Is Arabic really as hard as people say?

Well since English isn't related to it at all, yes. None the less, they write and read with no written vowels, you must memorize them beforehand, they also write from right to left and in a totally different alphabet which is technically called an abjad. An abjad is an alphabet without the vowels listed, like the Hebrew alphabet. There are also gender and grammatical cases, and there are some words that are spoken specifically by men or women. For instance, (f. kayfa ḥālik / m. kayfa ḥālak), the f = said by women, and m = said by men. This site should help TO an extent a href="http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/arabic.php" rel="nofollow"http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases…/a and a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.htm" rel="nofollow"http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.h…/a