

We should not forget that there are 4 million Arab citizens in Turkey together with 4 million Arabic speaking people who have come to Turkey after the civil war broke out in Syria. Without putting a language into practice in our daily lives, we cannot have a good grasp of it.” Underlining the increasing importance of Arabic in recent years, Aktay said: We need more Arabic-speaking staff than the previous years. When you don’t speak, it doesn’t improve. Drawing attention to the fact that the student years are the most suitable times for learning languages, he warned “we learn a language but we do not speak it. He stated that he was born as the child of a family from Siirt and did not know a single word in Turkish until the primary school age and he was afraid of the word “bir” which means a “well” in Arabic when they wanted to enrol him to the first grade at primary school, so he started his education from the kindergarten. Our students have asked a wide range of questions ranging from how to teach and learn Arabic, which is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, to its importance in the business world.ĭuring the interview in Arabic, Aktay talked about his personal experiences and the importance of learning a foreign language.

Yasin Aktay is one of the first names that come to mind both in academia and in the political world when the subject is “Arabic”.

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