MaceMan: The alphabet is made out of 28 base letters
MaceMan: Each letter has forms depending on where they are in a word, isolated, innitial, middle, and final
MaceMan: 24 letters have 4 different forms
MaceMan: 4 of them have 2 forms
MaceMan: So that's 104 different forms of letters you have to memorize to write Arabic
MaceMan: Then you have to memorize the accent marks. Arabic has 10 of them
MaceMan: So that's 114 things you need to memorize
MaceMan: And there are five basic scripts in Arabic
MaceMan: Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Farsi, and Kufic
MaceMan: So that's 570 things you need to memorize just to write arabic
MaceMan: BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE NUMBERS
MaceMan: 10 numbers for each script is 50 more that you need to memorize
MaceMan: 620 things you need to memorize to be fully literate in Arabic
MaceMan: Not words, not grammar, not syntax, but lettersm accents, and numbers
MaceMan: BUT THEN THERE'S THE FACT THAT NO ONE SPEAKS CLASSICAL ARABIC AND YOU NEED TO LEARN A DIALECT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A FULL CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE
MaceMan: SO YOU NEED TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU JUST LEARNED AGAIN IN A DIFFERENT ACCENT AND WITH DIFFERENT WORDS AND IN SOME CASES DIFFERENT GRAMMAR
MaceMan: Never learn Arabic