Easier to learn Arabic
In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first obstacles, learning Arabic is only fun and easy. I have built this website – Learn Arabic – to make it easier to learn Arabic. I use smart functionality to help people overcome the obstacles that hindered me to learn Arabic.
Start reading Arabic before you learn the alphabet
I would have learned Arabic faster if it had not been for the Arabic alphabet. Because every letter have different shapes, and the letters are joined, it was time-consuming and annoying to try to read Arabic.
عرَبِيَّة
It barely helped me to have a table with the Arabic alphabet next to me. I still could not tell where one letter ended and the next started. I did not have any patience to memorize the Arabic alphabet. I wanted to get starting with Arabic words and sentences immediately, just like I did when I learned other languages.
The only times I felt hope, was when some books and websites showed a word with the letters split up.
ﻋَ ﺮَ ﺑِ ﻴَّ ﺔ
It got so much easier. I wished that they could do that with more words, preferably all the words. Even better would be if I could have a link to each letter, with more information about that letter.
6 Comments
kamikazeturtles
Many years back, I wanted to learn Arabic, but, the problem is, there isn't one "Arabic". It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic…
When faced with this question, I just decided Farsi seemed a lot more interesting and accessible.
42772827
>It got so much easier. I wished that they could do that with more words, preferably all the words. Even better would be if I could have a link to each letter, with more information about that letter.
Do not do this! It feels easier in the beginning but it is to your detriment. The start up cost is slightly higher, but learning to treat each member of the Arabic abjad as a sound specific to that word will help you think in the dialect of Arabic you're targeting much faster.
There are tons and tons of YouTube videos about the Arabic script. Don't skip it!
ajb
The thesis of this site is that it's easier to learn to read Arabic first with the letters separated . It seems like there should be a way for a browser plugin (or maybe just some user css, if that still works) to separate the letters on any website.
roschdal
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vonunov
I'm getting intermittent timeouts, here's archive in case we hug it https://archive.fo/kfSVV
tasuki
> Arabic is my life. Learning Arabic is the best thing I have done. Thanks to Arabic, I have discovered poetry.
Why should I learn Arabic? There's poems in the three/four languages I speak. Are the Arabic ones better?