The Arabic Language: The Epic Story of Kings, Poets, and Scholars

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  • 🐪🐪🐪Arabic is as mysterious as it is beautiful. Full of rich history and poetic power-plays, this is one video you won’t want to miss! Join me as we take a closer look into this ancient language that is spoken today by over 420 million people.
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    0:19 - What is Arabic?
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    8:02 - Modern Standard Arabic
    10:13 - The Nahda
    11:53 - The Dialects
    13:38 - Alphabet and Writing
    18:23 - Pronunciation
    19:17 - A World of Synonyms
    20:24 - Grammar Basics
    23:16 - Beautiful Vocabulary
    24:13 - Influence of Arabic
    24:53 - How Hard is Arabic to Learn?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 337

  • @storylearning
    @storylearning  Рік тому +17

    Check out my experience learning Egyptian Arabic! 👉🏼 ua-cam.com/video/yDCgDRHeE2w/v-deo.html

    • @khaleedabdul-azeezedwards9523
      @khaleedabdul-azeezedwards9523 Рік тому

      You are wrong. All of the dialects stem from classical Arabic.

    • @flamencocristobal
      @flamencocristobal Рік тому +4

      Hi Olly, I just looked on Amazon...which is where I purchased a good number of your books....and since you did a video on Arabic...I thought maybe the Arabic for Beginners book would be out...I've only ever seen the Intermediate level Arabic...and thought there has to be a book before that one...but it doesn't appear so...if there is please let me know...I appreciate your method and it's improved my proficiency a number of languages....I've reached a comfortable level on the others and have for some time wanted to focus solely on Arabic....thanks for the guidance....and again...please let me know if you have Arabic for beginners....CW.

    • @uniuni8855
      @uniuni8855 9 місяців тому

      There is a theory that says Arabic was already widespread in the ancient world, what you call Babylonian is merely an old Arabic dialect with two scripts or three... same for Dilmun ect

    • @tjo6252
      @tjo6252 4 місяці тому

      Free Palestine from the animals who occupied it for 75 years

    • @tsehaye777
      @tsehaye777 2 місяці тому

      Minutes 3 to 4 is essentially saying we know its not arabic and we now aramaic assyrian hebrew Geez existed and we know which scripts were used and originated where but we need to give arabs some historical medal somehow even if we know the so called arabic features which are probably just ال al and و w also exist in the same and other forms in the other ancient languages, sorry but historical sincerity is becoming a joke

  • @sadhbh4652
    @sadhbh4652 Рік тому +318

    Just took trips to Jordan and Egypt this year to practice my Arabic. I'm only a beginner but it's a very beautiful language. My teacher is Palestinian, free Palestine x

    • @hamzsportsgaming676
      @hamzsportsgaming676 Рік тому +17

      Free palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤❤

    • @gentilporcelet8035
      @gentilporcelet8035 11 місяців тому +1

      No politic please, don't say that words so easily please words are important know what you talking about instead of just repeat what told you your teacher

    • @sadhbh4652
      @sadhbh4652 11 місяців тому +38

      ​@@gentilporcelet8035I am Irish. Every Irish person has deep support for Palestine because of the similarities in our history. I am not "repeating what my teacher told me"

    • @chickenstrangler3826
      @chickenstrangler3826 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@sadhbh4652 Palestine doesn't exist anymore, boohoo. They are Israeli's now.

    • @Feras_Plays
      @Feras_Plays 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@chickenstrangler3826then explains to me who ownes parts of the west bank and gaza strip?

  • @rollizle
    @rollizle Рік тому +117

    I'm Jewish and learned Hebrew as a kid in school. I got into language learning in 2021 when in Covid and I started reviving my Hebrew after not speaking it for 18 years. I'm learning Modern Standard Arabic now and the similarities to Hebrew constantly blow my mind, such beautiful languages.

    • @letsunnahgoforth
      @letsunnahgoforth Рік тому +11

      That’s because both of them belong to the Semitic language family also including along with Arabic and Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, ge,’ez, Phoenician/Punic, Assyrian Akkadian, , Maltese, Canaanite

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 Рік тому +9

      @@letsunnahgoforth Coptic ancient Egyptian isn't Semitic. Both Egyptian and Semitic are Afro-Asiatic, along with Berber and Hausa and some other languages. I once got a letter with the start of the Bible in Tamasheq Tawa, a Berber language, and while the words are completely different, the word order and formation are strikingly similar to Hebrew.

    • @letsunnahgoforth
      @letsunnahgoforth Рік тому +2

      @@pierreabbat6157 Oh I didn’t know that although I wonder where the Afro asiatic language family as a whole originate from with Porto Afro asiatic. I heard that it originated in east Africa although I am not sure

    • @BioSlayer111
      @BioSlayer111 Рік тому +5

      Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon) in the medieval ages standardised Hebrew to the Arabic grammar hence so much resonance between both languages.

    • @YeshuaIsTheTruth
      @YeshuaIsTheTruth 11 місяців тому +1

      I've been learning Hebrew and listening to some Christian songs in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The similarities really are incredible!

  • @nerd26373
    @nerd26373 Рік тому +70

    The Arabic language has its complexities. We love learning the histories behind various languages and dialects all over the world on this channel.

  • @amerbeyblader5832
    @amerbeyblader5832 11 місяців тому +47

    Actually, it's the quite opposite. When you speak standard Arabic you are more respected, no one will look at you with weird looks or think you are funny. Standard Arabic is almost, literally, in every single thing in our lives. Even when we speak our dialects we use standard Arabic a lot even with our close ones.
    Advise: If you are planning to learn Arabic, please do not learn a dialect before The standard Arabic because your pronunciation, spelling, and speaking skills will be all either incorrect or limited to a certain community, and whatever you write in a dialect will be incorrect and informal because the Arabic dialects are not written, they are just spoken.
    Or you can easily just stick to standard Arabic. You will find no problems in communication or writing because almost all Arabs speak and understand Standard Arabic.
    I like your videos and I appreciate you putting the effort to inform and teach people about Arabic and its History 👍

    • @Mochi-re8cv
      @Mochi-re8cv 9 місяців тому +8

      Exactly basic Arabic is actually really respected so whoever wants too learn MSA go for it ! And you can also speak in it as well no worries

    • @khadijahameedaldeen9614
      @khadijahameedaldeen9614 8 місяців тому +5

      I agree, start with MSA. People will admire you when you speak to them in MSA. This is cuz we are proud of our language. Even we blame ourselves for not using MSA more often.
      I am from Yemen and when I go to othrt Arab country with difficult dialect I use MSA and I get well with local people.

    • @Mochi-re8cv
      @Mochi-re8cv 8 місяців тому +3

      @@khadijahameedaldeen9614 exactly we are also almost ashamed for not using msa often it’s how the prophet (saw) and Sahaba (as) used to speak there is nothing wrong with it

    • @OMAR-ck5wk
      @OMAR-ck5wk 7 місяців тому +1

      Tbh he is right. What you’re saying is ideal but it’s not the reality in the street. I’m Egyptian and if I was to speak MSA to people in Egypt, they would give me the funny looks for sure!
      I live in Canada now and even with the different Arabs I meet here I’ve never met anyone that speaks MSA unless I didn’t understand what he’s saying in his dialect, so they’ll explain in MSA or English.

    • @Wazkaty
      @Wazkaty 2 місяці тому +1

      Any advices for listening Arabic ? Radio ? TV ? I want to be understood by the whole Arabic world

  • @jeremyhodge6216
    @jeremyhodge6216 4 місяці тому +10

    Arabic is a language of pure beauty 😁👌💯

  • @omarsalkamusic
    @omarsalkamusic Рік тому +13

    I was studying Arabic for a long time and thoroughly enjoyed learning; I recently switched to Spanish for work purposes. Great video. In my experience the english speakers who attempted to learn Arabic struggled.

    • @Aadrian7
      @Aadrian7 Рік тому

      Out of curiosity, did you also study Arabic dialects or just MSA? How hard is it to go from studying MSA to a dialect like Eyptian or Jordanian Arabic?

    • @omarsalkamusic
      @omarsalkamusic Рік тому +1

      @@Aadrian7 Hi there. I grew up understanding levantine dialect from my parents. When I was in law school I took Arabic courses and studied MSA on my own. The transition was hard but not impossible. There are many irregular verbs and one must get accustomed to the case endings. It was pretty difficult. The other students struggled I felt. Moreover, some of the letters are hard to pronounce. Spanish is obviously quite a bit easier to learn for english speakers.
      I imagine going from MSA (if you have a solid grasp) to dialect is not as difficult. I hope this helps.
      Another thing, the textbook the class utilized (Alkitaab) was not concise nor did it explain concepts well. Finding the best book is essential.

  • @william_shakespeare
    @william_shakespeare Рік тому +15

    Brilliantly put together! Thank you shedding light on the Arabic learning journey. Hoping this motivates many people to learn our beautiful language ❤️

  • @jmwild22
    @jmwild22 Рік тому +19

    So beautiful! Definitely going to learn Arabic. I've only ever heard native speakers at airports, but when that intercom comes on, it might as well be a Bedouin reading poetry, the way the lilt falls on my ears!

  • @jiraiya.13
    @jiraiya.13 Рік тому +24

    Solid one, Uncle, really enjoyed this one. As a muslim born in Indonesia, it is a must to learn how to read Arabic letters so we can proceed to read the Qur'an and hadith scripts, but that ends up making most of us only know how to read without really comprehending what these words mean.
    This episode is a refreshing one for me. Thanks, Uncle Olly! 🤝🏼

    • @michael30000
      @michael30000 9 місяців тому

      Yes same with places like Pakistan, who end up giving that particular religion a bad name through misinterpretation

    • @Yanzdorloph
      @Yanzdorloph 8 місяців тому

      that's pretty cool, it means you can write indonesian in both latin and arabic scripts

  • @elainebelzDetroit
    @elainebelzDetroit Місяць тому +1

    Arabic is such a beautiful language. I do get to hear it a lot here in Detroit. Today we even had an Arabic Mass at my church (with some English) led by a local congregation that's the only Arabic-language Episcopal congregation in the US. So that was really cool, & I'm sure part of why I wanted to watch this! I'm not to sure of my ability to learn it, but I would like to get some really, really basic familiarity. I tried learning some Biblical Hebrew back in the day (I did an academic degree in theology, so didn't need it, but dabbled) & only could make it so far. Who knows, maybe some day? It would be handy around here to be able to read some Arabic.

  • @GreatMisterE
    @GreatMisterE Рік тому +12

    Its so intimidating and difficult in my experience because of its complexity and just being totally different from any other one I know, but I hope to learn it one day after all. Thank you for shining so much light on one of the most incredible languages full of beauty and wisdom.

    • @ikka489
      @ikka489 4 місяці тому +1

      I understand your feelings, I also had to learn it at school and it was the worst class for me. But let me tell you, once your reach a high enough level to recognise eloquence, you would enjoy hearing arabic poems.

    • @ThePunisher014
      @ThePunisher014 4 місяці тому

      That‘s what makes it great, that it’s so different ! that and the fact that the holy Qur‘an was revealed and that language.

  • @abernardes2
    @abernardes2 Рік тому +3

    The video I was waiting for 🎉

  • @jamesmartin3599
    @jamesmartin3599 Рік тому +8

    Your Arabic book of short stories is excellent. And then it seems you set Arabic aside. I am so exited that you are launching back into Arabic….please please please go beyond intermediate.

  • @user-kj8yl6sn2z
    @user-kj8yl6sn2z Рік тому +8

    I advise everyone to learn the Arabic language for many reasons because it is an important language in understanding world politics and in understanding the rich archeology of the Arab world and in trade because the emerging Arab countries are growing their economy strongly and in literature because the Arabic language is the richest language in the world in terms of poetry and aesthetics because the Arabs were the most poetic and eloquent people in the world And in understanding ancient history from an Arab perspective, as well as important in the study of comparative religions because the Arabic language is the language of the Qur’an and the hadith of the Prophet, and they are the two books that Muslims depend on in understanding their religion.

    • @Historian212
      @Historian212 Рік тому +1

      That’s quite a sentence!

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 місяці тому

      paragraph sentence

  • @certinho76
    @certinho76 Рік тому +13

    Egyptian Dialect is the most recognized because of their great esteem with Nasserism, Al-Azhar , the Egyptian film industry, and their military power.
    The Next most recognized dialect is the Levantine or Shaami dialect because a few countries speak it such as Syria or (Shaams), Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.

    • @fogshadow9112
      @fogshadow9112 10 місяців тому +1

      Also because Egypt 🇪🇬 has over 100 million people 😂😂😂❤❤❤

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      Choosing a dialect - pronunciation - occurs after acquiring the language. The choice of tone is determined by several factors, including, for example, the destination. I hope this is what you mean

  • @gabriellawrence6598
    @gabriellawrence6598 Рік тому +9

    Finally a video about this language. Even though Arabic has a more recent written history than Hebrew, it is actually closer to what Proto Semitc might have looked like, both in grammar and pronunciation. And to all of the new students to Arabic, I say: don't stress about the standard/dialects duality. It is not so hard to pick up the spoken versions if you dedicate some time to listening to media from those places, like vlogs.

    • @Historian212
      @Historian212 Рік тому +1

      Hebrew is directly related to Canaanite, interestingly.

    • @ancientromewithamy
      @ancientromewithamy 4 місяці тому

      This was a great anxiety of mine: what kind of Arabic to learn? So I am learning some MSA and I will learn other things later, I just want to get some kind of foundation.

  • @homer2281
    @homer2281 Рік тому

    thanks a alot mr Olly for creating this channel. your content adds much value to my language learning and to my life. shared ur channel with my friends as well they loved it

  • @deutschmitpurple2918
    @deutschmitpurple2918 Рік тому +3

    Excellent video

  • @tedc9682
    @tedc9682 Рік тому +8

    Although you are a language-learning coach (and created the StoryLearning series of language learning books), you give away a TON of information on UA-cam. So much accurate content, such interesting videos, and all for free! Thank you.

  • @ethanninteynine
    @ethanninteynine Рік тому +5

    Great video! I would love to see you make a video about how the Thai language is connected to other languages in Asia.

  • @SENSO_X
    @SENSO_X 4 місяці тому

    Your vids about Arabian language is super fun to watch, am Arabian myself and learned new things tbh 😅

  • @DamassiTV
    @DamassiTV 10 місяців тому +1

    Amazing video. Greeting from Morocco ❤️🇲🇦

  • @vikalprana2140
    @vikalprana2140 Рік тому +9

    You did a video on Latin recently
    Wanna do one on Sanskrit and ancient Greek??😅

  • @Anas-ro7vg
    @Anas-ro7vg Рік тому +14

    Is it just me or the audio is a bit delayed?

  • @highchamp1
    @highchamp1 Рік тому +2

    Excellent!
    Michel Thomas Egyptian Arabic Course.
    Great for beginners.
    Mnemonics make it really easy.

    • @Ibnmajed
      @Ibnmajed Місяць тому

      و لكن تذكر اذا تعلمت اللهجة المصرية فلن تقرأ كتابا واحدا بها و لن تقرأ القرآن و لن تفهم العربية الرسمية بسهولة.و اتمنى لك التوفيق

  • @andersschmich8600
    @andersschmich8600 4 місяці тому +1

    Late, but I started my sojourn into Arabic with the goal of being able to read the Arabic classics and enhance my academic credentials.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 Рік тому +5

    Arabic has fatḥa, Hebrew has pataḥ, and Syriac has ptaḥa. They all look different, but they all sound like /a/, and they all mean "open".

  • @ancientromewithamy
    @ancientromewithamy 4 місяці тому

    Since this video has clips from Maha's channel, I just want to say I recommend her channel also for people who want some Arabic explained in English. I watch with a pen and paper to jot things dots. She explains very well and does a lot to keep you from getting overly intimidated by things like the grammar!

  • @anonymoustv5770
    @anonymoustv5770 Рік тому +6

    Cheers from Sudan

  • @anasaiwhaib
    @anasaiwhaib Рік тому +2

    Nice video

  • @YeshuaIsTheTruth
    @YeshuaIsTheTruth 11 місяців тому +1

    Please write a Short Stories in Hebrew! I'm reading the first French one and I love it! Once I learn the abjad I'd like to pick up the Arabic one too.

  • @thato596
    @thato596 Рік тому +2

    Interesting video and arabic language

  • @phoenixknight8837
    @phoenixknight8837 Рік тому +7

    This was hilariously entertaining and simultaneously informative! As a colloquial Arabic speaker it is frustrating to learn MSA due to being raised in the West.

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +5

      glad you enjoyed the vid!

    • @CaptainLysandra
      @CaptainLysandra Місяць тому

      Saaaaame I wish my parents talked to me in classical arabic lol

  • @tomaszwitkowski9545
    @tomaszwitkowski9545 Рік тому +4

    Hi Olly :) I would love to listen to your conversation with Bartek Czekała - probably the only one polyglot who is not interested in languages themselves. And he is raising his child bilingually, talking to him in English, being non-native, that is buffling.

  • @sang-jinchung3959
    @sang-jinchung3959 Рік тому +26

    Kurdish is indo European language, not Semitic
    Edit: that error was removed from the video

  • @xin215
    @xin215 6 місяців тому +2

    A lot of people seem to conflate Arabic with like Hindi due to Islam lol when this is not the case. Smooth, spoken Arabic sounds more like a Romance language than Indo-Aryan

    • @lightscameras4166
      @lightscameras4166 6 місяців тому

      I don’t get what you mean, can you explain more

    • @xin215
      @xin215 6 місяців тому

      What do you need me to explain@@lightscameras4166

  • @user-fv8iy6iv6m
    @user-fv8iy6iv6m 2 місяці тому +2

    There is a great deal of confusion between Arabs and Arab Bedouins (الأعراب), and academics from the West deliberately obscure the history of the Arabs and make it only about the Arab Bedouins...but if you look at Arabic, you will find that it is rich and has high qualities...it cannot be derived from a simple language.

  • @danime1941
    @danime1941 4 місяці тому

    This video is very underrated

  • @Honest_Question
    @Honest_Question 4 місяці тому +2

    As an Arab, I would definitely agree that you should learn a bit of MSA first, but I think the levantine (Syrian/Palestinian/Jordanian) dialect is a better option than the Egyptian, seeing as it is the closest dialect to MSA, and understood nearly as widely as Egyptian.

  • @stefanodadamo6809
    @stefanodadamo6809 Рік тому +3

    Language of incalculable importance for a large part of the world. Even in Italian we have several loanwords.

    • @jmwild22
      @jmwild22 Рік тому +3

      ["invaluable" 🙂]

  • @yousuf6382
    @yousuf6382 Рік тому +7

    Tons ! Where do you get this information ! The influence of Persian on Arabic is almost non-existent (maybe 30 words) .. While Persian borrows 60% from Arabic

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam Рік тому +27

    The issue of whether Arabic is one language or many languages is politically charged, in the same way it is for the varieties of Chinese, Hindi and Urdu, Serbian and Croatian, Scots and English, etc. In contrast to speakers of Hindi and Urdu who claim they cannot understand each other even when they can, speakers of the varieties of Arabic will claim they can all understand each other even when they cannot.[68] While there is a minimum level of comprehension between all Arabic dialects, this level can increase or decrease based on geographic proximity: for example, Levantine and Gulf speakers understand each other much better than they do speakers from the Maghreb. The issue of diglossia between spoken and written language is a significant complicating factor: A single written form, significantly different from any of the spoken varieties learned natively, unites a number of sometimes divergent spoken forms. For political reasons, Arabs mostly assert that they all speak a single language, despite significant issues of mutual incomprehensibility among differing spoken versions.[69]
    From a linguistic standpoint, it is often said that the various spoken varieties of Arabic differ among each other collectively about as much as the Romance languages.[70] This is an apt comparison in a number of ways. The period of divergence from a single spoken form is similar-perhaps 1500 years for Arabic, 2000 years for the Romance languages. Also, while it is comprehensible to people from the Maghreb, a linguistically innovative variety such as Moroccan Arabic is essentially incomprehensible to Arabs from the Mashriq, much as French is incomprehensible to Spanish or Italian speakers but relatively easily learned by them. This suggests that the spoken varieties may linguistically be considered separate languages.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому

      Arabic has a stranded Language

    • @canchero724
      @canchero724 Рік тому +1

      It really is a classical Latin versus all the varieties of vulgar Latin spread out across different religions situation again. All varieties recognise MSA as their origin but they're all diverging in different directions with time

    • @muhammedozdemir306
      @muhammedozdemir306 Рік тому

      DAYI BUNU NERDEN KOPYALADIN

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому +1

      Frankly, I do not know whether you have knowledge of Arabic or not.
      But as a high school Arabi student, And I have an Akkadian dictionary, 95% of its words are understandable to us as Arabs.
      It is one of the most ancient Arabic dialects that is approximately 6,000 years old. Never mind understanding modern and contemporary dialects.
      In general, dialects may differ in the way the pronunciation is used for words. Preferring to use some vocabulary and terminology, and this is very natural given the vast geography and various social factors, but they contain many common aspects and similarities between them.
      reading and writing
      Basic rules
      Culture and heritage

  • @HaiderAlZubaidi
    @HaiderAlZubaidi 3 місяці тому +1

    Maltese is surprisingly mutually intelligible to Arabic

  • @owekaB
    @owekaB Рік тому +4

    Can I expect a video about the Swahili language?

  • @king3276
    @king3276 8 місяців тому +1

    For those amazing people who watched this video and liked it I would like to say to you in Arabic (شُكْراً عَلَى إعْجَابِكُمْ وَ أَتَمَنَّى لَكُمْ وَقْتاً رَائِعاً، دُمْتُمْ بِوِد) press translation option to see it in your language 💙

  • @yuricantu4731
    @yuricantu4731 Рік тому +3

    I'm so intrigued by that book 'The Gold of Paris', I'd love to read it but I can't find it anywhere. 😥

    • @lisamarydew
      @lisamarydew Рік тому +2

      Hey Yuri. You and me, both! You'll have to look for it under the Arabic name, but it's out of print and will be hard to find. You might be lucky, or find it in a library in one of the translated versions. It seems to have showed up under various titles.

    • @yuricantu4731
      @yuricantu4731 Рік тому

      @@lisamarydew Thank you. Yes, I noticed there were like 3 different titles.

  • @maansardast8286
    @maansardast8286 6 місяців тому

    I really liked your video. As a native Arabic speaker, I can relate to the spoken vs classical Arabic or Fusha. Dialects has always been interesting to me and 95% of the time I can tell at least from what part of the Arab world the speaker is (the country at least) only by listening to their dialect. That doesn't mean I can always understand it! In Syria for example we have at least 8 very distinctive dialects. In Jordan there are at least 5. In Palestine there are 8. I personally can detect 2 accents in Lebanon but I'm sure there are more. In Egypt (yes it is the most widely understood dialect) there are 4 that I can detect. For the other Arab countries, I can usually tell the country by dialect but can't pinpoint the city or part of that particular country. The most difficult dialects to understand for me are the North African especially if spoken fast and mixed with French as often is the case. But all dialects are lovely to listen to. I tried teaching Arabic to an American friend when I was studying in the states and the most challenging was the pronunciation of the unique letters of ض ظ ع غ ح خ and the difference between ت and ط. 😊

  • @hiteshhitesh5582
    @hiteshhitesh5582 Рік тому +6

    Please Do A Video On Telugu Language

  • @nimmira
    @nimmira Місяць тому

    Just to add: Beside the regular 3 vowel-types, 2 more had developed in the dialects as time went by (putting the art of Tajweed of Quran aside for now). So, while classical Arabic has (A, I, and U) vowels, short and long, the dialects developed the (E) and (O), also short and long. This development in part is a consequence of shortening pronunciation for some words. Example: þawr ثَوْرْ (bull), can be heard as "þór" (like "O" in "more") in various dialects (and some do change the "þ" to "t"); thus, the "-aw-" sound had been shortened to "ó". Another example: T'ayr طَيْرْ can be heard in almost all dialects as T'ér; where the "-ay-" sound had been shortened to "é" (like AI in "sail").

  • @greendro6410
    @greendro6410 Рік тому +4

    The audio isn't synced up with the video

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +3

      We had some technical difficulties. All fixed now!

  • @williamchamberlain1266
    @williamchamberlain1266 Рік тому +4

    I like your videos, but on this one the audio is badly out of sync with the video. Can you please fix this and re-post?

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +2

      We had some technical difficulties. All fixed now!

  • @unpee966
    @unpee966 4 місяці тому

    Nice video, however, i just want to correct something, Abu-al-aswad-aduali was the first one to call for the standardization of the language because many non Arab societies were making serious mistakes that affected meaning, but the first grammar book called Al-kitab was written be a Persian scholar named Sibaweh, there is a famous story about the debate that happened between Sibaweh and another scholar named Al-kasai about grammar i recommend you look it up.

  • @Hilman_Faiz
    @Hilman_Faiz 8 місяців тому

    19:16 If you heard how learning Qur'an/hadith through translated Qur'an/hadith is not good, this is why.
    Many words in arabic have specific meaning, but when translated it usually use general meaning, probably to shorten the translation

  • @truefairytale164
    @truefairytale164 Рік тому +10

    Please make a video on the reasons to learn Hindi .... It's the most underrated language ever !!!!

  • @ThePriceIsNeverRight
    @ThePriceIsNeverRight 3 місяці тому +1

    the arabs are the first "battle rappers" in history, they used to gather at a market "Souk" and diss eachother using Poems from top of their heads on the spot, some poets caused wars between tribes !

  • @ThePunisher014
    @ThePunisher014 4 місяці тому +1

    As someone who identifies to be Carthaginian, the similarities between our language (some would call it Punic) and Arabic are immense, for obvious reasons. However being from Tunisia and close to Malta, also the Maltese language sounds almost the same, friends from Malta would probably know more about the origins of their language but it wouldn’t strike me if their language was originally rooted in Carthaginian then Arabized just like the Tunisian dialect. Plus it’s a huge flex that even the ancient Arabic is not that ancient compared to our phoenician/canaanite ancestors.

    • @user-gp4sb7ul3g
      @user-gp4sb7ul3g 4 місяці тому

      والله اللغة العربية اتتى مع آدم و هي لغة سمواية

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      لم يقل العرب بأن لغتهم سماوية
      ​لا أعلم لماذا تتعمد الإساءة بأخطاء إملائية ساذجة@@user-gp4sb7ul3g

    • @ThePunisher014
      @ThePunisher014 3 місяці тому

      @@user-gp4sb7ul3g قـال تعـالى: ﴿ قَالَ يَا آدَمُ أَنبِئْهُم بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ ۖ فَلَمَّا أَنبَأَهُم بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ غَيْبَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَأَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْتُمُونَ ﴾ ممـا يفيـد أن آدم عليـه السـلام كان يتكلـم ويخاطـب غيره،ولكـن النـص القـرآني لم يشـر إلى اللغـة الـتي تكلمهـا آدم عليـه السـلام. العربية من يعرب بن قحطان وهي لغة حديثة مقارنة بالسريانية والبابلية وخاصة الفينيقية او الكنعانية.

    • @MoReal2
      @MoReal2 Місяць тому

      So do you speak carthagian ?? Or you ar just hallucinating

  • @sysyphenf8ewtfr603
    @sysyphenf8ewtfr603 Рік тому +6

    Audio and video are not in sync

  • @AbdulRahman-bi1nu
    @AbdulRahman-bi1nu 8 місяців тому

    You should look up Mehri too as a Bedouin Arab I am curious to see your opinion

  • @slimytoad1447
    @slimytoad1447 Рік тому

    I've wanted to learn modern standard arabic for many years. I know some basic maghrebi arabic

  • @user-nj3jq6yi5g
    @user-nj3jq6yi5g Рік тому +5

    معلومات خاطئه العرب تعلمو منكم الحضاره ؟؟ بل ان العرب هم من علم الغرب العلم والطب والرياضيات وغيرها الكثير واسالو شرلمان عن ساعة هارون الرشيد واسائلو الاندلس او اذهبو لها الان واسئلو عن بغداد سراء من راء مكتبة العالم في وقت مضى اتمنى تعديل معلوماتك الخاطئه وشكراً

    • @yousefshammary6329
      @yousefshammary6329 11 місяців тому

      كنا ندري الجبرعندما بالغابات

  • @yorgunsamuray
    @yorgunsamuray Рік тому +4

    You have to recalibrate the audio with the video, they do not align.

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +2

      We had some technical difficulties. All fixed now!

  • @DBoone123
    @DBoone123 10 місяців тому

    I learn too much from these videos and i start to feel like I’m in school or something lmao

  • @OrdonyFlastiny
    @OrdonyFlastiny 3 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for your effort
    Please refer to Palistine

  • @shouq1325
    @shouq1325 Рік тому +1

    23:39 ohhhh.. my name is there ^•^

  • @user-oj6qd7sh4e
    @user-oj6qd7sh4e Рік тому +4

    Please do a video on Bengali language of Bangladesh please 🇧🇩
    Bengali is 6th most spoken language in the world 😢

  • @user-rh6gp7yc9b
    @user-rh6gp7yc9b 9 місяців тому +6

    the arabic will be the first language in the world one day , its the mother of languages

    • @newaVelwali
      @newaVelwali 2 місяці тому

      it was and it will again

  • @abdurahmanmohamed4732
    @abdurahmanmohamed4732 4 місяці тому +4

    "Medieval scholars didn't bother studying other languages and comparing Arabic to them because they thought they were inferior"
    That's actually not the case.
    Muslim scholars studied Arabic to understand the word of GOD and to comprehend his commands, and since GOD spoke to us in Arabic than it was the only language that was NECESSARY to study and nail down perfectly, as it's of utmost importance to get what GOD told us right.
    In contrast, studying other languages academically wasn't as useful, since you could always ask someone to clarify what they meant if the language rules are not clear enough to you. So you could see why they would prioritize Arabic, not because they thought it was superior to other languages, but because it was indispensable. Besides, many of them studied their mother tongues on an academic level as well, so not sure why you made such a claim

  • @hasantoubasi7549
    @hasantoubasi7549 2 місяці тому

    I am a native speaker of Arabic l, I can say you presented Arabic in a good way.
    The highest form of Arabic is Quran and it’s the miracle given to prophet Mohammad who lived in the time Arabs spoke their highest form of language, but ironically Quran was even higher, and Quran challenged them to write one verse better, but they failed to do so…
    Furthermore, the short vowels identify the subjects and objects in a sentence.
    Another fact, in Arabic you can make a full sentence consists of a verb, object and more than one subject all combined in one word 🤪
    The last one, the plural form can be used to show you respect a person..
    My advice, if you want to communicate with people only learn dialects, but if you have further goals you need to consider the standard form ..

  • @amarmo3569
    @amarmo3569 Рік тому +4

    Audio is broken

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +3

      We had some technical difficulties. All fixed now!

  • @pranjalrana3457
    @pranjalrana3457 Рік тому +1

    حبيبي هم خوس حوتا هاماري لغة كي بات تشالتي أور تومكو دي صحارات ديتا 🇸🇦❤️✨

  • @donquixote3602
    @donquixote3602 10 місяців тому +1

    The old Arabs call non Arabs "ajam" which means "mute" , because they went beyond the peak of aloquence, until the Quran came down and broke their ego.

  • @bashmah3547
    @bashmah3547 Рік тому +1

    Is Arabic official in the UK?

  • @mznxbcv12345
    @mznxbcv12345 3 місяці тому +1

    Major mistake at 4:09, Old South Arabian Script is far older than both phoenician and Aramaic, infact it's the only script on that list that has been conclusively proven and shown to be the oldest by Carbon Dating. The Musnad script is the oldest, and Arabic is a direct descendant, both have 28 Letters, the other dialect continuums like Aramaiac and whatever other nonsense name people like to use have only 22.
    In addition Arabic maps (which were the first world maps ever created) had the South as UP and North as DOWN.

  • @bld.55
    @bld.55 2 місяці тому

    The story of Arab Ariba (Amalek) is mentioned only by ibn Alkalbi from Yemen in 800 AD it is his hypothesis and most of Arabic and Islamic historians disagreed with him

  • @Sandalwoodrk
    @Sandalwoodrk Рік тому +3

    And the dialects sound so different from one another too.
    I have a brother from Lebanon so I'm used to hearing that rhythm which specific to Levantine dialects
    I used to think thats just how Arabic sounds until I heard a man speaking Algerian Arabic and it sounded like a different language.

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      Hi there 👋🤗 Dialects may differ in the manner of pronunciation and pronunciation used for words and the preference for using some vocabulary and terminology, but they contain many common aspects and similarities between them.
      reading and writing
      Basic rules
      Culture and heritage

  • @ShoaibKhanZ
    @ShoaibKhanZ 3 місяці тому

    13:40 person is writing from Surah Baqarah (chapter 2 of the quran)

  • @yousefshammary6329
    @yousefshammary6329 11 місяців тому

    19:58 I think the most language according to the words

  • @auadisian
    @auadisian Рік тому +1

    The meanings of those many names of the lion are rarely known by Arabic speakers. We don't use them in our daily life, except in given names!

  • @strivingtoo7669
    @strivingtoo7669 9 місяців тому

    We have been misled by our dialects to the point we have to struggle learning the standard Arabic as a new language.

  • @KHABIB-TIME
    @KHABIB-TIME 10 місяців тому +1

    John William Draper in the "Intellectual Development of Europe"
    "I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe."

  • @shouq1325
    @shouq1325 Рік тому

    Yeah, learning spanish is easy because I learned a bit of English and my real language is Arabic, and there’s a looot of words similar to English and pronunciation the words was easy

  • @Ibnmajed
    @Ibnmajed Місяць тому +1

    تعلموا العربية الرسمية الفصيحة ،اللغة المستخمة في الاخبار و الاجتماعات الرسمية و القوانين و الثقافة بشكل عام. تعلم اللهجات لن يفيدك ثقافيا كثيرا و ستكون لهجتك محدودة جدا بالمجتمع الخاص بها

  • @eugeneboichuk
    @eugeneboichuk Рік тому +1

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @yessbbb
    @yessbbb Місяць тому

    The endgame of languages is arabic. Arabic is the first language spoken (also first written, discovered later and written in other signs as mentionned in this video). I invite you to take a look at some analysis and studies that prove arabic is the first language (most of these sources are in arabic though, but scientifically -logically and archeologicaly- proven). Arabic contains 12.6 million words, out of 30000 radicals, far behind you have aramaic with 2 million words, 8000 radicals. Other languages we know such as european languages, modern hebrew, old hebrew (not spoken, not written), asian languages all have between 200k words and 400k words. Arabic is by far the most complete, eloquent, logical, and richest language of humanity. It is also proven that all other languages derive in term of the analysis of their radicals and the distortion of sounds they experienced in history (through geographical migrations and so on), Thus once you learn arabic, reading or listening to Quran makes it very easy to believe in a Creator, who's name in arabic is الله، Allah. And Yes, the maximum level of that endgame is actually Quran, which is why we believe that Quran is a miracle. Nearly 40 years old, and still learning my mother tongue 😅

  • @aimenaymen8692
    @aimenaymen8692 9 місяців тому +1

    Actually the word Arab mean clear and bespoken but there is another word that is close to Arab mean desert dwellers which is aarab

  • @Abokhattab-alazdy
    @Abokhattab-alazdy 2 місяці тому

    I am an Arab from the heart of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula. If a person kills someone, he is sentenced to death. As soon as the killer recited a poem and expressed his remorse, he abandoned him and released him, because it is a magical language that captures hearts. Our honorable Prophet Muhammad said that the statement is truly magic. The eloquence and eloquence of the Arabs is strong, and that is why God chose it to be the language of the last heavenly book, which is the Qur’an, because the Qur’an was revealed to the entire world, and no language can speak it. Only the Arabic language understands God's universal message, which is powerful, charming, and rich in words and meanings.

  • @bhashashikkhakendro
    @bhashashikkhakendro Рік тому +4

    Can you make a vedio on Bengali language??

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +6

      thanks for the idea!

    • @bhashashikkhakendro
      @bhashashikkhakendro Рік тому +1

      ​@@storylearning Please make the next vedio on it
      I can help you in making the vedio because I am a native Bengali speaker

  • @Erumyr
    @Erumyr Місяць тому

    The oldest alphabet was the berbers alphabet which Phoenicians took from and Greek took from Phoenicians

  • @Era_Of_Awakening
    @Era_Of_Awakening Рік тому +4

    The further the Arab country is from each others the harder to understand the dialect.
    specifically in North Africa where the native language is mixt between Berber and Arabic.
    however if any Arab get exposed to any other dialect for time he will learn it fast.
    and one more thing, the ancient Arabic the one without any dots only Arabs today can't read it correctly and they don't even know how they can do it.

    • @user-D7oom
      @user-D7oom Рік тому

      غير صحيح انا اعرف خصوصا اهل الجزيره العربيه العرب الحقيقين غالبا يعرفون شمال افريقيا امازيغ متحدثين بالعربيه لهذا السبب يخطئ بعضهم

    • @Era_Of_Awakening
      @Era_Of_Awakening Рік тому

      @@user-D7oom
      للأسف تتحدث بدون دليل فأنا من شمال إفريقيا

    • @fogshadow9112
      @fogshadow9112 10 місяців тому +1

      My mother used to watch alot of Morrocan shows in Iraq. I watched one episode barely understood anything, my mom on the other hand could understand 😂😂😂

    • @uniuni8855
      @uniuni8855 9 місяців тому

      That's mostly because of french and English loan words

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam Рік тому +9

    Modern linguistics does not recognize any linguistic difference between a "language" and a "dialect": the difference between them is political or ideological, not linguistic. Mutual intelligibility, for example, does not work as a criterion. Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are mutually intelligible, but have the status of separate languages; while many "languages" have dialects which are not mutually intelligible (Arabic, Chinese, and Italian, for example).

    • @BinDerStefan
      @BinDerStefan Рік тому +4

      As the joke goes: What's the difference between a "language" and "dialect"? A language is a dialect with an army.

  • @LetoDK
    @LetoDK Рік тому

    I'm sorry, but it sounds like you have a sound gate or compressor that's set wrong, causing the vocal audio level to pump up and down. The low volume words get lowered, followed by a sharp volume rise with the next, slightly louder spoken syllable.
    I'm thinking a gate, or maybe a compressor with a slow attack and some make-up gain, and a slightly quick release.
    I enjoy your videos, but my ultra ADHD brain gets distracted by this kind of stuff 😅

  • @amineraoui
    @amineraoui 7 місяців тому +1

    اللغة العربية هي اللغة الأصلية لكل شخص ينتمي إلى الأمة العربية الخالدة عبر كل أنحاء الوطن العربي الخالد و الذي يمتد من المحيط إلى الخليج، نحن عرب و نفتخر بعروبتا. تحية طيبة من عاصمة أكبر بلد عربي من حيث المساحة و هو الجزائر.

  • @alotaibinoor9029
    @alotaibinoor9029 6 місяців тому +1

    nomadic Boudoin searching for their origins! WHAT?!! Arabs especially in Arabian Peninsula know their origin very well! Secondly, Arabic started from Makkah when prophet Ismael spoke it on the age of 14 years old! Most dialect close to classic Arabic is the dialects of Saudi Arabia since they are Arabs by race!

    • @studentofknowledge9705
      @studentofknowledge9705 3 місяці тому +1

      prophet Ishmael (pbuh) wasn’t the first to speak arabic, rather the first to herniat his tongue in Arabic and speak it eloquently; nonetheless, prophet hud (pbuh) spoke Arabic ≈ 6000 BC… and ya’rub ibn qathan was said to be the first who spoke Arabic ≈ 8062 BC.

  • @silverscrew
    @silverscrew 9 місяців тому

    Does anyone speak any of the non-arabic languages that existed on the Arabian peninsula?

  • @technologygenius1878
    @technologygenius1878 8 місяців тому

    Yeah but as a morrocan we can understand what other cuntries are sayin but they can't do the same for us because morrocan darija (morrocan dilect arab is soooo difficult)

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      Well done, and this supports the fact that it is the same language with a different pronunciation. You can imagine that I am a Levantine and, thank God, I am able to understand many Maghreb dialects. I say that the reason has to do with the skill of listening and mingling.

  • @kazhamo
    @kazhamo Рік тому

    So are all native Arabic speakers are diglossic?

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      Hello 👋 I need to say something, As a high school student, who have an Akkadian dictionary, I Find that 90% of its words are understandable to us as Arabs. Although It is one of the most ancient Arabic dialects that is approximately 6,000 years old. Never mind understanding modern and contemporary dialects.
      currently, dialects may differ in the way the pronunciation is used for words. Preferring to use some vocabulary and terminology, and this is very natural given the vast geography and various social factors, but they contain many common aspects and similarities between them.
      reading and writing
      Basic rules
      Culture and heritage 😊

    • @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh
      @RyhanMuhammad-bb2xh 4 місяці тому

      I hope you get knowledge about it, as it is an easy cuz it's etymological language with logical rules and a charming figurative language, and you have an inspiring teacher.

  • @IainMcGirr
    @IainMcGirr Рік тому +1

    Hmm sorry also Irish with the Anglo Norman becoming Anglo Irish more irish than the Irish themselves.. NOT IN ANY WAY detracting from the WONDERFUL Arabian language.. its awesome but sorry got to shout out on from both the Irish and British Isles. ... Scots Gaelic and Welsh is also cool we really didnt have a "Dark language " either.. .but I hear you Oily well done well said .. from the 3rd and later century with the fall of the Western Empire Ireland was the only place in the known world to get Education outside of the Eastern Empire.. Ireland was known as the "land of saints and scholars." Go google check etc. .. Arabric is on my list ... well done this video
    AND PS .. Ancient Irish had dots also on letters like Arabic .. it still exists for example in signs in Dingle Town in Ireland which pre dates modern Irish ... just a nod :)
    .

  • @Ryuzaki-JongUn
    @Ryuzaki-JongUn 3 місяці тому

    "There are 28 letters, they are all consonants.. where the vowels are?
    Well, there aren't any.. At least none that you can write"
    😂😂😂 You should have led with that

  • @MsNubster
    @MsNubster 18 днів тому +1

    @ollyrichards: it is a shame to see how you attempt to erase Palestine in this wonderful video! You cannot erase a country and its culture, shame on you