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Arabic Student 04/26/2020 (Sun) 18:12:34 Id: 2122c4 No. 188
Let's have a thread for learning Arabic, for our /islam/ bros and everyone else who is interested. Arabic is a Semitic language that is spoken by over 200 million native speakers in 22 countries. It's also one of the six official languages of the UN. Arabic is classified as a Level 5 difficulty language by the Foreign Service Institute, meaning that an English speaker would need 88 weeks, or 2200 hours of learning to master it. So if you want to study Arabic, you'll need a lot of time, patience, and determination - but that goes for any language. The Arabic you'll be learning is most likely going to be Modern Standard Arabic, which is the modern descendant of the 6th century Classical Arabic. Actual spoken Arabic can vary widely from this standard, however. Some varieties are mutually unintelligible, but you should be good to go anywhere with MSA. Here's some resources: >Arabic lectures https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEmWUZanVYXEzZXYDHzD-iA https://www.youtube.com/user/CGEJordan/videos >Simple Arabic short stories https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7RpCYE5gLKF3Wus9QmIXHuy4p81lpaVA >Arabic courses Online https://www.madinaharabic.com/ https://www.arabicpod101.com/
>>188 Very nice, thanks, friend. I'll make a relevant YOUCANT girl asap One question though, are there any tricks to memorizing the writing? Like, nursery rhymes, rules of thumb etc.
>>189 I don't think there's any tricks apart from practice. Maybe try writing down a chart with all the letters, then try reading Arabic with it.
>>189 >Are there any tricks to memorizing the writing? Practice and lots of practice. When I was taught it in a college course they didn't give us any special ways to remember it. It was hard at first but I got used to it. I'm shit at Arabic though.
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Peace be upon you, brothers and sisters. If you need any help with Arabic, I am here to help as it is my native tongue. To start with, the most difficult thing with Arabic would be its morphology (word structure). Arabic is a Semitic. Semitic languages are known for their Non-concatenative Morphology, this term is very important to understand and here is why: English is a concatenative language, in that, the roots of the words are mostly in tact (with a few exception). For example, to form a plural in English, one mostly just add -s at the end. So: Cat > Cats Or how to form a past tensed verb, you mostly put -(e)d after the verb, as in Play > Played But this is not the case in Arabic and the Semitic languages, oh no. The root shadjarah (tree, singular) شَجَرَة ashdjaar (tree, plural) أَشجَار Here, the root are the consonants SH-DJ-R ش-ج-ر The singular form is of the template CaCaCah, (C is for consonant), while the plural form is of aCCaaC. Templates are very important in such languages and it is best that you try to memorize them. The word tree in Arabic is in the class of nouns called "the broken plural" because vowels surround the roots differently. The same thing happens with verbs. In Arabic, verbs are classified as perfective and imperfective verbs. For example, the verb for "kill" is formed with the "kill" root, the 3 consonants q-t-l ق-ت-ل In the perfective, usually the template is to add an A after each consonant to get the template CaCaCa, so for a verb "killed", it will be: qatala = "he killed" But the imperfective has a different structure and is mostly more complex, so for he kills it will be: yaqtulu = he kills yaCCuCu Try to apply the same logic to the root for drink, SH-R-B ش-ر-ب sharaba = he drank yashrabu = he drinks Note that there are some nuances, like the template for the imperfective form of drink is yaCCaCu, instead of kill which has yaCCuCu in the imperfective. But hopefully you will get them in no time. I'll try to make another post later for verb morphology and agreement (I eat, you eat, he eats etc). May Allah ease this learning on you, anon brothers and sisters.
Verb forms, verb forms...
>>599 >you can turn place names into verbs that indicate you're moving towards them Who made this up?!
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لا يمكنك تعلم اللغة العربية
>>601 Remind me again, what is that structure to the left and is it related to a mosque?
>>602 That'd be a minaret, from which the call to prayer is given


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