What Does It Take To Learn Enough Arabic To Students From High School?

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1. How do you think it would take to learn to learn enough Arabic to graduate from high school? With few exceptions and differences, the story in this assignment looks very familiar to me. By my election, I moved to the United States at he age of 25. Instead of get enroll in a high school, I got enroll in an English adult school. To learn basic English took around 6 years attending ESL classes. More than 20 years have passed and I am still learning English. I have an strong accent, my grammar is not a good as I would like, and I am not confident speaking English as I am in Spanish. Although English and Spanish have the same alphabet, it’s have been very difficult for me to learn English. I can not imagine how difficult would be learn Arabic, that has deep linguistic differences with English. For example, Arabic script is cursive, is read from right to left, and letters vary in shape …show more content…

I could see the difference in my nieces. They moved to America at the age of 10, and a years later she was speaking English as she speaks Spanish. Today, she almost graduate from an American university and has proficiency the English Language. Then, as a teenager it could take a couple years to learn enough Arabic to graduate from high school, while for an adult could take 10 or more years. 2. You drop out of school to work in order to help feed the family. How long will it take to learn enough Arabic to get your GED? Returning to school as an adult becomes more difficult to finish high school or GED. Obviously, besides the language barrier and many other factors included, it will take longer to learn enough Arabic and complete the GED exam. However with determination and dedication any goal can be achieved in life. 3. How long do you think it would take your parents, one a doctor and the other a lawyer, to become proficiency in Arabic to resume their previous

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