Once you have an intermediate level of vocabulary, you can start to guess new words from context.

Before that point, though, you really need to study vocabulary. There's no way to understand otherwise.

我认为中文的语法不错。有很多词汇，但是每个语言也有很多词汇。阅读跟手写中文很难，需要很多时间，但是日本文也有这样问题。

汉语声调是难，但是越南语，泰语，等等也有这样问题。而且我有一个越南朋友：她认为学习汉语容易，因为她的母语也有声调。

所以，我不知道。学习汉字需要太多时间，但是我觉得说汉语比阿拉伯语容易，因为阿拉伯语的语法可怕的！

Of course, how do you know that the man who wrote the interpretation didn't misinterpret anything?

I think it depends on what you mean by "read" the Quran. I know plenty of Muslims who can read the sounds on the page, but they don't actually know Arabic so they don't really understand what they're reading. They need a translation to understand what's actually in the book. They can just memorize the sounds of the Arabic in the Quran and read the alphabet. But if you give them an Arabic newspaper they'd be lost. 

So yeah, I don't think that counts as "reading" to me. More "decoding."

Listen, if you want to make a thread about how the Quran is 100% true all the time, then title your thread "The Quran is always true." 

Don't make a deceptive question, ask for answers, and then lecture the "ignorant unbelievers" about the Quran while ignoring their answers. It's dishonest and annoying. 

If you have a question, ask a question. If you have a lecture, give a lecture. Don't disguise your lecture as a question. 

1) USA

2) 2, Spanish and French.

I felt like it was effective for teaching me to read, less so to write. The main flaw is that I spent most of my time interacting with fellow students and my teacher, who wasn't a native speaker. So I went six years of Spanish without ever speaking to a native speaker, which created quite a shock when I actually tried it for real the first time. . .

From studies of the time it takes children to learn to read, Japanese and Chinese are basically tied for "takes the most time to learn how to read in them." Chinese and Japanese kids generally take 2 or 3 years longer to learn how to read fluently than children who grow up with alphabet based languages.

So objectively, they're harder to read and write than other languages. As far as speaking goes, they're neither harder nor easier than others, objectively speaking. But otherwise it really depends on your first language. Mine is English, so French and Spanish obviously come faster to me than Arabic and Chinese. 

Still, the thing that nobody ever talks about in these discussions is materials. English actually isn't that "easy" to learn, but English is everywhere and tons of good materials exist. I actually feel that Chinese--despite being harder to read--is "easier" to learn than Arabic mostly because more and better materials exist for Chinese, and because Mandarin is much more standardized and widely used than fus7a (MSA/Modern Standard Arabic). 

With Chinese you can just study Mandarin and usually get by anywhere. Nobody really speaks fus7a in the Arab world, so if you want to really communicate you need to learn both fus7a and a dialect. Which, in my experience, makes it harder to make progress in despite maybe being "easier" to read (and not being a tone language like Chinese).

But really it comes down to your first language, materials available, and your interest/motivation level.

我的第一成语:"细水长流"

因为我的第一中文歌曲是＂红豆"（王菲）

我也喜欢＂马马虎虎"－很可爱－还有＂失败为成功的母"