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@arabichick
okay my arabic skills are about at the level of a three year old BUT, if anyone is willing to chat to me in fus7a I would really appreciate it because I need to practice my speaking ability. just send me a message (or like this post) if you're interested!!
We need to talk about LingoHut
I’m supposed to be studying some Italian, but instead, I was googling in my computer how to learn a new language (no, googling how to learn will not teach you shit, you have to sit down and learn your target language not how to do it, I know but I’m lazy.) and I came across LingoHut, and I have to share it.
I don’t know if someone ever talked about this page, but if they did is worth mentioning again.
So basically you go to the website and in the Home Page you have to choose what is your first language and what language are you trying to learn.
Once you choose it’ll take you to another page in which you have tons of lessons, for ex. In Italian, there are 109 lessons.
I haven’t checked every lesson yet but for example, the first one is greetings and such. You click that lesson and you have 16 flashcards that will show you the word in your target language and the translation, at the same time that someone pronounces the words.
Below the flashcards, you have this ⬇️
And basically is a bunch of game, an easy matching words kind of game, some kind of tic tac toe with words, a memory game do you know the one that kids play in which they have to find the matching pictures? Same but with words and lastly a listening and matching game.
Below the bar of the games, we have the vocabulary list of the words we are taught in that lesson, and you can click the word and listen the pronunciation.
In the end, you have a bunch of the next lessons.
The lessons vary from the content it can be greetings, numbers, health stuff, office words, computer terminology, etc.
The website doesn’t have every language in the world, but it has a lot of them. choose your target language, in my case Italian, and enjoy, is fun and simple if you want to practice or do something related to your target language but you don’t have the willingness that day to study something more consistent like structure.
And the best part is that as far as I went looking around in this page it’s fucking free. Sure, you won’t end the one hundred and something lessons speaking like a native from whatever target language you’re learning, but it can be useful to expand your vocabulary.
“In Arabic they don’t say “I love you” they say “ إسمها فلسطين مش إسرائيل ” which means my soul belongs to you and I think that’s beautiful.”
— (via m7madsmiry)
Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
Oh i love this concept!
I really liked this post and created the first half “Expressions of politeness” in Arabic on Quizlet.
The link: https://quizlet.com/_6ukqzr
If any native speaker wants to correct any mistakes or suggest more words, I would really appreciate that!
Arabic Resources
*All of these resources are free*
Madinah Arabic Course: There are two sets of course:for those who can read Arabic script and those who cannot. In the course for those who cannot yet read Arabic script you will learn the Arabic alphabet, and slowly learn to read. In the other course you will be able to take 80+ Lessons that go over some of the basics for Arabic.
My Languages: Arabic: Audio. This hasaudio for tons of vocab and also goes over parts of speech like nouns,adverbs,pronouns,articles,etc.
Reed College Arabic Resources: Links to tons of resources including media, such as Netflix movies,newspaper and magazine sites, as well as recommendations for verb conjugator sites, and dictionaries.
Arabic Alphabet Song: Learning the alphabet is crucial to learning any language and having it in song definitely helps
Arabic Alphabet Quiz: This quiz will test you on your ability to identify all the letters and match them to their. This quiz is also timed,so go as fast as you can without sacrificing accuracy!
Writing Practice: THis website has tons of worksheets to practice handwriting and has the letters in all their forms. What I did,to save paper, was print out the pages I needed and put the pages in sheet protectors and I use a dry erase marker to trace the letters as I say their name and sound.
Those are all the free resources I use/know of and I hope to update this as time goes on. Enjoy!
DUOLINGO HAS ARABIC, THIS IS NOT A DRILL
OMG
now that school is over and it is summer vacation, i will be creating an arabic summer plan/guide so i can maintain my skills and be ready for the next school year.
Do you have any Arabic resources for beginners?
Textbooks & PDFs:
Al-Kitaab 3rd Edition
Arabic Grammar in Context
Arabic Grammar Tables
Arabic Plural System
Build Your Arabic Vocabulary
Easy Arabic Grammar
Easy Arabic Reader
Ultimate Arabic Beginner-Intermediate (what I use)
Websites:
Huruf extension to make font bigger [Chrome] [Firefox]
ACON Verb Conjugator
Al Jazeera Learn Arabic
Arabic Without Walls
Gateways to Arabic Videos
Glossika (use the free trial)
Khallina
Language Transfer Course
Learn Arabic with Maha Videos
Madinah Arabic
Talk in Arabic
UT Austin Listening Materials
Dictionaries:
Almaany
Forvo
Hans Wehr
Lughatuna
Other:
Apps
Alphabet Resources
Podcasts
Prepositions in Arabic (حُرُوفِ الجَرّ) by lass-uns-studieren
Taken the liberty to briefly note down this key concept in Arabic grammar. Tagging @wonderful-language-sounds, @malteseboy and @arabskaya-devushka. If you wish to add more information, feel free!
The prepositions take the kasra form of pronunciation (can be either singular or double) in nouns but not in verbs or particles. Further, feminine nouns take fatha
فِي: in إلى : to عَلَى: on مِن: from لِ: for مَعَ: with Pronouns can be used at the end as well to denote the object: معها : with her معَكَ : with you معنا : with us بِ: at/in/with حتى : until مُنذُ: since عَن: about كَ: like/as عِنْدَ : at
Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
Oh i love this concept!
The Present tense in Modern Standard Arabic “الفعل المضارع”
I am learning Arabic now, but I have difficulties in getting a teacher and any environments who can I share with them or learn together bout arabic. Do u have any suggestion for me, ? Or, can I learn written and spoken Arabic only by myself, ?
Well, I by no means think that language classes are the end all be all. If you have access to them, great, but if you don’t, don’t even sweat it! Before I had taken Japanese or Korean classes (which I didn’t do until college btw), I had been studying on my own, on and off, for a few years. Here is how I typically approach my new languages (and this works well for me, personally):
1. Learn the alphabet, well
2. Learn the super useful and basic sayings and how to introduce yourself
Of course, this just always seems like the best and easiest thing to do. Not only are these the things that are most important, so I’ll likely run into them all the time, but by learning basic phrases, I can get a feel for the way the language works, both in regards to how the language sounds, and how sentences are typically constructed. This early on, even when I don’t know all of the words, I like to point out certain patterns I see while looking at the translations (For example, when I was learning Korean, even though I didn’t really know any words or grammar, just by looking at translations of basic phrases, I could see “Oh, sentences in the past tense all seem to have this -ㅆ어요 ending whereas present tense sentences only had -요,” things like that.
3. Vocab, vocab, vocab!
Even though you may not know how to hold whole conversations, I feel like learning basic vocabulary at this point is the best idea. Verbs, places, time, direction words, family members, colors; all the super important things that you would likely want to talk about on an every day basis. Just build it up for a while.
4. Grammar!
I feel like once you have a substantial amount of vocab knowledge, now is the time for you to be focusing in on grammar. Of course at this point you already may have noticed a few things without having studied it, but now you can really dig into the grammar rules and start learning how to put together your own sentences. Thanks to all the vocab you now know, you should be able to construct sentences/hold conversations and talk about your self on at least a basic level, ask for directions, order food at a restaurant, things like that.
5. Get more comfortable with the past and then the future tense
Once I’m comfortable with the present tense, I focus on learning past, and then future tense (and if we’re talking Spanish, the 1,000 other tenses 😒) Once you’re finished with this point, I consider myself having created a solid foundation. Now all I have to do is decorate it! :)
6. a. Expand on vocabulary, then b.expand even further on grammar.
When you’re at least somewhat comfortable enough to recognize when sentences are in present, vs past, vs future,it’s time to hone your skills! Now is the time to learn all of that not-your-everyday-conversation type vocab, like more specific colors or body parts, outer space, less popular animals, more places and verbs, etc. This is where I typically try to get all fancy with sentence enhancers (aka adverbs, adjectives, idioms).
Going back and forth, repeating steps 6a and b.
You can never have too much vocab or grammar knowledge; it just keeps growing and growing.
Gee, writing this list out makes language acquisition seem like a short and easy process lol, but we all know it takes so much time and dedication. Once you’ve done all of this, I think you should be about at an intermediate level (on paper at least). It sucks not having anyone to practice speaking with, right? 😭 For the longest time I didn’t have anyone to speak any of my languages with. Now that I’m older, I guess I just have no shame in my languages. I walk around my house speaking Korean all the time. I get my pronunciation from dramas and music. I speak Spanish with my coworkers at my job. But if you really have no one, just sing! Or repeat things out loud that you hear in the movies or shows you watch.
So yea, I definitely know for a fact that it can be done. You already have a tumblr account, so that’s good. There are so many resources here. Notes, links, friendly people who will answer your questions the same as a teacher would, friendly people who will chat with you in your target language. Then there’s youtube, and there are endless apps and websites dedicated to teaching languages. I said it once and I’ll say it again, folks: Don’t underestimate the power of the internet! We can do so much on here, and for free. Take advantage of everything, and learn to work with what you’ve got, and when I say that, I mean both tangible and intangible factors. So much of how quickly and effectively you will learn, is based off of how well you do that (work with what you’ve got). If you know you love music, use it to learn. If you’re a doodler, draw out your notes. Some people like the sticky notes thing. If you’re like me and like to travel, go to countries that speak the languages and force yourself to talk to people. If your interest in languages and or motivation to study comes in waves (like me again haha), then work with that. Realistically, that happenes to a lot f us, I think. I stopped trying to fight it. If I am studying Korean for 2 months and suddenly I just want to study Spanish for 5 days, then I just do it, otherwise trying to force myself to study becomes a drag. I don’t ever want this to become a task for me rather than being fun.
Sorry this became so long 😭 but I really hope it helps! I’m considering starting Arabic, btw. I definitely want to start a new one this year, I just don’t know yet whether I want to start learning French again, or start learning Arabic or Mandarin. Anyway, happy studying!! :)
Hi, i am currently learning MSA as a module at my uni and was wondering what resources you use?
That’s so cool! I started in a similar way as well :)
When I was in uni I mainly used the resources that my teacher gave me, meaning the book and the photocopies and notes that she made. I think those will be your most important resources, so make sure you go to class as much as you can! You can also try with this:
Flashcards for vocabulary, which I made myself in paper, but you can also use apps like Tinycards where you can find flashcards made by other people. I prefer the physical version, though.
MyLanguages has great vocabulary lists, if you want to expand yours. It also works for a lot of other languages, if somebody else is interested.
I kept a notebook with all my vocabulary classified by topics, which was a great way to keep me organised. I still have it and use it!
Your pen and paper are the best resources you have. I found that studying visually was the best way to remember things in Arabic. If I had to learn vocabulary, or a new conjugation, or whatever, I didn’t study by reading them but by writing them down constantly, until my eyes recognised the word even if my brain was still slow at relating it with a sound. That would come right after.
Arabic verbs are a bit of a nightmare, so when I needed help I used Cooljugator, a tool that helps you conjugate verbs and is also available for a lot of other languages.
What we also did in class was to scan and upload each classmate’s notes to a shared google drive folder. It wasn’t always useful, but when you weren’t sure you had copied something properly from the blackboard or you were confused about how to conjugate in a particular tense, you could always find somebody’s notes where it was more clear.
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I hope I could help you a bit, best of luck with your studies!
Language Resources: Arabic
Websites:
BBC - Phrases, alphabet, videos and guides.
Digital Dialects - Numbers, colors and animals.
Forvo - Pronunciation
Language Familiarization Tool - A tool testing your familiarity with identifying other languages
Alison - Free introductory course
Omniglot - Language Profile, alphabet and more links to resources.
Learn A+ Language - Phrases
Look Lex - Free Arabic Course
Verbix - Verb Conjugation
Quizlet - Flashcards
Busuu - Mostly free vocab learning, have to pay to get the good stuff.
Livemocha
My Easy Arabic - Reading Arabic
Online Tuition Center - Reading Arabic
Babylon - Dictionary
Hello World - Language games
Salaam Arabic - Language games
Apps:
Memrise
Arabic Alphabet
Learn Arabic
Learn Arabic Free
Podcasts:
ArabicPod
ArabicPod 101
Lets Learn Arabic
Youtube:
LearnArabicwithMaha
Learn Arabic with ArabicPod101.com
Arabic Alphabet
LearnArabic
Easy Languages
Learn conversational Arabic with Dawoud
Other:
A Beginner’s Guide to Arabic - PDF
Beginner’s Guide to Read Arabic - PDF
Live 365 - Arabic Music
Streema - Arabic Radio
Live - TV in Arabic
Omniglots TV and Radio Links
Words that will help you to understand Arabic when memorized:
1. The. (Al) أل 2. Of. (Min) من 3. To. (Ilah). إلي 4. And. (Wa) و 5. In. (Fee) في 6. it (Huwa/hiya) هو/ هي لغير عاقل 7. You (anta). أنت 8. That. (Dzaka). ذاك 9. He. (Huwa). هو 10. She. ( Hiya). هي 11. For. (Lee) لي 12. On. (Alah) علي 13. With. (Ma'a) مع 14. As. (Ka). گ 15. I. (Anaa). أنا 16. They. (Hum). هم 17. Be. (Kun). كن 18. At ( fee/alah). في علي 19. Have. (Lahu). له 20. This. (Hadza) هذا 21. From. (Min). من 22. Or. (Au); أو 23. Had. (Lahu). له 24. By. (Bawaasidatu) بواسطة 25. Hot (haarun saakin) حارساكن 26.but. (Lakin). لكن 27. Some. (Ba'adu). بعض 28. What. (Maadzaa). ماذا 29. There (hunaaka) هناك 30. We. (Nahnu). نحن 31. Can. (Yastadee'u) يستطيع 32. Other. (AkhAr). أخر 33. Out. (Khaarijan). خارجا 34. Where. (Aina). أين 35. All. (Kullu). كل 36. When. (Mataa) متي 37. Up. (Aaliyan) عاليا 38. Down. (Sufliyyu). سفلي 39. Use. (Isti'imal). إستعمل 40. Word. (Kalimatu). كلمة 41. How (kaifa). كيف 42. Said. (Qaala). قال 43. Each. (Kullu waahidu). كل واحد 44. Which. (Ayyi). أي 45. Do. (Adhaa). أدي 46. Their. (Lahum) لهم 47.time. ( waqtu). وقت 48. If. (Idzan). إذا 49. Will. (Saufa). سوف 50. Way (dariqatu). طريقة 51. About (taqriban). تقريبا 52. Many. (Kaseeran). كثيرا 53. Then. (Ba'ada dzalik). بعدذالك 54. Would. (Saufa). سوف 55. Write (kataba). كتب 56. Them. (Him). هم 57. Like (hubbu). حب 58. So. (Hakadzaa). هكذا 59. These. (Haa'ulaa'i). هؤلاء 60. Long. (Daweelun). طويل 61. Make. (Ja'ala). جعل 62. Made. (Ma'amuulun). معمول 63. Thing. (Shai'un). شيع 64. See. (Unzur). أنظر 65.him. (Huwa). هو 66. Himself. (Nafsahu). نفسه 67. Herself. (Nafsaha) نفسها 68. Myself. (Nafsee). نفسي 69. Yours (laka/lakum/lakuma). لك/لكم/لكما 70. Yourself (nafsaka/nafsaki). نفسك 71. Themselves (Nafsakum). نفسكم 72. Has. (Lahu). له 73. Look. (Nazru). نظر 74. More. (AksAr). أكثر 75. Day. (Alyaum); اليوم 76. Go. (Dzahaba). ذهب 77. Come. (Ta'al). تعل 78. My (Lee). لي 79. Sound. (Sautu) صوت 80. No. (Laa). لا 81. Most (bidharajatu kabeer) بدرجةكبير 82. Number. (Adad). عدد 83. Who. (Man) من 84. Over. (Zaa'ida). زاءد 85. Know. ( arif). عرف 86.water. (maa'u). ماء 87. Than. (MinA). من 88. Call. (Yad'u). يدعو 89 first. (Auwalan). أولا 90. Last. (Akhiran). أخرا 91. People. (Alnaasu); الناس 92. Side. (Naahiyatu). ناحية 93. Been. (Kaana) كان 94. Now. (Al'An). الآن 95. Find. ( Aujad) أوجد 96.any. (Ayyi). أي 97. New. (Jadeed). جديد 98. Work. (amalu) عمل 99. Part. (Juz'u). جزء 100. Take. (Khudz). خذ 101. Get. (Sal) صل 102. Place. (Makaan). مكان 103. Live. (Ish). عش 104. After. (Feema ba'ad). فيمابعد
The Arabic-English visual bilingual dictionary:
Yup, I found that one as well. (The French one is on my blog) It’s a little less than 50 Mb in storage, it’s got the pictures (obviously) the words in Arabic + their transliteration. Y’all should definitely check it out!
Here’s the link to the google doc.
language learning made easy
I’ve summarized professor Alexander Arguelles’ video, because I think this is crucial for language learning.
There is no magic trick that will help you become fluent in 1 month, but there are very effective approaches to learning a new language and if you combine them, you will surely become fluent.
If you’re learning a new language, the most important thing you need to consider is – what type of language learner are you?
1. If you:
have a more deductive approach, which means that you’re better at listening to and observing the language first and learning through that, rather than starting with plain grammar points from a textbook
have a fair degree of intuition
like to observe a phenomenon
feel somewhat comfortable with ambiguity for a while, until things become clear
are someone who can feel comfortable being corrected when they realize they were wrong, rather than getting confused and frustrated because they went down an initial path that turned out not to be correct (so you actually learn from being corrected and you don’t get confused by it)
then, these manuals are best suited for you: the Assimil Language Series, the Linguaphone Series, the Cortina Methods.
2. If you:
have a desire to have things explained to you beforehand in a nice and clear way
have a logical and analytical mind (which is usually the product of education in general)
have a need for a systematic approach (basically if you’re most comfortable with a book which is going to introduce the grammar according to an agreed set of methods or an organized plan)
then, you should try out some of these manuals: the Hugo Series, the Made Simple Series, the Teach Yourself Series, the Buske Series.
3. PAY ATTENTION TO PATTERNS!!!
the most important part are the patterns of a language
no matter what type of language learner you are, I think it’s really clever to incorporate this method into you learning.
a language is actually made up of patterns which constantly repeat themselves and that is THE KEY TO FLUENCY
repeating the patterns over and over again, until they become natural, until you no longer have to conjugate the verbs in your head before speaking
when you become really good with patterns, your sentences will come out naturally, and patterns are what will get you to fluency
I’ve provided the links, where you will find a review of the books, so that you can have an idea of what they look like. You can find most of these on amazon.
There is also an amazing blog on here, which provides free books, and I think that you can find half of these series for free there. @lovelybluepanda
