will often get, someone asking ‘what the difference between ‘furimuku’ and ‘kurikaeru’? etc. Interestingly, if you go to Yahoo Q&A which is Japanese version of quora, Japanese are asking similar question as well.
Why is the Cyrillic alphabet so backward?
They use the Cyrillic alphabet because it works so much better for Slavic languages than the Latin alphabet. Russian uses Cyrillic and has one letter for each sound plus ь to indicate soft consonants; Polish and Czech use the Latin alphabet and have to resort to combinations of letters and diacritics to achieve what Russian does so elegantly. I'm sure Russians wonder why we use a backwards И for Н and a backwards Я for Р. Silliness is in the eye of the beholder. Ss Cyril and Methodius developed the Cyrillic alphabet to translate the Bible into Slavonic when the Roman church was still expecting everyone to learn Latin if they wanted to read the Bible. Since then it's been adapted to fit languages as diverse as Romanian and Mongolian and updated and modernized as the Russian language changed. In English we are stuck with unnecessary letters like Q and X while lacking letters for common sounds like th, sh, ch, and more than half of our vowels. It looks like the Latin alphabet is the one that's backward, not Cyrillic.
Does anyone have a backwards alphabet?
You mean this: Zz Yy Xx Ww Vv Uu Tt Ss Rr Qq Pp Oo Nn Mm Ll Kk Jj Ii Hh Gg Ff Ee Dd Cc Bb Aa I don't know if you are talking about this. But I worked very hard on this so can you give me a BEST answer. PLEASE.I meant to say pretty please Thank you
Why is it difficult for most to say the alphabet backwards but easy to count that way?
1.PRACTICE Repetition is necessary to count or recite backwards with facility. We have less practice in reciting the alphabet backwards, so it is more difficult. To see improvement, practice. When you try, you will find that even thinking of the alphabet backwards is a challenge. 2.ORDINAL VERSUS SERIAL LEARNING We learned numbers ordinally, that is, in order: The order of the number in the list is important. It is the cue for the number that is in the position either before or after. So, it is easy to think of the order of numbers in either direction, almost as if we could see the list of numbers in our mind. On the other hand, we learned the alphabet serially: That is, each letter is a cue for the next letter in the series. Since we did not learn the position of the letters, they are not cues for the letter positioned before it. It is as if we can hear the alphabet letters in our mind, but not see them. Hence it is difficult to recall what comes before a letter; we only know the series in one direction. 3.NEW LEARNING To learn the alphabet backwards, we have to learn a completely new series.
Learn the following poem:Said Y, "Eggs double you fee"You tea is our QPOh, 'en 'em 'ell, KJI hate G if he deceive BAOnce you can recite it from memory, just adjust how you pronounce some of the words so they sound more like the associated letter.Should take you about 5 minutes.