I want to learn Arabic?
Mainly so that I can read the original, untranslated Quran but it’d be interesting to learn a different language. How can I learn it for free? Isn’t the written Arabic in the Quran different from the written Arabic most native Arabs use? Does the Quran use an old type of Arabic language that will be difficult to understand like how Shakespeare uses old English? How easy is it for a fluent Arabic speaker to read and understand the Quran? Thanks. 
I already know some of the alphabets in the Arabic languages and my language shares some common words with it (I’m Somali) like door – albab – or book – katab, etc. and common sounds like “xa” or “ha” (I mean the hard “h” sound) “qa”, ” ‘a”, etc. so it shouldn’t be too hard, right?
Yes, traditional Arabic is very different from modern Arabic (and it’s many dialects). Traditional Arabic is archaic it’s like an Anglo-phone reading middle-English. Someone fluent will understand, but it’ll have a lot of words that might be troubling to understand to modern speakers. If you really want to learn it– I would suggest you hier a tutor if you can. It’s very different than English, and can get complicating.
Edit: If you know Somali, it will really help more than knowing just English. Somali isn’t a Semitic language, but it is Afro-Asiatic like Arabic and shares some grammar in common.
Edit: Rosetta stone isn’t the best program to use for learning Arabic, because it uses verb tenses in the present progressive which is not used frequently in Arab.
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