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I started learning the alphabet with 'The Arabic Alphabet' by Nicholas Awde & Putros Samano, which I think is good. I am now working through 'Read and Write Arabic Script' by Mourad Diouri. I am having great difficulty reading some of the script which is so small that I have to use a magnifying glass to see all the detail. You recommend the Kallimni series, but when I read the reviews on Amazon I was disappointed to find these books are intended for teachers of Arabic teaching students. Could you please recommend a beginner's book for self-study, with script that is as large and clear enough as Awde & Samano's book? Thank you. He makes that very point about Modern Standard Arabic.
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And it’s harder because outside of rather stilted sessions with a teacher, there’s no real context in which to practice it, because nobody actually speaks it as their first language. Everyone has a different learning style but I know for me, the most effective thing is to get a basic handle on grammar and structure (maybe very basic) and some vocabulary and throw myself into the pool, put myself into situations where I have to use what I know and build on that.
If you learn in the context of real life, events and situations, you have a much richer web of associations around new words and grammatical points, and are much more likely to assimilate them, than if you are trying to just learn vocabulary from a list or memorize grammar rules.Think about how you learned your own language: You first learned to speak, to hear the language. You never studied grammar, you just assimilated it. Later you went to school and learned the written form of your language, which is always different from spoken. So even if your goal is to learn MSA, you’ll have a much easier time if you already have a dialect “installed”. Chris, I'm also one of those who are against trasliteration, I leanrt it because of my experience. Transliteration at the beginning looks simple and really helpfull, but it can have a really negative effect.
Normally when we use translitetarion (specially in languagues with a different writing system than latin). When people see transliteration, most of the people's used to focus on the equivalent sound in their mother tongue. Transliteration most of the times makes people pronounce like if it were their same language. As result you are talking whatever but not the language you are learning.
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I was lucky that all my teachers prohibited us to write pronounciation, it help us to get the real pronounciation of words and be focused in the pronounciation of each word since the beginning. For example, In chinese transliteration uses letters than j/q/z/c etc and for real it has nothing similar with the real sound. Nobody understand it.
Talking about arabic, transliteration was prohibided. Because there many sounds that for our languages is the same thing. But in arabic there's diferences between those letters and you have to master that differences.
So you must pay attention o each special sound. About vowels, all texts for beginners use short vowels. What we did in class, after of each lesson we should be able to recognise and read all the words without vowels. Then it depends on you to find a method to remember all words and to know which vowels are into the word and where's the accent.
As a trainer for Arabic Language as a second language I recommend to the learners' Kalimni Arabic series', one of the best colloquial courses in Arabic for non native speakers, Samia Louis focused on how to help the learners to build their language infrastructure through a systematic easy grammar, till the moment no other Arabic course material as AFL can compete only if it is in Classical Arabic. Samia Louis have post the best reliable course for Arabic according to her experience as a teacher, she knows how to deal with subject matter. Hi Leanne.It depends what you're looking for.
Are you just after books for Levantine Arabic?If all you're after is conversational Levantine Arabic, then the best advice I can give you is to use a tool like italki – – and connect with a native speaker.There are a few Arabic teachers on the site from Jordan, Syria and Palestine for around $6 an hour – compare that to what you'd pay for an expensive book or a course and it's insanely good value. You'll learn more from a one hour session with one of those guys then you will from any textbook.If you still want advice on which books to use I'm happy to help. Best of luck! Thanks for all your tips. I'm taking Arabic 2 now. This is my teacher's first year teaching, so she started us in Arabic 1 and now 2 with no book at all. She just gives us handouts, but I would really like a book to reference and study on my own as well.
Our focus is MSA.Our teacher has recently discovered a book called, ' Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic' by Bassam K. Frangieh, and she says it is probably what she will use next year to teach Arabic 1 & 2. Do you have any experience with this book good or bad?. Hi Donovan,I have little prior knowledge of Arabic – I know the alfabet and can read and write words, although slowly and only superficially, as I haven't practised any vocabulary.
I want to get to a lower intermediate level in modern standard Arabic before starting on the Kallimni books. I prefer to self study and have been looking at the Mastering Arabic 1 & 2 books by Wightwick and Gaafar. Do you have any experience with this study program? If any of the other readers would like to give advice regarding this, please do.
It would be greatly appreciated.Best regards,Stine. Hello, I am living in the Turkish Republic. My country has been hit hard by the Syrian refugee crisis, having received almost two million Syrians. Some of the refrugees are living in camps, while others left those camps to seek employment in cities.
Those who are skilled workers are doing relatively fine. Regrettably, thousands of less-capable Syrian men and women are reduced to begging in the streets.The language barrier is difficult to overcome for those people. While Turkish contains a large number of Arabic loanwords, it is gramatically unrelated to Arabic. We also pronounce Arabic words differently or assign new meanings to them (think of Greek loanwords in English); which makes it impossible for Arabs to communicate with us.Our government hopes that once the Syrian civil war is over, the refugees will simply return to their homeland.
I suspect that those displaced by war will remain displaced; that we have to accept Syrians as a fact of life. My country is good at absorbing large numbers of migrants: During the 19th century and the early 20th, millions of people fled Crimea, the Caucasus and the Balkan Peninsula to settle in Anatolia.I want to learn some Arabic, and this ‘Kalimni Arabi’ series that you recommend looks interesting. But appearantly it teaches Egyptian, not Syrian, Arabic. I heard that is is difficult for someone who only studies Egyptian to understand a Syrian person’s speech. Should I go with this series; or is there another book, better suited to someone who wants to communicate with Syrians, that you’d like to recommend to me?.
Donovan,I regularly read your blog and enjoy the contributions you have made to my arabic learning experience. However, this particular article left me a little disappointed.Let me explain.
My boyfriend is just starting out with arabic; he knows the arabic alphabet and has a rudimentary vocabulary. Based on your glowing reviews, he purchased the Kalimni series. When it arrived, we both checked out the book but found it impenetrable. I have been studying arabic for a year and would put myself at Advanced Beginning. Why is there so little direction for the book? Where to begin?
The text is overwhelming. I wish there had been more detail, so that we could avoid what has become a regretful purchase. I can’t help but wonder if you have even looked at the beginner book for the series as it does not seem suited for a beginner at all.Donovan, I have come to put a lot of stock in your opinion on resources and on language-learning in general. Thank you for being one of the rare resources on the internet for Arabic and putting out quality content. My comment comes off harsh, but I mean it more as advice to other visitors of this page.
Hi Donovan,Many thanks for this helpful post.I’m moving to Cairo next year, so I’ve straightaway followed your suggestion and ordered the first two instalments of the Kalimni ‘Arabi series. (I have some basic knowledge of ECA (Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, for browsers here) already, but need to consolidate and build on it.)I intend also to learn MSA (Modern Standard Arabic). As a casual squash player, I’m aware that getting decent at one racket sport while learning another (such as tennis) is often a bad idea.
Do you have a view on this with regard to Arabic? That is, would you suggest that I leave MSA until I have a really sound knowledge of ECA?I was interested to read about your language-learning history. I, too, have a background in Koine Greek at university (via, first, Ancient Greek at school) and also studied Hebrew. Having mainly learnt dead languages (Latin, also) my style of learning is very much tabular (I seem to be able to soak up tables of declensions, conjugations, etc, very easily, perhaps because it’s been the way I’ve always done these things, and less good at having an ear for languages.) So if it weren’t for needing to actually communicate with people I’d be tempted to focus on Classical/MSA. Anyhow, if you have any thoughts on learning the two in parallel I’d be very interested.Anyhow, I’m going to go and check out some of your other posts now. And get hold of the biography of the eponymous polyglot of this site — he sounds fascinating.Cheers,Ben.
Hi Donovan!I really liked your tips about learn a new language with the lexical approach. I think it is the most effective method. I am learning English and I need some help to find a book to study like those Arabic books that you use to study by yourself. Do you have any recommendation? How can I find a book like that Kalimni? I know that we have more books about learn English than any other language, but I really didn’t find a great material to use and I’m feeling like I’ll never move on from this plato. Thank you man!.
Hello,Thank you for writing this post. I came across your post when I was googling on how/where to learn classical arabic. My keen interest is in classical arabic because I want to understand the Quran. I don’t mind not knowing how to communicate in arabic with others because that is not my primary goal. I have some basic in arabic (learnt it several years ago at school but after not using it that much I have forgotten a lot). Please could you give me some tips in learning classical arabic?
Thank you for your help. For someone who doesn’t rely too heavily on the internet, would you(all) recommend still using online language resources? Aside from the books recommended for learning Arabic what else would you(all) suggest to someone who doesn’t want to stare at a screen or use computers very often? I’m not a Luddite just an ill adjusted millenial. I’m willing to get with some online stuff but prefer to work in tandem with physical books or downloadable software or CD-ROMs. I’m a complete beginner and so slightly embarrassed to even admit of my interest in learning Arabic when I don’t know much about the language. New method to learn Arabic.
Very fast.very easy.and in your language!!Big list of verbs to express yourself as a native speaker.learn a real Arabic not a dialect so you will be understood by every Arabic speaker on the world. And more!!You can download free audio or have more details on this ebook here:Success guaranteedIm a native Arabic speaker. I strictly recommend Arabic learners to avoid dialects. Just learn Arabic with it’s principles as written on books and you will be able to speak dialects easily. ExHow are youكيف حالكIt’s in arabicLet’s say it in Egyptian.izayak!!!Its used only in egypte butكيف حالكIs used by every Arabic speaker on the world and on written forms.Good luck.salamسلام. I admire your learning desire,You can learn Chinese and talk like you are born in Beijing and also the case with the Japanese and the Basque Country but the Arabic language on the contrary is different from the perceptions that are difficult to be mastered by non-Arabs, there are Arabic grammatical and rhetoric very difficult even Arabs can touch this.In any case, I am in the habit of learning English and I hope to be successful in replying and I am afraid of the lapses and of course I am happy in providing help to the Arabic language teachings for all.And thanks ✋.