Is Arabic language lost ..?
Our children in the Diaspora and even in Arab countries speak today the colloquial dialect, which is poor in content and has multiple accents, that has no relation to the mother tongue..As most Arab countries have been subjected to emptying the school curricula of its content of Arab identity, history, heroics, poets, and the depth and power of the classical Arabic language which is the language of heavens.
When we start focusing on classical Arabic, we collide with the fact that learner is as if learning a different new language from scratch, so he does not know how to measure it, its formation, or its phonemic characters, and he does not have any linguistic or vocabulary content that makes it float even a little in this ocean, which leads him and his family to reluctance to learn the classical language.
Today, our biggest concern has become for children to read and write in a right, proper way, and we no longer care if they set perfectly the letters, or master the arts of expression, but rather our last concern is to get to know our poetry and our huge literary heritage that extends to long ages of creativity.
Our interest in foreign languages is justified to some extent, as modern sciences, scholarly references and research are all written in foreign languages, of course this is not a weakness of Arabic language but a shortcoming of us, and the conversation goes on pretty much in this aspect.
Nevertheless, all linguistic specialists conferms that the strength of learning any new language depends directly on the linguistic stock of mother tongue, whenever the dictionary of the mother tongue and its storage for a foreign language speaker is weak, for sure, it will lead to a weakness in the foreign language and its mastery.
Just as we insure for our children a decent life in all fields, including science, technology and languages, so it is their right that we do not deprive them of their knowledge of their mother tongue, and it is our duty and responsibility towards them, for we know and they do not know.
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