Learn Arabic with Maha Lesson 15

Learn Arabic from Maha Lesson 14

Learning Arabic can be taxing.

The structure is very different from what we are familiar in English.

One of the new thing that I had learned, the Arabic sentences can start with either nouns, verb or even haraf.

For example, the word "fi" translated as "in" in most circumstances, can be at the beginning or middle of a sentence.

example 1: the pen is in my hand.

alqalam fi yadee

The Arab will merge 'the pen' into a word alqalam.
my hand is merge into yadee.

example 2: In this case the word 'fi' is put to the beginning of the sentence.
- fi alghurfa kursee
laterally translated as in the room chair.

You notice arabic language seem to be complex. It is like compressing the sentence to lesser words.

learn arabic Maha Lesson 13

Learning Arabic can be interesting especially when you have a beautiful teacher like Maha.

How do say I dont know in Arabic?

Maha will be teaching you.

I = Ana in Arabic

Dont know - can be a bit tricky.

Dont is a verb in English. This is because in a sentence you have to have a verb.

Dont -- translated to La, it is the negative form of a verb. You put the"la" in front of a verb to signify that it is negative

know = a'ref

This is a form of present tense which will change according to whom it is intended to be.

a' ref = i know

ta' ref = you know

la ta' ref = you do not know

LA A' REF = I DONT KNOW

learn arabic - Maha lesson 12

In this lesson we are learning how to ask a simple question, "what is this".

You will note that, in English language, you have the word "is".

In Arabic this word doe s not exist, so the arab will say... "what this?"

.. ma hatha.

ma mean what, and

hatha is "this", one of the difficult think to learn is, most of the object is divided into

male and female.

'hatha' is for male and if it is a female, then you will say..

'ma hathihi'

we need to remember that cannot translate the arabic word, word by word.

This is because the mean reside in the phrase, so

for the phrase 'what is this' the arabic phrase is 'ma hatha'.

The word 'ma' is one of the word that can have different meaning, depending on the phrases.

I was puzzled when I learn that some of the arabic words had many meaning. I did appear odd

until someone remind me that some word is English language have the same characteristic, on having multiple meaning.. take example the word "in" or 'out'.

Learn Arabic with Maha lesson 10

Lesson 10 is teaching about how to express your "want". Slowly by surely we are slowly build up our capability to speak arabic language. Join me to watch the video, and listen to Maha.



We are introduced into two basic phrases.

1. I want to .... ureedu

2. I need to ..... ahtaju ila

It is is interesting to nte that the arabic for I need to is made up of 2 words, ahteeju ila, it is always together. The arabic for I want to is one word ureedu. Please take note that arabic is sensitive to the length of the syllable.

YOU WANT SOMETHING

If you want something, which is a nouns, such as water or food.. this is how you say it..

a. I want water ................ ureedu al-maa'

b. I need water ............... ahtaju ila al-maa'

YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING

If you want to do something, then, the method is different.

The thing that you want to do must be in present tense and we insert the word an before the word.. like in english, we put to. E.g I want to eat.

a. I want to drink ............ ureedu an akul

b. I need to drink ...................... ahtaju ila an akul

Good luck with learning arabic from Maha.

learn arabic with maha lesson 9 - About the different jobs

Today we will learn arabic using a new topic.

It is about the names of different jobs, let us listen to MAHA...

http://youtu.be/3IUNKT08ZHk

Let us view the english translation, I do not write the arabic text as it consume too much of my time to do it...

In arabic the nouns are normally divided into two gender grouping, male and female. The basis group is male and to change it to female we normally at addition letter, the ta ة. However not all word follows that simple rule.

lawyer (male) muhamee

lawyer (female) muhameeyah

doctor (m) tobeeb (f) tobeebah

electrician (m) kahrabe'e (f) kahrabee'ya

actor (m) mumaathil (f) mumathilah

worker (m) a'amil (f) a'amilah

driver (m) saa'q (f) sa'aqah

tailor (m) baae'e (f) baae'eh

engineer (m) muhandis (f) muhandisah

manager (m) mudeer (f) mudeerah

carpenter (m) najjar (f) najjarah

student (m) taaleb (f) taalebah

What make it worst for new learner like me is, the above are only for singular, then there is another words for dual of two of them and another for 3 or more, each come with the gender naming.