Chokri Alaya, a teacher who currently teaches Arabic at HKBU SCE and HKU SPACE, said in an interview with Wen Wei Po that the vast majority of students in his class did not encounter much resistance in their studies. “Although we had some problems with pronunciation at the beginning, we were able to maintain our enthusiasm and overcome them gradually.” Pronunciation difficulties are overcome with passion He admitted that many people have a strong interest in Middle Eastern culture, but few people actually take the time to learn Arabic. If you really want to learn Arabic well, he suggests that you can try to visit some Arabic-speaking countries and communicate more with local people. Because each country and region has its own Arabic dialect and words from different sources, it is difficult to truly experience these differences and changes through classroom, self-study or online videos. Chokri gave an example. His hometown is in Tunisia, and Tunisian Arabic is often considered the most difficult dialect to understand, but he thinks this is a misunderstanding of most people. In fact, because many words in Tunisian Arabic come from French, Spanish and Italian, people from Egypt and the Persian Gulf region feel that they have never seen or heard of them and find it difficult to understand. Without these loanwords, Tunisian Arabic is one of the dialects closest to modern standard Arabic.