Increase Your ArabicVocabulary

In learning any new language, the number of words that you know and able to use are very important for your to communicate with others. In fact is more important than the grammar. You may speak a broken Arabic and be understood, but with the right vocabulary, you have to resort to sign language.

     

Arabic root word is normally for past tense verb. Many of which are 3 syllabal word like a-ka-la means I have eaten.

Arabic Vocabulary Video 1

In Arabic, most words are derived words It may be add to know that the root word in Arabic is mostly past tense.

This concept seem odd when some language had the nouns are the root word and the verbs are derived from nouns.

Three words are quoted here, - baitun - waladun -mujtahidun

Welcome in Arabic

In the Last video, we had learn how to introduce ourselves in a non formal and formal ways. There are other ways to introduce, which will come naturally as we build up our understanding of the language. Now we are learning to be well mannered and to say welcome when people said thank you to us.

Arabic does not have the way like... you are welcomed, as we often use in English.

a. Sukran... Thank You.
b. mutassaaar - meaning I am grateful
c. When someone says thank you to you, then you can say ... with pleasure
...bi kulli surrur - which consists of 3 words, bi - meaning with,..... kulli = all , .....  surrur - pleasure
d. tahta ameriki - at your service -


The video to help the understand is given below...   

Learn Arabic with Maha Lesson1

Today we have a young and beautiful teacher. Her name is Maha. We are going to learn a very short lesson.

It is about your name.

You will say ... Ismee... Maha my name is maha

and you will ask for his name.

maa is muka.. what is you name (male)

or

maa is muki .. if you are asking a girl,

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1. The Arabic word "Ma" is a wonder word that has so many meaning. It sound confusing for a learner like me and I thought it was odd until we think of similar situation in English, which we tend to take it for granted. In this case 'ma' is meant to be a question form and can be translated as "what".

2. The pronoun "ka" or "ki" is possessive pronoun, the like of "your". In arabic many of the words changes according to 'gender' and many other criteria.

3. In English , we learn about singular and plurals. However the Arabic has singular, two and plurals.

Introducing Yourself

Many people will be arguing about the best way to learn Arabic. Each has their own logic and his point of view. As for me, let us just do it. It will take time and a lot of practices.
Let us with Carole, she does not sound Arabic, so much the better, as the Arab may tend to speak too fast.
Our first lesson is to introduce ourself.
1. She is using the word…”marhaban” – which to me seem to mean welcome. Most likely that she is introducing herself to a group of audiences and welcoming the audiences.
2. Surirtu – imply that I am glad , bi – means with, biliqa i – mean meeting and ka means you, which is for one male. .. ki – you woman … kum –you plural
The Arabic words can be combined to make it appear to be one word. In this case biliqa’ika is in fact 3 separate words joint to appear like 1 word.
3. I like the second introduction – ismi = my name. Arabic does not have the verb of “am” or “is”. Thus it comes.. my name Carol.
It is not uncommon to say a form of greeting such as Salam.. In  fact the global practice of shaking hand is brought by the Arab to Europe through Spain. Arabs was leading the world for more that 600 hundred years before the English started the empire.

Learning From Understandquran dot Com

One of the site that I did to help me in my journey was understandquran-com. I appreciate the good efforts done by Dr Abdulazeez, and I pray that his effort will be rewarded.

There are four type of courses offerred. The best part is, all the courses was free.

The offered courses are:
- Short Coursesof the
- Basic Courses
- Full Courses
- Children Courses

It courses were available, I think 4 years ago. When I check today, there is a small fees  charged. I think it is reasonable, the speaker has to earn a living, so are the support staff. The fee is very reasonable, and about the course of a book.

I like his style of total interaction. After all that is what we do when we speak, our arm and body movement are helping to deliver the message.

All the program was in English, but now there are many variety to it. Somehow, I am more comfortable with my native Malay language. It is not that my command of English is poorer, but the Malay language has a lot of similarity to Arabic. Hundred of words in Malay have their origin from Arabic language.