[cgk]

Is Arabic the same as Farsi? A dialect of it, maybe? I know she's fluent in Arabic. Linda rocks :)

[TonyInOhio]

Is Arabic the same as Farsi?

No, Farsi is spoken in Iran and is the language of lands populated by Persian descendants.

[goodnesswins]

Farsi - Persian Language (FROM GOOGLE)
Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region.

Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates), as well as large communities in the USA.

Total numbers of speakers is high: over 30 million Farsi speakers (about 50% of Iran's population); over 7 million Dari Persian speakers in Afghanistan (25% of the population); and about 2 million Dari Persian speakers in Pakistan.

[lepton]

Is Arabic the same as Farsi?

Unrelated. Farsi is "Persian", the language the Iranians speak. They just both happen to be predominently Muslim.

[katana]

Completely different. Arabic is a Semitic language (like Hebrew and Aramaic - the language of Judea at the time of Christ). Farsi is an Indo-European language related to all the languages spoken in Europe (except, I think, Basque) including English.

Many words are shared with Arabic because of religion and proximity to the Arabs, but an Iranian won't understand an Arab in conversation any better than a Swede would understand a Japanese.