He stressed the need to raise the competitiveness of "Arab"

Al-Ghadami: Describing our language as beautiful is no longer enough to attract generations

• Al-Ghadami demanded that our language represent a necessity for students.

  Photography: Arik Arazas

• Al-Ghadami: Language is a support for man in facing identities and conflicts.

  Photography: Eric Arazas

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The thinker, Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghadami, stressed the need to enhance the ability of the Arabic language to compete, so that it can achieve more spread, and capture the attention of new generations, which prompts them to learn and master it, explaining that the language is the human support in the face of ethnic identities and the destructive conflicts that result from them. .

Al-Ghathami added to "Emirates Today" that learning any language is related to the sense of those who learn it that it is useful to him, and that it will bring him practical benefit, such as someone who studies medicine or engineering in order to practice what he studied as a profession, so language students must feel that they will benefit from it, such as Qualifying for jobs, for example, calling on major institutions in the Arab region to support the learning of the Arabic language, whether for new generations or non-Arabs, by setting conditions for accepting applicants to fill positions with them that are linked to mastering the Arabic language.

The Saudi thinker, who won many awards, most notably the Cultural Personality of the Year award in the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2022, believed that the reason for the decline in learning and mastering the Arabic language is not the use of traditional teaching methods devoid of innovation and creativity, stressing that the student will not accept to learn Arabic just because. It is beautiful, but it must be a necessity for him and for other generations, and only then will it spread.

He added: «At the present time, we find that Arab students are confident that mastering the English language with a subject such as a computer will allow them to obtain a job opportunity anywhere in the world, not only in their country, and therefore the Arabic language will not be a competitive language unless it becomes feasible for those who learn it.”

Dr. Al-Ghadami pointed out that the Arabic language is not an identity, but rather an umbrella under which everyone who speaks it gathers, and therefore it works to achieve harmony among people, in contrast to radical identities and ideologies that are always bloody, aggressive and inciting to wars and conflicts.

He said: «The Arabic language is not a reason for conflict, as it represents health in contrast to other identities that represent harmful viruses that only result in destruction, and there is no person who is not exposed to harmful viruses, but health is what supports him and helps him overcome these viruses and bypass them without destroying him. Language is a support for humans in facing ethnic identities and the conflicts that result from them.

The Saudi thinker:

• "The Arabic language is not a cause for conflict, as it represents health in contrast to other identities that represent harmful viruses that only result in destruction."

• "Arab students are confident that mastering English and computers allows them to get a job anywhere in the world, not just in their country."

The arena has changed

The Saudi critic, Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghathami, explained that the literary and creative arena in the Arab region is no longer what it was in the past, especially with regard to what was known as the major cultural capitals in the region, referring to Cairo, Baghdad and Beirut, indicating that all Arab capitals at the time The current has become cultural capitals.

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