How to Learn Arabic from Scratch - A Roadmap
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- 📘 Resources to check out:
STAGE 1 - Learning the Arabic Alphabet:
- Arabic Alphabet Course (with audio for pronunciation): www.learnarabi...
- UA-cam Video on Arabic Letters: • Learn Arabic Alphabet ...
STAGE 2 - Foundation in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA):
- Al-Kitaab: popular textbook which we also used at Cambridge, though I think a bit boring and slow, particularly for self-study. amzn.eu/d/9LzpIIp
- Deheuvels Arabe Moderne: A straightforward and quick-progress textbook we used at the Sorbonne, great for French speakers. amzn.eu/d/58fmYld
- Mastering Arabic: A good self-study option, accessible for beginners. www.bloomsbury...
- All the Arabic You Never Learned the First Time Around: For any grammar points you want to check or for grammar nerds to read through - genuinely the best explanations for most Arabic grammar-related concepts are found here IMO, free downloadable PDF. allthearabicyo...
- 1-on-1 Arabic lessons: I haven't used this myself but I have some friends who have. preply.com/
STAGE 3 - Learning Dialect for Immersion:
- Tandem Language Exchange App: Connect with native speakers for practice. www.tandem.net/
- 1-on-1 Dialect lessons: You can also find those on preply. preply.com/
- ArabAcademy: Online Egyptian dialect course and/or lessons. www.arabacadem...
This is how I would approach learning Arabic from scratch - I've left some links to resources in the description for each stage so do check those out if you're not sure where to get started :)
Thanks man, I’ve been needing to strengthen my grammar, really nice video and resources
How long would it take to start speaking and understanding Arabic for basic conversations. I am moving to the middle east and want to learn arabic to survive.
To everyone who wants to learn arabic, I just want to tell you that arabic is one of the most beautiful languages to exist, it will open doors for you to heaven and to a magical extraordinary world and a rich culture (despite all the stereotypes you hear)
I' m an a native Arabic speaker
and l agree with you completely
Keep it up brother قاسم!
JazakaAllah for making this video. I'm just halfway through it but the ease with which you are explaining is making me more motivated to learn it now
Take off the music pls it’s noisy
Why?!? One hears everything, clearly! His voice is louder than the background music!
@@samantarmaxammadsaciid5156 i know but still noisy
Also haram😥
@@AbuInayaAl-Athari-po3yj
Why? This music at the background doesn't express anything indecent to the Muslim ears! So, to comment it's Ḥaraam is misconstrued!
@seadeahyun
If the musical instrument is bad, in case one should not train physically to be an athletic to earn money and fame, or train one's body to be fit only health wise but to look good!
So, you're wrong to say that's what Rasuulu-LLaahi and Nabii’u-LLaahi said or did as all are according to men's nonfactual, gibberish narratives written down!
Great advice, biggest regret is wasting too much time with transliteration
جميل، تحياتي من مصر
As someone who is learning Arabic with previously no exposure to the language at all and later married into an Arab family. I started off learning Levantine Arabic because SO MANY PEOPLE recommend staying away from fusha.
However, after having learned Fusha and being exposed to different dialects, I have so much better of an understanding of Arabic, including the dialects, as a whole.
So glad to see you recommending this since I think so many people advise against it.
برااااافووو 👏🏻
Your experience is so interesting to me because mine has been the opposite. At the beginning of my Arabic journey, I had SO MANY Arab friends and acquaintances insist that I had to study Fusha first (even though this is, of course, not how they themselves learned to speak and read). I have a theory that the advice an Arabic learner receives depends on a number of factors, including the religion of the learner and the person giving advice, the cultural background of the learner, the attitude of the person giving advice towards the dialects (whether they consider them real languages), the educational level of the person giving advice, and where the Arabic learner lives (inside or outside the Middle East). As an American Christian, the vast majority of my Arab Muslim friends (and Arabic teachers and Arabs in the UA-cam comment section) insisted that I must learn Fusha first, as, to them, this is REAL Arabic and the language of Allah. Christian Arabs, from my experience, don't share this attitude, although, of course, their Bible is in Fusha and their church services are a hybrid of Fusha and Ammiyah. I do plan to learn some Fusha, but my primary goal is to be able to speak, understand verbal and text messages, and be able to serve refugees from places like Syria.
اهلا أتعلم اللغة العربية أيضا لكن أعتقد عند هذا فيديو خطئا، you're supposed to say "how I learn Arabic in 6 months" like other videos. Lol nice video thank you for this video I feel like people make is seem like to learn in language It only takes you a few months instead of maybe like you said 5 years for you. Of course you can do it in a year and less than five definitely. But for the average person, 5 years is reasonable.
hahaha - thanks a lot man! Yeah I agree, can definitely do significant learning in shorter time frames, so it really does depend on your goals :) Ofc the university degree is kind of different, lots of language stuff, then other modules like history, classical Arabic, modern Arabic literature etc - but bear in mind that's also full time with time abroad too. But for most people to learn any language well it is going to take time tbh IMO. Appreciate your thoughts and glad you enjoyed the video 🙏
For an average person, I would say 10 years.
@@protostar100020 or 30 more realistic. Some would say 40.
Qasim, thank you for this video; it's very inspiring and interesting to hear your perspective! I WISH that I could go to the Middle East for 6 months (or even for a month!) and immerse myself in the language, but I'm not a single twenty-something. Lol. I have made two short trips to the Middle East, and I really saw the benefits of even 2 weeks of speaking Arabic throughout the day every day. Thanks for pointing out that that's not realistic or even necessary for everyone. Many people in the West underestimate the size of the Arabic-speaking population in their own cities. I've found, for instance, that through volunteer work with refugee families from the Middle East, there are MANY opportunities to help people in your community who don't know the language or the culture AND make Arabic a part of your regular life. I love what you said about the importance of the dialects for connecting with the people and the culture(s). For this reason, some people (especially extroverts like me whose primary motivation for doing the grinding work of studying is connection) are better off to start with a dialect so that the language can become meaningful and alive for them and they don't give up on the language before they get to some of the cool stuff. Learning a dialect, of course, still involves learning the alphabet, learning how to read (as transcripts and subtitles will be in Arabic script), and learning how to spell (especially if you have friends or language exchange partners that you text with). And I highly recommend teaching platforms like iTalki for learning Arabic in a way that suits your personal goals, schedule, and budget. I look forward to watching more of your videos!
No add music, it’s distracting
Being a native is such a privilege 🙌
Agree.
Thinking it every single day. Trust me you are blessed
Commenting for the algorithm! Loved this video :) I'd love to learn Levantine Arabic - it might be the next language on my list!
Thanks for dropping a comment, I appreciate it! 😊 So glad you enjoyed the video! Levantine Arabic is an awesome choice tbh I agree. You sound like you already know quite a few languages haha so I'm sure you've got this 💪 🚀
اللغه العربيه مثل أي لغه تتطلب الممارسه والاستمراريه
i just want to understand quran don't care much about people.
I also try to learn Arabic just for understand Quran
اللهم بارك، الله يفتح لكم يا رب
Qasim: "I spent 5+ years studying Arabic full time"
Me: *quits*
Oh yeah. Good news is that because of the verb forms and root system someone at a b1 level can know how to pronounce 80-90 % of written words but there are always random nouns or form 1 verbs whose pronunciation they might have to look up in a muajam but if they’re at that point suddenly the way they study and practice is the same way they’re going to be looking up words at c2 years from now albeit less frequently. That’s me right now I’m at probably b1 and it’s a very long journey from here but it’s also straightforward
Yeah exactly, there's definitely a certain point that once you get up to, things get easier and its just about more exposure and more studying and practice - that's my experience anyway. For sure, even at c2 it's still going to be the same process! It's definitely rewarding though - keep going and good luck :D
Great video. I am already at stage 2. Workbook are hard ( I am using practice makes perfect) but lots of fun.
I agree that reading without the short vowels is one of the biggest challenges.
You can't know how to read a word that you haven't encountered before.
But it's actually kind of the same in English since there are no consistent rules of spelling or pronunciation.
I also agree that learning a dialect is essential to communicate with arabs.
I hope you'll go back to learning Syrian soon! 😂❤
تعلمت اللغة العربية و العلوم الشرعية في ثماني سنوات في إحدي المدارس الهندية، ومازلت أحسنها ، من وجهة نظري ان يعلم المتعلم أن ايّ لغة لها اربعة جوانب .
اولا: الاستماع ،هذا من اصعب جوانب اللغة .على المتعلم ان يكثر الاستماع كي يتدرب الدماغ على اللغة العربية .هذا الشيء الذي ينتج القراءة و التحدث.
ثانيا :التحدث،الاستماع يقوي التحدث
ثالثا:القراءة ،علي المتعلم ان يعلم بعض القواعد العربية .ويُكِثر قراءة الاخبار والمجلات
رابعا :الكتابة ،علي الكاتب ان يعلم قواعد الكتابة و يمارس صفحة في اليوم.
لابد ان يعلم أن الاستماع والقراءة أساس اللغة ، يقال ايضا التلقي . إذا كان التلقي قويا يكون المتعلم قويا في إلانتاج. والانتاج هي التحدث والكتابة.
أما اللغة العامية(Regional dilect) فلاحاجة لها ، إن تريدها فسافر إلي أماكن التي تريد تعلّمَها العامية.
Do you have any listening material recommendations? Thanks.
@@adralia8166 yes I recommend you to listin alzajerra arabic news, Dw arabic docmentry , almaidan for alzajerra , ashraq docementry. These channels are very useful for listening and I request to read description of alzajerra and dw.
شكرًا جزيلًا على هذه المعلومات القيمة! فعلاً، تعلم اللغة العربية يحتاج إلى الكثير من الجهد والممارسة في الاستماع والقراءة والكتابة. أقدر تعليقك على الفيديو وأعتقد أن هذه نصيحة رائعة. شكرًا مرة أخرى لدعمك! 😊💪
i don't now why im watching this video while im already speaking arabic 😂
You learned or your native language
Can you help me?
I'm also native speaker Arabic @@asrafulhudaridwan4562
نفس وضعي احس بالفخر وانا اتكلم وهم يتعلمون
@@무니라-t2su weird af ngl
Why @@rithwikreddy5967
Peace be to you (Assalamualaikum)! I can read Quran but don't know what it is saying. However, with slow, CONSISTENT effort, I am getting there, insha'Allah! I greatly appreciate your insight. I just subscribed to your channel. ☺️👋🏽👨🏽⚕️
Wa alaykum assalaam - Thanks a lot for your support 🙏 Inshallah you can definitely get there - consistency is key as you say. I'm planning to make another video sometime soon on how to optimise learning for understanding the Quran - hopefully that will be useful to some people. If there is something else you'd like to see me cover just let me know :)
@@QasimRazviArabic I will, insha'Allah.
Plz don't use music in your videos 😊
why
@@ahnafzaheen6593 it's haram
@@-he6i if its haram then dont watch it. this isnt a islamic video
Great job, Arabic is a very hard language to learn and I feel privaleged being born with it
What does studying a language full time mean? 37hrs/week for 5 years?
It would be better if there was no music. Nice video!
why
@@ahnafzaheen6593 because its haram
@@Ali-hy7pr he talking about learning arabic language not Islamic hadiths
@@ahnafzaheen6593 music still haram in all cases at every second every minute every hour every day and year of this earth's existence
@@Ali-hy7pr he is not muslim
There is a big difference between Arabic and Quranic Arabic
If you want to understand the Book of ALLAH
Learn Quranic Arabic
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As a total beginner who wants to become fluent in Arabic, you have answered all my questions about learning Arabic! Thanks 👍🏻
Happy to hear that! Any other questions you have, just let me know 💪😅
Hey thanks! Im a language major also, what sort of jobs are you anticipating you’ll get with your degree?
Music is annoying
3:50 for natives is quite the opposite I tend to slow down to read with vowels (harakat) since most time when it's written it indicate this is not the common sounding one
If a girl needs to learn Arabic as it is my mother tongue, perhaps I can help
@@stranger4478 How would you like to communicate?
@@stranger4478 But how can we communicate?
@@stranger4478 If you are really a girl But is it your Instagram account name and what is the picture?
@@Malak-hk2pf @stranger447 - telegrm
@@Malak-hk2pf comments r getting deleted. T E L E G R A M ?
such a high quality video brother, all the best. جزاك اللهُ خيرًا
Thank a lot bro! جزاك اللهُ خيرًا for your kind words and support. 🙏
as a native speaker, I recommend learning Arabic in Fusha (formal) then a dialect of one of the gulf countries rather than North African ones
I agree that reading without the short vowels is one of the biggest challenges.
You can't know how to read a word that you haven't encountered before.
But it's actually kind of the same in English since there are no consistent rules of spelling or pronunciation.
I also agree that learning a dialect is essential to communicate with arabs.
I hope you'll go back to learning Syrian soon! 😂❤
Wow! Great video ‘Asim. I basically agree with every single point. Best regards /Erik from Arabeya
Wow Erik - this is insane!!! Crazy you found this video 😂 Long time no speak and great to hear from you! Glad a fellow Arabist sees things the same way ;)
If someone wants to practice arabic l can help and improve my english too
You should have a lot more Subscribers - Keep pushing.
Thanks so much for this, means a lot 😊💪
انا فخورة بك جدا يا قاسم انا مدرستك الاولى في مصر اسراء
bad video more into showoff stuff and everything is not good for studying feel like waste of time
What do you think about books like the medinah books and Baynah yadayk for beginners
good video
i think for someone coming to an arabic country won't help him much because especially in the gulf countries people speak in a different dialect with non-arabs than arabs, with there friends and with old relatives or older generations
From Bangladesh ❤
Do you want to learn Arabic?
Good luck with ق and خ 😂❤
حرفيا أصعب الحروف في اللغه العربيه هي ال ع ولا ض او غ
K and h are pretty easy, ق is a k, but deeper in throat, and خ is like a French r, but silent. Actually, the letter I was stucked on is ع. First time that I was trying to say it - I wanted to puke, it was really hard to say it first time.
Arabic is the mother of languages, it's amazingly structured.
Thank you for your video. What books do you recommend for learning Egyptian Arabic dialect?
I'm glad you appreciated it - thank you for your comment! The book we used to refer to sometimes when I was in Egypt was "Kallimni Arabi" by Samia Louis - from my memory it wasn't really a self-study book though , but it did have some useful exercises/lessons. If you already know some MSA you probably could manage to go through it though and find it useful. Across all the volumes it does cover a decent level
Thats great, thanks for your advice 😊
the thing is... learning darija is hard cuz they speak arabic english and french.
edit: im native french speaker and understand english fluently but the moroccans i tried to speak to just switch to either one
How do you only have 1k subs! You deserve way more. Subscribed!
Thanks a lot bro - appreciate it 😃 💪
I feel proud because I am Arab and I have no rules or basics that I applied to the Arabs because they are difficult. Thank God I am a single Arab Muslim. ❤❤❤
وليش كاتب سنقل ؟
what is your ethnicity?
U muslim
(Just curious)
I have no interest in reading the Quran, but I'd like to watch and read the arabic media, so I'll try to start with classic arabic
Nice one! Think you probably mean MSA for media Arabic? :) For media Arabic I studied this book: 'Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News' aucpress.com/9789774166525/ . It was actually really good and I liked it so worth checking out IMO
@@QasimRazviArabic Thanks for the recommendation
شكرا لك
Thank you for sharing this! After learning Fusha for a couple of years, I finally got the chance to visit Jordan last month and realized what I learned is not that useful as I expected since I don’t understand what people in the streets are talking about and this is really discouraging for my learning. After watching this video, I just realized that I’ve always been ignoring the importance of Amiyya. I guess I might need to work on it more…
You are right with every thing, Reading is very important to start with, and some students are in rush and they want to start learning conversation without learning reading and that not good in Arabic as pronunciation depends on what you see, and sometimes it's different depending on the position of the word inside the sentences, or if you stop on this word or continuing, and so on.
also, MSA is very important at the beginning even if you want to start a dialect, as it helps you to build foundation and understanding the idea of the language, and Arabic culture too. also it makes learning dialects easier as all dialects come from the same root which is Arabic.
also, learning with a native professional teacher who knows how teach Arabic as a second language it helps a lot and save more time.
but here something until now I haven't found any mobile apps are useful in Arabic and their methods not organized and make a load on students as they give them a lot of grammar and conjugations and these should be built step by step
Free Palestine 🇵🇸🤍
please dont add music, hurts the ears
Agreed
While I agree, he’s likely not Muslim which is likely the reason you don’t want music and he’s not catering this video to Muslims he’s catering towards those who want to learn Arabic
@Tylersmith-xq2sx I believe he is Muslim, Qassim is a Muslim name
@@Tylersmith-xq2sxit’s not about being Muslim or not, the music is really distracting, it hardly sounds like background anymore.
@@Uthmanniejust because someone name is arabic doesnt mean they are muslim, here in indonesia and alot of SEA nation we have native name and we are muslim
Hey bro you want to hire a Thumbnail Designer?
music is haraam
Well done ❤
Can't lie this is a very good level at arabic but you can be spotted by an arab easily
مثلا مفيش لهجة بتبدأ كلامها ب أهلا يا أصحابي
The music gets in the way of the video. Turn down the volume. It should be background and not compete with your discussion.
شكلي وانا داخلة اشوف الاجانب كيف بتعلمو عربي 😂
جاني إحساس حلو لاني بتكلم عربي كلغة أم 😩👍
How foul
@@xerxes-9o8kw What do you mean?🗿
I really can imagine how that was so difficult
Good for you ❤
Thank you!
Another week, another banger video 🔥
what is your pfp
You motivated me to learn grammar because there are lots of resources on the internet but which chapter should I start with?
Nice video
انصح بتعلم اللهجة السعودية لأنها واضحة ، والسعوديين ينطقون كل الحروف العربية
شكراً على تعليقك، فعلاً اللهجة السعودية واضحة جداً! ومع ذلك، في الفيديو ذكرت أن اللهجة المصرية ربما تكون الأفضل للتعلم بسبب كثرة الموارد المتاحة وانتشارها الواسع. لكن بالنهاية، أي لهجة ستتعلمها ستضيف لك الكثير. بالتوفيق في رحلتك اللغوية! 😊
@@QasimRazviArabic إذا كنت تريد قراءة القران الكريم فاللهجة السعودية افضل لأن المصرية لا ينطقون الجيم والذال والضاد وغيرها من الحروف وأنا أتكلم العربية لأني سعودية وانطق كل الحروف نطقاً صحيح
اللهجة السعودية جميلة
good
yo bro what do u think of madinah arabic book 1-3?
Yo man - solid books imo, I've actually got all 3 but never fully gone through them page by page myself. But from what I've seen they are clear & well structured - if you can get into them then they'll deffo take you to a good upper intermediate level I think :)
@@QasimRazviArabic Noted. Thanks, man. 💯💯
No problem bro! You got this 💪
Any book for a specific dialect
Don’t take the music off.
Can you give an advice with learning classical arabic?
If you Muslim you have to learn classical Arabic as a Arabian I can help you if were girl
@@무니라-t2sis Medina arabic like Classical Arabic?
@@Acidfrogs yes
@@무니라-t2s I am a muslim from bosnia, I don't speak arabic. I am a man, not a girl. But jazak Allah khair for intentions
Cool video
Dont trust no one who says dont learn fusha
Is this me? I don't get it 😂
Lovely video brother
Thank you so much 😀
Wow
Don't use music in your videos!
Music is haraam.
Lol
👏👏👏👏👏
برافو عليك 🌺🌺🌺
🙏 شكراً جزيلاً لك على دعمك
"brafou"
God, I love Arabic
This channel is extremely perfect!!
Thanks so much :D
Why to just study the Quran? The Middle East is the home of Christianity and the Bible. Don’t generalise Arabic to being just a “muslim” language.
بس القرآن هو الوحيد الذي انزل باللغة العربية، الانجيل انزل في الشرق الاوسط لكن ما كان عربي
I think I'm not from this world, man! I did in 6 months what you did in 5 years. How did I do? I got a friend to talk to
How long did it take you to become fluent in Arabic?
You have to live in Arab countries, it will be easy, and you can also speak fluently
Hard to say an exact number tbh and hard to define at what point 'fluent' is - but I would say that by the time I was speaking Egyptian Arabic pretty fluently and felt comfortable I had spent 3 years studying fusha full-time and had spent 6 months actually in Egypt going to classes and speaking loads. I think its very dependent on how much you practise though. I practised a lot. I know people who spent a year in Egypt and went to classes etc but didn't end up speaking very well at all. However, with some fusha knowledge already, and practising dialect as much as you can & classes you can be at a good level in 6 months to a year IMO
Arabic died hundreds of years ago . You’re learning a highly mutated form of it. Go read up.
No you are wrong mate, Arabic is very much alive in our daily lives, a lot more than Hebrew was in the life of the Jews until its revival.
No, fus7a is 99% like old arabic
عموما اللغة العربية هي اللغة الوحيدة التي يمكن للناطقين بها فهم نص مكتوب قبل ألف سنة
Please remove music , it's Haram 😢
How to learn Arabic, BUT which dialect exactly...🥱🥱🤔
Please teach us arabic....plssssssssssss🥲🥲🥲😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
More coming soon 😊📚 Some general language learning stuff and more Arabic specific stuff ofc
Hello every one I'm Arabic native speaker and I want to learn English if Any one need to exchange I'm ready
اريد تعلم اللغة الانجليزية لكن لا املك شخص لممارستها معه❤️🩹
I learn English but i don't have a persone for practicing it
Hey we can practice together I'm learning English too
@@Imenlifestyle yes we can but where??
من الرائع أنك ترغبين في ممارسة اللغة الإنجليزية!
You could try one of the language exchange platforms like Tandem or HelloTalk or something 😊
@@QasimRazviArabic ok thank you i will try it💕💕
I want to learn Arabic 🥲 want to practice together? Please let me know!