I'm trying to learn Arabic and you're knocking my efforts.

I don't have a '3' sound in my vocabulary based on the lessons I learned and from the books and tapes I have.

 I have a '9' as in 9aleykum and a '4' as in tibr4a and a '2' as in el2eyr.

I admire people who try to speak another language no matter how many errors they make (which can sometimes be amusing and I laugh at my own mistakes) what I don't like is someone who 'smirks' about someone's efforts to learn.

You are very patronising.