My Arabic journey: why it’s been so difficult
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I have been learning Arabic since 2017 and I have to admit that it hasn't been easy. In this video you'll learn why I find Arabic so challenging and what I do to keep going despite the obstacles.
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0:00 my Arabic journey
0:33 Arabic writing system
5:02 Arabic grammar
6:17 Content in Arabic
8:52 Regional varieties
10:34 Vocabulary in Arabic
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I'm a revert, and my Arabic goals for the time being is to be able to read and recite the Quran. I've focused all my language learning during Ramadan to learning how to read the script, and so far it's going kind of well! The vowel pronunciation is the hardest for me, but all things considered i should be able to at least read the Quran (even if I can't understand it) by the end of the month, inshallah
Arabic so hard but SO worth it!
جرب طريقة ( نور البيان ) لتعلم القراءه والكتابه بطلاقه
You both can learn it!
attention seeker is here
Oh.
日本語から逃げた男😅
simpを名乗る価値はない
It's really therapeutic to see someone who's been studying languages for 50 years (?) talking about how he's struggling, especially with all the "How I learned Japanese in 4 months"-videos that keep appearing in my feed.
I think he's been at it for 15 years, after he retired. Still very inspirational though!
@@Shakki_Channel No, he hasn't been studying Arabic that long. But he has been learning foreign languages [several] for around 50 years.
You cant learn japanese in 4 months thats unrealistic and mathematically incorrect if you calculate the amounts of kanji you can learn per month. It takes 3 years to be fluent in japanese. This is if you stress yourself, dont sleep, learn 10 kanji symbols per day, dont do nothing but study japanese for whole day. Even if you managed to get the higher level in jplt which is N1 you will still not understand almost 50% of japanese language. Dont forget that iapanese is actually more difficult than arabic especially when it comes to grammar. Japanese language makes arabic language look very simple.
@@ahabrawgaming1289 Studying 24/7 and learning only 10 kanji per day is a crazy example lmao
From my experiences studying both Chinese and Japanese, anywhere between 15-35 new words per day is comfortable depending on the day. That's 70 new characters at best considering that a lot of words are compound words consisting of 2-4 characters in Japanese
I can swear to you that after you get to N1, you will not have a "50% comprehension of a language" because that's not how it works. You know the common phrases, descriptors, question words etc, and will likely only have trouble with very specific topics that can be described to you - at N1 level, they might be able to retain the information after hearing it once. Your learning speed gets faster after you pass certain thresholds, after studying the basics and after becoming intermediate.
No offense to you, and hope you don't mind the essay, but that's just another reason why "10 kanji per day for 3 years" is a terrible example. Either you've never studied a language or you are using awful methods that should be rectified ASAP.
@@rashidah9307 Ohh I see, I remembered him saying something about starting his language journey after he retired and being monolingual before that. But it might've been someone else. Thanks for clearing it up!
there is a saying regarding arabic farsi and turkish that goes " turkish starts easy and becomes hard, Farsi starts hard and becomes easy, and arabic starts hard and stays hard"
Haha I’ve been learning Turkish for a year and a half and it has never been easy, even from the beginning, so hard! 😂😂
Think about it, why are there more arabic speakers than persian and turkish speakers combined?
@@A7-yw9qr there are more arab countries than just iran and turkey? also all different dialects of arabic are still called arabic while different dialicts of turkish and farsi have different names, i.e. farsi has farsi, tajik and dari. turkish has turkish, azeri, kazakh, turkmen etc. so in reality there are more speakers than you might thik.
also arabic is the language of the quran so non arab muslims have a bigger icentive to learn arabic.
and last but not least hardest != impossible
العربية تبدأ صعبة وتصبح اصعب حتى بالنسبة للعرب
I have never heard this, but it makes sense, even though I believe that English is much harder to master.
شكراً للجهد الذي بذلته بتعلم اللغة العربية.
اللغة العربية الفصحى أجمل من اللهجات المستعملة في بلدان الوطن العربي
100%
صحيح، الفصحى اجمل و أبلغ.
@@Buhaibeho بالطبع
معك حق
بالطبع بكثير وأصعب
Hi!
I also learn Arabic,However it’s extremely hard language for Japanese like me.
It’s my goal to listen and talk with Arabic speakers.
I’ll never give it up to learn Arabic 😄
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
@@shimaaamin2591 bro you typed this in a reply
حظ موفق
Good luck
If you want i can speak With you even to be strong
دَبَبْتُ للمجدِ والساعون قد بلغوا
جَهْدَ النفوس وألقَوا دونه الأُزُرا
وكابدوا المجد حتى ملَّ أكثرُهم
وعانقَ المجدَ مَن أوفى ومَن صَبَرا
لا تحسَبِ المجدَ تمرًا أنتَ آكلُه
لن تبلغَ المجد حتى تلعَق الصَّبِرا
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اكيد
ما أجملك يا لغتي الحبيبة
بارك الله فيك لقد اقنعته بالاستمرار في تعلم العربية بأبياتك هذه 😂🤍
أنا سعيد أنك وصلت في النهاية لتحقيق شيء، أتمنى أنك استمتعت بالرحلة!
Arabic has been kicking Steve's butt! It's interesting to see the language genius struggle and figure out how to work through it.
Its an easy language even a homeless can speak it
@@ahabrawgaming1289 I guess there are too many homelessness where you live
@@guyeshel9316 It's a funny idea though, hell, I mean, even prostitutes spoke Latin and Old Chinese!
@@ahabrawgaming1289ur obviously never studied Arabicl
@@user-fayzawww yeah, obviously
Let's not talk about Pre-Islamic Arabic, it's even harder
I am a teacher of Arabic Language and I am so willing to help anyone who wants to learn Arabic. I am a native Arabic speaker. Currently, I am teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers. I teach Standard Arabic (Fusha).
Is big difference between teachings arabic lectures and Arabic language
@@fctroy7924 Teaching the language is mainly about (Grammar-Pronunciation-Morphology and Sentence structure). I am not sure about Arabic lecturing.
How should one start?
How could you teach us
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As An arabic speaker I feel lucky alhamdulillah
You are arab so you never feel how difficult the arabic language is
Its an easy language anyone can learn it
No its not its one of the hardest languages in the world@ahabrawgaming1289
Maybe you can learn Arabic but you can't talk like native Arabic also for example someone from Saudi Arabia he can't understand someone from Morocco or Tunisia @@ahabrawgaming1289
@@ahabrawgaming1289 Depends what is your native tongue
This video has tons of information for students of any language. You identify problems, give examples, show solutions you have tried, and so on.
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
تحياتي ستيف، لديك عزيمة رائعة على تعلم اللغات رغم صعوبة بعضها، أتمنى لك التوفيق
انا من اليمن .
اتكلم العربيه والانجليزيه بطلاقه وانا الان اتعلم اللغه الالمانيه لازلت اواجه بعض الصعوبات في تعلم اللغه الالمانيه
عندما ارى فيديوهاتك اشعر بالتحفيز و النشاط
اتمنى لك السعاده
Im glad you enjoy learning about Lebanon❤🇱🇧
اللغة العربية ليست صعبة بل مثلها مثل جميع اللغات اذا حاولت سوف تتعلمها، تحياتي لكم من المغرب
Good luck in your journey
It's very cute that you misspelled "journey" because "gurney" is actually the bed we are on when we enter a hospital or move around a hospital, for example from the ambulance into the emergency room. In other words, you made a word play without knowing it with the meaning that learning Arabic is very traumatic.
@@tiffanyb2713😂😂
Unfortunately mr you were learning a dialect ...
@@tiffanyb2713 😂😂😂😂
هذا رأيك لأنك عربي، لكن لا يمكنك إنكار الحقيقة. لغتنا من أصعب اللغات
New subscriber from Morocco🇲🇦. Good luck in learning Arabic. I am also learning English😊.
🎉 if you're around environment with belong English speaking then can learn early otherwise take more times
What you are doing is great, Steve. Keep going and don’t give up. Arabic is a beautiful language and deserves your effort. Greetings from Egypt❤
I love seeing people learn my native language ❤ it’s HARD y’all but the fact that you’re doing it amazes me so much¡ good luck ❤
Salam, I'm learning Arabic but I'm struggling because the "differents" Arabic (what I called Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, not dialects [even if I don't like this word]) confuse me :
How are they structured ? Is MSA really different? And depending on the "aim country", even the written Arabic (newspapers, TV, journalism) seems to be different. But I don't get it. Not yet. It is really frustrated ! I don't want to learn 'a false thing' because it would be hard in the future to fix it. That's why now I need to deeply understand the eco system of the Arabic language
Just start with MSA and when you have a solid base you can focus on those different dialects.
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
@@a.r.4707 Thank you! I'm familiar with the alphabet, now time to work on it ! :)
Not the right day but, stil, Eid Mubarak !
@@Wazkaty Eid mubarak to you too in advance😊. Where are you from by the way if you don't mind me asking?
Just what I needed. Thank you!
Mr Kaufman you are a great man . Proud that some people still acknowledge the importance of this historical language , by the way i'm from Tunisia
Great respect to you for continually challenging yourself, and taking on one of the "last bosses" of language.
التشبيه كان بمحله
تحياتي لك استاذ ستيف كاوفمان من المملكة المغربية .
Best grettings from Kingdom of Morocco from Casablanca.
Humprey Bogart still there?
😁
Greetings from Warsaw, Poland.
I'm learning Darija ;-)
@@Jsgaden Great great great !
Keep going
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Thank you so much for this vid. I think you're amazing for learning Arabic, despite how difficult it can be. I'm *Lebanese* btw. And even though that's not our only language (we've spoken many throughout our long history in this beautiful eastern Mediterranean country), it is an important language today. More power to you!
arabic is not a sea it's an ocean, it's an endless amazing journey with various destinations to explore, it's just an undying love, hard and easy at the same time you will never ever get bord by using the same words because habibi you have over 12 million word at your service.
arabic is the language of the future.👍
Arabic comes from throat like someone swilling something when they speak ugly and without p zh ch g... letter sounds words language ,it has 120000 words not 12 milion
i am a arabic native speaker nd i want to tell u that Your pronunciation is great
أنت رائع🤍
I am an Arabic native speaker, and I want to tell you that your pronunciation is great.
thanks @@Noliem1
@@user-kk3kh6ug1f You're welcome brother. 🌷
Thanks for your advice.
I wish you good health, Steve.
Great to hear your Arabic update since we spoke together 3 years ago, Steve! Glad to see you're venturing into some dialects now. شدّ حيلك!
إصرارك هذا قد حفزني لتعلم المزيد من اللغات.
Your determination inspired me to learn more languages.
تحياتي من ليبيا العربيه بالتوفيق
If Lord Steve struggles, Allah help me on my journey haha
He doesn't have your motivation, motivation is everything, wish you successfully learn it.
I feel the same. I just started and the "infinite ocean" is pretty difficult.
Don't lose your motivation, Maybe he struggles with arabic, but he did learn chinese, witch is a very difficult for many other learners, trust yourself and go ahead, if somebody else did it you can do it too, good luck
LOL
Haha you’ll do it, it’s all about input naturally
I really do support you in your learning journey and I am happy to offer you free Arabic practice sessions.
You are a great role model for all of us! Thank you!😊
I had a hard time with Arabic too. I had a relatively easy time with Turkish and Japanese which aren't even in the same family as English but Arabic has been really tough for me. Thanks for the video!
I totally understand, I struggle too, and for the exact same reasons ! It's not a language but a entire new world, we'll get it !
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
@@shimaaamin2591 I'm busy these weeks but I'll contact you later. Thanks !
May Allah guide you to the right path🤲🏻 you're so hardworking and you motivate me👍🏻
Love your enthusiasm old man keep it up 💯
Hi Steve you are an inspiration for me❤️
I am 64 yrs old Lebanese woman living in Australia I speak Arabic and English and have been learning Spanish on TH-cam for a short time, I’m loving it. You inspire me with your videos and all the languages you fluently speak. You are an awesome man and very intelligent.
What was your favourite learning language?
Keep practicing 👍😘🌹
Buena suerte
Thats great Steve! I have been learning Egyptian Arabic for almost 1 year. I have been using many sources to learn. One resource you might find useful is Al-Kitaab textbooks, which shows the Fusha, Shami, and Masri for vocabulary. Al-Kitaab also breaks down the grammar well and provides good exercises to apply the knowledge.
are you learning by yourself?
i love how determined you are good luck to you
Do your best, Steve!
رحلة عربية موفقة
تحياتي لك من مصر 🇪🇬
When i wanted your videos i feel motivated to learn languages as more as possible, thanks from libya Arabia, شكرا
Brother Steve, you're doing a great job. I greatly appreciate your approach and motivation.
I respect your honesty sir !
As a ex arabic teacher, a son of a arabic teacher and a grandson of historian arabic master and scholar I can only blame your proper circumstances and the way you discoverd and then blindly felt in love with arabic language reminding me the times when I first felt in love with Chinese language to discover that Chinese itself is divided in between mandarin and cantonese.....
...I read write and I speak 5 languages ( amazigh, arabic, french, spanish, english) i failed in learning chinese and I understand and can easily communicate with other 2 more (Italian and portugues) and the reader might be asking at this point why am I saying all this and that is because; for each language there's a circumstance situation and there's a story to tell like there's a tune for each dance or song ...making it short arabic language is like the same tune that has many different dances and what you are trying to do right now with all respect is learning how to become a choreographer in arabic instead of learning how to dance arabic...
My advices to you:
1- stop cheating on arabic ( you're wasted too much time messing up with persian language)
2-you need to read and write arabic and you need to dominate the arabic vowels or (Harakat)
3-stay away from arabic dialects and only focus in the main classic arabic you find in literature books and stay away from egyptian movies and stay away from aljazera.... and lebanese language just like the moroccan language are not language but colloquial dualects that will not serve you in reading a book in arabic ( there are +400 million Arabs speaking arabic around the world but less than 25% of them know how to read or write arabic)
4-learn how to read and write arabic
5-read and write arabic
6-read and write arabic
7-read and write arabic
8-read and write arabic
9-read and write arabic
10-read and write arabic📚
P.s.
New subscriber here and I appreciate and admire your heroism in fighting and defeating and going against all odds in learning Arabic I lost my fight against Chinese back in 2018 after 2 years of trying to self-teaching learning because of life circumstances .thanks and good luck
With regards to Chinese, there are many more than just Mandarin and Cantonese. If you look up any common Chinese character in Wiktionary and look under the Chinese pronunciations, you would find so many different pronunciations depending on which Chinese is spoken, although some only have pronunciations in Mandarin and Cantonese in Wiktionary.
@@fredrickcampbell8198
Of course there are many more dialects other than Mandarin and Cantonese...and I absolutely agree 👍
Thank you for this great advice! What you are saying is exactly what I wanted to do, but I never found such advice anywhere else. People always advise newbies to learn dialects to talk to native speakers, while I think it is easier to learn any dialect if you learn MSA first. I will stick to MSA beginner books for a long time before I try to read real news or books.
Please, do you know a good dictionnary? It could be English-Arabic, French-Arabic, or German-Arabic? I am looking for a solid dictionnary.
@samsbogh9361 best advice to learn arabic that l heard untill now
@@Emma1996able
For student of MSA, the Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic is a real gem.
If you want an English-Arabic one, there's the fourth edition by JM Cowan. Recently they published the fifth edition in its original German-Arabic.
ممتاز! خليك اعمل هيك و ان شاء الله بتتعلمها مزبوط وبتيجي على الاردن كمان مرة وبنحكي مع بعض
All the best, Samir from Jordan
An Arabic language learner from Michigan, and I have influences from Lebanese, Jordanians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Omanis, Moroccans, and Algerians, so the choice in dialect is hard to choose from because they're all so beautiful.
Thank you for the video, Steve!
no please don't learn iraqis,Moroccan and Algerian you will regret it ... I am an Egyptian and most countrys don't understand them
@@MotivSpark7As an Iraqi, I can say the same for Egyptian, no offense.
@@mohammadazad8350 بنفهمكم بس عشان بحب المحتوي العراقي ...اما الجزائري والمغربي بعيييد جدا عن العربي
@@MotivSpark7I'm not even Arab but I can understand Iraqis quite well. I have base in MSA and some Levantine dialects.
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
You have right, Arabic is very difficult. Especially for someone who is trying to learn by himself. There is a huge difference between the official Arabic and the different dialects
Arabic variations. Remember British, Jamaican and American English. As well as Quelle Québec French vs. France's French.
What huge differences are there. Most Arabs inter communicate with each other. Arab migrant workers need no translators in Arabic speaking lands.
@@onlignebridge4224 I am constantly in contact with the Arabic language and culture due to the distance between my city and an Arab country. Dialects in Arabic are not comparable to dialects in Spanish, English and French. I once met two Moroccans who couldn't understand each other, even being from the same country, just because they were from different zones. A Saudi from Saudi Arabia wouldn't be able to understand a Moroccan and vice versa. When I spoke to a Saudi about this same topic, he told me he could barely comprehend 50% of what a Moroccan was saying.
However, depending on the geography, Arabic speakers could understand each other if their respective dialects are similar (which normally coincides with the proximity of the countries where those dialects are spoken)
So no, Arabic "dialects" have nothing to do with what we know as dialects.
Egyptian Arabic is the easiest and the common dialect that any arab can understand if you spoke with
@@franciscojoserodriguezaren3094
The funny thing about your words is that, as an Arabic speaker, I have a dictionary of the Akkadian language.
You would be shocked if you knew that more than 90% of the vocabulary is used in our Arabic language.
Never mind that you are talking about easy contemporary dialects.
The problem you face is that you insist dealing with the everyday language (the dialect) as a separate language from Arabic.
Arabic is an easy etymological language
You r very great man, i bet everyone around you so proud of you
شكراً لك على هذا التحفيز الرائع ! أنت حقًا مذهل. اللغة العربية لغةٌ جميلة بالفعل ستستمع بها كثيراً وتحديداً عند قراءة الشعر والنثر. تحياتي لك وأتمنا لك التوفيق.
تُكتب أتمنى
@@modiabdullah1865 الكتابة السريعة 💔
Arabic comes from throat like someone swilling something when they speak ugly and without p zh ch g... letter sounds words language
thanks for sharing. شكرا على مشاركة تجربتك في تعلم اللغة العربية
You are a constant inspiration for me in my language learning journey. Thank you.
Hey, Steve. Your videos are a magical journey in search of the Wizard of Oz. They inspire and help all those who are also on this road. Thanks a lot.
The question mark represents a glottal sound in Arabic. Actually learning IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is quite helpful while learning pronunciation in different languages.
He's talked about that a few times and he's not a fan of it. Imagine juggling 20 languages and learning more new symbols to explain sounds. I do like the IPA just because I like to stick to fewer languages so I won't waste time trying to wrack my brain and figure them out all myself. You have to be acquainted with linguistics to understand what it means palatal reversed pulmonal explosive ejective winking yawning vowel.
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
يعطيك العافية
Thank you for sharing your struggles with us, letting us know we're not alone! I laughed out loud while watching this video cuz I've encountered exactly the same issue. I'm a Mandarin native speaker and learned Fusha on and off at the university. The writing system and the grammar have always been fun for me, but I found the same obstacle as you did that most of the content online is in Fusha and isn't helpful for communicating with real people! So now I'm living in Jordan to learn the dialect after graduating from the university. I'm in love with the Jordanian/Palestinian dialect. It's soooo lovely. My favorite textbook is Al-Kitaab, published by Georgetown University. It includes Fusha, Levantine dialect(Syrian), and Egyptian dialect.
Steve is such a model man. Growth mindset & humble
أنت حقا رائع
حقا
اللغة العربية صعبة و لكنك تعلمتها
ما شاء الله
Learning Levantine, goes to practice in Morocco. Good luck with that bro. I'm learning Portuguese so I went to Mexico...
Do you know that Portuguese is not a language spoken in Mexico, right?
@@guilhermedasilvabruner6533 do you know that Moroccan and Levantine Arabic are less mutually intelligible than Spanish and Portuguese?
@@guilhermedasilvabruner6533 I think the point that person was trying to make is that Levantine Arabic differs from Moroccan Arabic to a similar extent that Spanish differs from Portuguese...very similar, but not mutually intelligible without a lot of exposure. In other words, it can be an impossible task to learn Levantine Arabic and then speak with Moroccans. (Of course, Steve in the video said that he was also learning Standard Arabic and speaking that in Morocco as well, with those in Morocco who could understand it and humor him, so I don't think it was a complete waste.)
Great video! Lots of inspiration for motivating yourself as a language learner.
Keep at it,you'll get better
من الرائع ان اجد من يحب اللغه العربيه . اتمنى ان استطيع مساعدتك.
So disappointed in myself. To this day and for the rest of my life I will regret not learning Arabic after working in Saudi Arabia for 15 years. I have some minor excuses that just don't cut it. I did try, even did a 1 month intensive course in Cairo where I was confused the whole time between standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.I took classes on our compound and briefly at a university. Every now and then I tell myself to give it another shot even at my age of almost 70. I can read it a bit and understand it a little bit when I hear certain words, phrases, etc. Why did I want to learn Arabic, because I so wanted and still want to learn a non European language, especially a non Romance language as I speak French, Spanish, Portuguese and I'm studying Italian and German. Unfortunately I'll continue to get this feeling from time to time for the rest of my life, that I should be speaking Arabic well. Interestingly, I now often run into lots of Arabic speakers here in the US where I live very close to Detroit, Michigan. Happily, I understood everything you said in Arabic Steve. Lastly, things have changed greatly in Saudi since I left it in 2006. Sometimes I think, had I gone to other Arabic speaking countries or to Saudi since the changes, I'd be speaking Arabic now. Sorry, it would take me too long to explain that. I haven't worked on Arabic since I left Saudi. The hurt I get is intense. Sometimes I think to give Swahili a shot; supposedly it has a lot of Arabic in it. I started learning languages at 25 after a backpacking trip to Europe / Central Asia and being surrounded by multilingual people. I started with French as I thought it would help me some day in visiting Africa. Then I kept going. Learning languages and about different cultures became my passion. I got a degree in Teaching English as a second Language and l lived abroad, I'm American USA, for 25 years in a few countries Travel and languages changed my life drastically. I should have started young.
Fascinating! Well, better late than never.
Thanks for the feedback. That's what I keep hoping though it's not looking likely.@@chaoslanguagelearning
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
It is amazing how well you've picked up the language. I am a native arabic speaker and have recently been picking up Spanish. I appreciate the struggle, although learning Arabic is such a harder task.. much respect.
Love u man , u can do it ❤
My advice for you is to focus on the standard Arabic or rather the fussa.
It is the most elegant type of Arabic and you can communicate through it with all kinds of Arabic.
With time after mastering the fussa you will be able to understand almost all kinds of Arabic .
Trust me 👍🏻👍🏻 I am an Arabic
You are Arab, so this means that you learned Arabic in the exact opposite way of what you just said--first you learned your mother tongue (your dialect) and then you learned standard Arabic at school or through reading. Right? Your opinion is very common among Arabic speakers, but it's not very helpful for most learners. It is the LONG road to learning Arabic, which is why Steve switched to Levantine Arabic. Fusha is so vast that most students get lost or discouraged and never end up learning how to communicate with people in everyday life unless they move to a place where they need to speak to the people. To me, this is sad. On the other hand, if you start with a dialect, you will be able to feel the progress that you're making much quicker and you can always learn how to read and write Fusha down the road. That's what I've been doing, and I've been very successful.
@@rashidah9307 Is it really that true that fusha and arabic dialects share that many words in common? I can understand the Quranic Arabic, podcats in Fusha, the news (mostly) etc.. But when a native egyptian/lebanese/algerian speaks i only understand very basic words 'sama3a', 'sa3b','mamnu3'. Some of these words you can't even find in arabic dictionnaries online.!
@@PoorNeighbor Yes they're very different but the common standard arabic helps. As a native arabic speaker, I didn't understand egyptian movies or shows as a kid when my family watched them, but when you get some exposure you can quickly catch up because most of it is the same
*fusha
Arabs don't understand that they don't speak Arabic, they speak languages that developed from Arabic and are still called Arabic for religious purposes. Arabic and Latin were a lingua franca someday, but such as Latin was turned into the Romance languages, Arabic turned into the Arabic languages... but for some reason, people don't understand that there're no "Arabic varieties", there're Arabic languages, so you're not focusing on a Arabic variation in order to learn other variations, you're learning a language to learn its sister languages, and that's why the task to learn Arabic "variations" will be quite a task
Its alright steve, i am sure you tried your best
This is bang on. Thank you.
Keep going. As a native Arabic speaker I can tell you made good progress.
That’s why i’m so grateful for being an Arabic native speaker so i don’t have to learn it from scratch as a foreigner 😭, KEEP GOING ALPHA LANGUAGES LEARNER
Its not really difficult compared to japanese.
@@ahabrawgaming1289 no
@@ahabrawgaming1289 The difficulty of Japanese lies in memorizing a large number of kanji characters and roots, etc yet the grammar is fairly easy, on the other hand, Arabic has a small number of alphabet letters but the grammar, syntax, morphology, parsing, sentence structure, and poetry meters are quite complex.
@@NShll-sd9yw
Arabic grammar is the most logical and easiest according to the languages I know: English, French, and German.
I wonder, if I presented you with any paragraph in a language you know, would you not be able to extract
a subject,
a verb,
an object,
an adjective,
an adverb,
and a noun ? In fact, this is Arabic grammar the most magnificent thing at Arabic .
Or will your intelligence not allow you to find the subject who performed the verb, and you will not find the object that occurred? It has the verb,
it is the most beautiful thing in the language. I think there is a mistake in the educational system
انا جدا فخور لأن العربية هي لغتي الام ، اتحدث بطلاقة وبكل لهجات الدول العربية 🇩🇿
العربية مشتاقة من الآرامية والسريانية.
@@williamrovsen7841
لا تدري ولا تدري أنك لا تدري
@@user-ng1rq1ed2j ادري أو لا ادري احكيها لقريش
كلامك صحيح. لكن كسمك بكلا الاحوال
@@williamrovsen7841
@@williamrovsen7841 وانت ليش ضايج والله ياالله العربية لغة سامية وليست مشتقة من السريانية او الآرامية اللي همة ايضاً سامية والعبرية كذلك ، متعصبين للغاتكم كالعميان 😂 الحمدلله الذي عافانا مما ابتلاكم به
اصلاً لا تستطيع فهم السريانية والتمكن منها بدون العودة الى الجذور العربية ويجي يگول مشتقة من السريانية 🤦🏻♀️
It's great to see someone like you learning the Arabic language 😮😢
morrocan here keep going inchalah u will overcome all challenges hope you cover darija as well 😁
Its the most beautiful language to ever exist imho. So totally worth the struggle
It sounds absolutely awful
keep your venomous comments for you please!
@@matthewhayden6505really? I bet you haven't listened to Hebrew or German yet
@@bastetbastet Hebrew sounds similar to Arabic and German sounds cool as fuck honestly
@@matthewhayden6505 you must be kidding. Both Hebrew and Arabic are semitic languages, but definitely don't sound the same. Try to listen to Arabic poetry for instance or Arabic news bulletin, and you would get what I mean.
Keep in mind, the basic Arabic language is Classical Arabic, then dialects begin to appear.
The Egyptian dialect is completely different from the Saudi dialect, for example, and the Emirati and Jordanian dialects, and so on the rest of the Arab countries.
What you hear in Egyptian films will never be clear in Emirati films, etc.
If you want to read all Arabic resources, including news and books, focus on classical Arabic only, because all these countries understand it well.
What do you say to a Brazilian who wants to work in Arab football?
What dialect do you suggest?
@@hodair
@@hodair
بالنسبة لي ، نصيحتي سافر إلى البلد الذي ستعمل فيه بعد تعلم كلمات معدودة واختلط بالمجتمع ستجد الكل حولك يُحاول التواصل معك وتعليمك من الصغير إلى الكبير، مُجتمعاتُنا مِرحابة وكريمة بشكل يفوق الخيال، وإن تواصلت قبل السفر مع أحد من البلد التي ستزورها ممن هو يُتقِن لُغَتَك ستجد الاندماج في المجتمع وتعلم اللّغة يَسهلُ عليك كثيراً
لا تخف أبداً مجتمعاتنا طيبة بشكل لا يُصدّق سَيجتمعون حولك ويُساعدونك في التّعلم ((تصوّر إن مرض أحدنا ستجد الكل ممن يعرفه وممن لا يعرفه حوله، إن تزوج أحدنا الكل يحضر العرس سواء يعرفك أو لا يعرفك 😂،الآن نحن في رمضان الكل يتصدق ويذبح ويُوزّع الطّعام على الحارة)
Definitely khalij dialect because your going to work in khalij @@hodair
Keep it up brother
Great video Steve. I've never learnt Arabic or any of the related languages, but capturing your experiences to date in this video will surely aid other learners navigate through their challenges. 👍
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
This is making me glad I picked Japanese, lol. Arabic was on my short list, along with Russian. I guess I like harder-to-learn languages...
Japanese, Arabic, and Russian? You cray cray
Japanese has 3 alphabets and 46 characters and other diacritics etc. Arabic alphabet has 28 letters and three vowels and three main diacritics. Even the writing system is simple. In fact simper than English!! yes. compare these two characters in English and Arabic: A - ا or B ب . you can see the letter A has three lines , the Arabic A just one line !
The rest of the letters more or less the same.
at last the arab script is easy compared to japanese and Russian is very easy compare to these 2
I wonder Steve, if your teachers mentioned that there's what's informally called Middle Arabic. It's something between fusha standard Arabic and dialect /colloquial. This is easier to learn as it does away with harakat, albeit, only at the end of words, which is a great bonus even for native Arabic speakers who struggle at times with grammar. This middle language is actually works as a lingua franca among Arabs of different dialects. This what overall you hear on TV and online discussions. Let me give you some examples:
with harakat, and without harakat:
ْأُريدُ أنْ أتَعَلَّمَ اللُّغةَ العربيةَ .. اريد اتعلَّمْ اللُّغهْ العربيه I wanna learn Arabic
سأكُونُ سَعِيدأً أنْ أتَعَلَّمَ لُغاتٍ عَديدَةٍ .. راحْ/ سَأكونْ سَعيدْ انْ اتْعَلَّمْ لُغاتْ عَديدَهْ I'd be happy to learn many languages
أنا أعْتَقِدُ أنَّ عَلَيْكَ أن تُرَكِّزَ على المُحادَثةِ لا عَلى قُواعدَ النَّحوِِ .. انا اعْتَقِدْ عَليكْ ان تْرَكِّز على المُحادَثهْ لا على قواعد النَّحو
I think you'd have to focus on conversational Arabic and not on grammar
As you can see in these examples, there is no harakat on the end of words, just like in Persian. Secondly, the two styles are similar. With the middle language everybody will understand you without the need for following strict grammar rules. Then gradually you'll develop grammatical skills over time. The good thing is in Arabic unlike English for instance, there's a degree of flexibility in using the harakat which are equivalent to vowels in English. For example, you can say Sama'tu instead of Sami'tu (to hear) or Areedu instead of Ureedu (to want) or Araftu instead of Ariftu (to know) and so on. Strictly speaking, the correct haraka should be used, but hey , no big deal , even Arabs themselves make these mistakes. In Eng you can't say Geve instead of Give or wint instead of went, or worse , bitch instead of batch ! In Arabic, you can, in comparison!! Finally, I should say learning Egyptian or Levantine Arabic is not the right way. Middle lang is. Hope that helps.
Thank you for the very usefull information.
Maybe I will find a courage to start learning Arabic one day.
Greetings from Warsaw, Poland!
As an Arab, this so-called "Middle Arabic" is cursed and should not be taught (You're free to disagree). I've never heard anyone speak like that, everyone either speaks in their dialect or tries their best at standard Arabic while maybe butchering a haraka here and there.
I don't recommend this middle Arabic thing as a native speaker
نُقدِرُ مَجهودك الذي بَذلتهُ في تَعلم اللغةِ العربية ، وَنتمنى لكَ رحلة يَسيرة ومُمتعة في التعلم لأنها لغة عَظيمة.
Keep going hero
Arabic reminds me a lot of hebrew which I speak. I want to learn arabic so I can communicate with the arabs in my hometown city of Jerusalem/Al-Quds
Hebrew and Arabic are related
@@hosseinhj9056yes, also the letters are similar 👍🏽 I love arabic music too
@seanonyoutube Arabic and Hebrew are from the same linguistic group .
Can you learn me Hebrew and I will learn you Arabic ?
הערבית והעברית הם מאותה קבוצה לשונית 😅
@@hazemmohamed6858 yes happily! ❤️
@@hazemmohamed6858 yt deletes all my replies to you 😢
After some conversations with Muslims, asking them about some things in the Koran and the Hadith traditions, I found that the go-to answer to challenging questions was to say that you cannot really understand the texts unless you speak Arabic. I heard that from at least three different Muslims. So, I decided to try to learn the language. This effort lasted about 10 days, which is lame even for me.
The Quran is interesting. Many times it's very straightforward, you can translate it word for word and understand. But it's very ambiguous and unclear at other times. Most English translations add parentheses or add words or pronouns that arent in the Arabic. It's reminds me of Japanese books, when a character is speaking, often they dont say who is speaking but just have the dialogue. It's very confusing.
You definitely need either a sheikh or to read the tafsir to help understand what's going on.
@@betos-08 A lot of people aren’t aware that ellipsis is very common and actually a natural part of Classical Arabic. It’s very present in the Qur’an. But it’s also present in various texts we have from the classical era, the poetry for example and other texts.
I find this aspect fascinating personally because it requires one to think and ponder over what they’re reading. Also it makes the speech very concise.
Yeah the language has many levels fusha then standard Arabic then colloquial, you in English standard and colloquial very similar unlike Arabic which a problem and then you got fusah which the quran are written
is a whole different level only few people know the ins and outs who spend time reading and studying a lot and you can play and be creative and tricky in it with massive massive vocabulary which standard are part of and Arabs were famous for poetry and battles back then and quran is above all is the best of the best in terms of the writing and using words that's one of his proves at that time that it's master piece no one could come near to produce something like it that's why it's sometimes hard for the average person to breakdown or understand sometimes and even after that somethings have different interpretations and some you just put the obvious basic label to it and you may never get the real meaning and some to this day still discuss give some possible hidden meaning interpretation so that's why you better ask the scolars I hope you got the idea 😂
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
I recommend u muslim lantern to speak with. He is a native learned speaker
Great video! Someday I think of start to learn this beautiful language...
I taught Arabic to a doctor for one year, in private lessons, in a language school in Belgium. First, a lot of fluency activities and a lot of practice. We delved into grammar later on. He was a great learner!
If you haven't seen it already, there's an intresting video entitled "How to acquire any language NOT learn it!" by Poly-glot-a-lot that has had 4.1M views.
Starting from zero, Jeff Brown becomes fluent in Arabic in a year. As the title suggests, it's worth watching for learners of any language. He's in the Stephen Krashen / compreshensible input school.
I loved that video!
Does learning a language later in life make a difference ? No offense. Love you Steve!...you're awesome!❤
To train your brain will help you to arrive with good mental skills during your later years
I have no idea. I can only experience one learning experience. Whatever is in the present. I don't compare.
I’m glad someone like you who respects Arabic and wants to learn more about it, its the hardest language and you challenge it that makes you the strongest person 🌷🌷🇸🇦
As an arabic speaker I totally appreciate the effort you put into learning Arabic, you are very good, keep going ❤👍🏻
I think a good way to learn Arabic vocabulary and İslamic culture is to read Hadeeth (The sayings Of Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him) Books. They are generally the size of a paragraph and in a Hadeeth Books they may have thousands of them. Some books have a hadith And than its translation under it. So you have a paragraph and the meaning of the words just like LingQ. Also the fact that they divide it into different topics is helpful. Like there is a topic and 100 paragraphs about that topic. And it is easy to learn the vocabulary about that topic. I Especially advice you to read "Sahih Al Bukhari"
When you want to learn Arabic it all depends on your goals akhi. You generally need quite varied vocabulary for the daily life interactions. Hadith vocabulary will help you more with religious literature and classical Arabic. Many of those words are not used nowadays among Arabs in their daily interactions necessarily. If you learn Arabic first and then you read the hadith collections explained by the Muslim scholars, past and contemporary, you will get good grasp of literary classical Arabic in general. It might not help you that much in speaking though unless you are giving a khutba or some islamic lesson.
Thank you for choosing Lebanese Arabic ❤🇱🇧
Really like seeing your data progression at 4:00 you should show it for more things!
Arabic script is easier than English. Yes it is. Look at this:
A a أ In Eng you draw 3 lines to write A while in Arabic just one straight line أ ا
B b ب To write B b you draw 1 or 2 half circles and a line, while in Arabic all you need to write b is draw a dish or a canoe :) ! same thing with most of the letters.
D d د
G g ج
N n ن
but when you merge the Arabic letter initial, middle, final positions, it changes shapes and you gotta know how one letter changes shape upon another letter
Steve,, I wrote a comment on my failure to learn Arabic despite living in Saudi Arabia. I've been thinking about Arabic since then and I remembered a class I'd heard about. You might want to check out Middlebury Language classes which are very intensive and of course they offer Arabic. The classes are not cheap but many attest to their quality. That said, I imagine you've already heard of these classes. Good luck, love your blog.
I respect your noble efforts to have this experience seriously. I am Arabic speaker who works hard to learn more foreign languages. Kind regards.
Thank you god for making me a native Arabic speaker.
Oh Steve, I am really happy you posted this. This was such a good video. I’m learning Persian (among other languages) and it’s really motivating to see you learning it too. I tried to experiment with Arabic last month, just to get a taste of it and I was quickly humbled by how difficult even trying a little bit was. But I know if you can do it, I can figure it out too. So U am rooting for you!!!!!
Dear Steve and all your great followers, I am a native Arabic speaker (Egyptian), I teach both languages English and Arabic for South Africans and Europeans. I teach standard Arabic parallel to slang Arabic through 4 levels of difficulties. Standard Arabic is important to understand Qur'an, books, and poetries, however, slang Arabic is important to communicate with us (Arabs), because we speak slang Arabic not the standard Arabic anymore. My strategy is starting with the very basic sounds to produce words in Arabic, then we keep going to speak Arabic for some time through real experiences in life, like cooking together in the kitchen, or have our online lesson while we are walking at morning to describe our great environment in Arabic (This how we teach babies how to speak in any language through experiences, real experiences)..... When I see that my students are comfortable enough to start making a sentence of 3 to 4 words, I go with them to the second level which is reading and writing using Montessori philosophy teaching in language (in order to feel the letters). Our third level is more complicated which is learning Grammar, eishhhh I know it is difficult in Arabic, but again I use Montessori way to make it more understandable and sensorial. The last stage is when you express yourself, in speaking and writing. Then you are an Arab... It is a long journey though... Almost 6 years of effort and time... like babies when they learn any language... they only listen for a whole year, only after a year they start producing some sounds, after three years, they say a sentence of 3 to 4 words. But after 6 years they can express themselves very well.
Herein, I am offering you and your followers, 2 free online sessions to get to know my strategy of teaching Arabic.... Hope to see you soon, contact me on WhatsApp if you are interested +27843851200.
I commend your motivation, sir!
LOL Steve you had me laughing through this entire video. Lord help me if I ever try learning this language! This video has so many great tips. If I ever decide to learn Arabic, I'll be sure to come back to this.
Hi Kaufmann,
This video is very much motivating than any video I see in youTube because I am also facing the same that you are facing. I know 5 languages including English and I am fluent in that language but this Arabic alone is very difficult for me to learn because I have already done 25 years research into the language, studied in dedicated classes in my locality and also moved to Arabic country and stayed there, observing what they are doing but still I can't learn them mainly because of the obstacles you posted especially different regional dialects and need to do without harakah reading. But sill I am continuing to explore the language especially through Quran and this video is very much motivational and thank you for it. God bless you.