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beezneez  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, I want to learn arabic. Where do I start?

You could get some short-term, very rapid progress by only learning how to speak it. But very soon, you'll run into a word that you don't know and you'll need to look it up. Or you'll come across a zebra that you need to read. Take the literate approach and learn to read and write it as well, it will help you later on.