Arabic in English - Estes 2

This is the continuation of the Vid 1.

I had selected a number of topics from the video.

Yusof called these letter as pot belly family.

a. Explanation of the letter ha --ح

b. Sound of kha -- خ

c. Sound of sin --س

d. shin -- ص

e. shad -- ض

Enjoy your learning

arabic in English - Estes 1

I am following the lesson given by Yusuf Estes.

I am a Malaysian and my first Language is Malay and second is English. I had been learning the Quranic Arabic, but I still consider myself as a beginner.

Let us follow the lesson:

a. Learn the letters - aliff, a straight line

b. It is fun that the sun is straight like a dot on the line.. this happen in the noon -- so the letter nun will come out.

c. Then there is a letter with one dot below...below... start with be .. like the arabic letter of Ba.

d. Three dots.. three... start with th.. Tha

It look like a real fun to learn Arabic... then we can go to segment 2...

IKIM 29 Dec 2010

من يوم لأخر - from day to day

min - from

yaumin - today

li aahara -

Conversation

1. kabura abna uka. (كبر ابناؤك) ... your children had grown

kabur - had grown

abna uka --- consist of 2 words -- abna-- children and ka-- yoursنافكور

2. ana fahurun -- انافكور -- I am proud

3. عندماارى أبنئ يكبرونا

andama ara - when I see... عندماارى

ib ni - my children ............ أبنئ

yakburu na - has grown up ... يكبرون

4. من يوم لاخر from day to day

--- to continue..

learn arabic from IKIM

this is today lesson from the radio IKIM. It is part of my effort to learn arabic the hard way.

The word for this week is:
بكل سرور ......... bi kulli suru rin. means with pleasure or dengan hati yang terbuka.

The conversations are:

1. هل يمكلن ان تتبرع لدار إلآأيتام ... hal yomkimu an tatabaro aya li daa rin al aitaa ma.

Do you want to make donation to the house for the orphan.

Adakah awak hendak menderma kepada rumah anak yatim.

2. بكل سرور .... with pleasure ...dengan hati terbuka

دساعدت الاايتام طريق الى الجنه ... helping the orphan is the road to heaven.. menolong anak yatim ialah jalan ke syurga.

EXPANDED VIEW /

بكل .... CONSIST OF 2 WORDS BI- WITH AND KULLI --- ALL OF

سرور .... ??

When these two words are combined, it mean with pleasure.

categories of words - nouns - isim

In Arabic, the words are categorized into 3 groups:

1 - isim, it is the nouns in English, hoever it is not exactly like the English grammar.

2 - fael, or verbs

3 - haraf -or particles.

من انت؟

'man' is an interrogative pronoun, or domir which can be translated as 'who'.

'anta' is an pronoun means 'you'

in Arabic, there is no verb 'to be'

So the sentence is translated as 'who are you'.

انا نديم٬انا طبيب امريكي

'ana Nadim' I am Nadim

'ana tobibun ameriki' .. tobibun means a doctor and ameriki is american.

Please note that the abjective is after the noun, unlike the English where it is before the noun.

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من هي٬

"man hiya" man is who, hiya is she, ... in English.."who is she"

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هي مريم٬

hiya Maryam... she is maryam

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هي فتاه

hiya fataatun... she is a girl

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Construction of Arabic Words

If we are familiar with with English words, in the standard writing, the letters are written separately to form a word. Each of the word is separated by a space.

The arabic writing is different. The text is written from right to left. The letters to form a word are joined, there is a simple rule on the ways the letters are joined. Some words can be joined with another word. There is no space required between words.

The followings are some examples on how the letters are joined.

1.            dwelled                     س ك ن   .......   سكن.....the word is pronounced as "sa ka na". It consists of three letters which sound like.. from  right to left   (nun=ك) (ن = kaf).. (س=sin)

2.            worshipped             نسك   ....... ن س ك ..the word is pronounced as "na sa ka".. It consists of three letters which sound like.. from  right to left   (sin=ك)....(س=kaf..)... (ن = nun)..
3.            ate                         أ ك ل        .......  أكل ..the word is pronounced as "a ka la" . It consists of three letters which sound like.. from  right to left   ...(....ل. = lam).(..ك=kaf....)(.أ..= a)

The arabic verbs are divided into 3 types, present tense, past tense and commanding or request. The example in English for the word eat are ...1. he eats     2. he ate     3.please eat .  the earlier example    أكل   means he ate.
The root word for Arabic is past tense, as present tense is the root word for English.

Arabic letter.
There are 28 letters in Arabic, and some of them cannot be translated directly to English. Some of the letters do not have the equivalent sound in English. The letters are:

اب ت ث ج ح خ دذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي ى