Introduction&History

1.Who speaks Arabic?

Arabic is the 3d language spoken in the world coming after Chinese and Spanish languages, which more than 220 Millions of people are speaking it in 21 Arabic countries as mother tongue besides Most of Muslims understand Arabic because they read Quran(the Muslim holy book) using it.
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2.Which countries speak Arabic language?

There are 21 Countries speak Arabic as mother tongue language and they are: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, U.A.E, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain,  Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Mauritania, besides there are Many Muslim countries have big communities who speak Arabic beside their mother language as Iran and Pakistan and Afghanistan,....etc.
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3. where did arabic alphabet come from (source)?

Arabic alphabet has evolved from the Aramaic alphabet , at first it was without dots and on the 7th century the dots and vowels points(signs) has been add to it.
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4. How many Letters does Arabic Alphabet has?

Arabic Alphabet has 28 letters and it has some extra letters which is comes so rarely .
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5. Are there dialects and accents in Arabic Language?

Of course, as any language in the world .But there is difference between Arabic and other languages which is there is no new words come up,in other words the dialect is classical Arabic but it has different pronunciation,for example in Egypt the letter " J " pronounced as " G "(as in Good) and qaf is pronounced as A .and so there is some thing I should mention which is: the sentences shorten for example : in Syria instead of saying how is your condition ?(it`s way to ask How are you in classical Arabic) they say how is yours? ( which subsistent understandable ) ,and there is some words came from other languages as turkish or Persian or Armenian but they are few .
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6.are there other Languages using the Arabic Alphabet and Numerals?

yes, there are. and they are many like Azerbaijani, Kabyle, Kashmiri, Kazakhi , Kurdish, Pashto, Urdu, Uzbek ,Persian,....etc. and I would like to explain something many people don`t know which is: the numerals which are used in latin languages as you know 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 are Arabic and the numerals which Arabic language use are the old Indian numerals .. you might wonder why is it like this? in fact there is no clear reason for it but I think it cames from the silk road direction so the caravans were coming from India to Arabic countries to sell their goods and Arabic caravans take the goods to Europe so it might be because of that but nobody knows exactly!
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7.Is arabic language difficult to learn?

I won`t say it is easy but its not difficult for who really want to learn it .
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8.which Arabic is better to learn Classical (Fusuha) or dialect ?

This is really an important question .. and everybody ask it! in fact the best is to learn Classical Arabic because all the Arabs can speak classical Arabic because all the books and news papers and news is written by classical Arabic and so the Quran is the main source for classical Arabic is repeated everyday many times in Muslim`s prayers.. so you won`t have problem with dialects or accents when you talk with people from any country if u speak classical Arabic all what you should do is configuring the accent of the country you are in and everything gonna be ok.
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9.Is there any Arabic Words shared with English language?

yes there is many words as sugar is sukkar ,giraffe is zarafa ,alcohol is alkohool,.... but if you are italian or spanish you can find many words more than what you can expect.
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