One of these languages is going to be "harder" than the other for you to learn. For some people, they take to both like a duck to water. I'm one who had great difficulty with Greek, and relatively little with Hebrew. It helped [i:0cf8802072]some[/i:0cf8802072]in my case that I had learned a little Arabic as a MK. But I also studied two western languages as well before the biblical ones. And I can't speak any of them, and can only read the biblical ones.

Hebrew is "simpler." The memorization through use of cognates is not there (generally), but there are other tricks. And the structure or grammar is less complex. This will not necessarily make it easier. The alphabet is totally foreign, and the writing goes "backward," and the normal word order is verb-subject. Greek grammar is more complex, and exceptions are the rule. DON'T LET THESE CONCERNS DEFEAT YOU!

If I can learn Greek and Hebrew, then you probably can too. The matter comes down to willingness to put forth the effort, and conviction that it is the right thing to do. Don't sell ourself short. And it isn't as hard as it sometimes seems. Really.

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