Learn Spoken Arabic in 101 Languages!
Requirements
- There are no requirements! Whatever your language is, Now you can warmly greet your Arab friends and colleges
Description
You are not successful unless you have some nice words to start a conversation and if you use those phrases at the start of a conversation which is a part of their culture and they use them daily it means that you have opened the heart of the other person for yourself and you have their full attention, your good impression will remain until the end of the conversation even if you switch to another language!
While learning Arabic by transliterated (Roman) script most of the non-natives get stuck because they are not familiar with the Arabic alphabets.
Because of that, they cannot differentiate between long and short syllables and some specific Arabic sounds which cannot be expressed by English alphabets. So, they cannot pronounce properly.
Now CHAT has solved this problem with a very practical and easy method with a unique and advanced kind of transliterated (Roman) Arabic.
Recognizing short syllables and long syllables:
Let’s take an example, “متی” is an Arabic word which means “When?” and in transliterated (Roman) it is written “Mataa”. But the “a” which comes after “M” is a short sound. So, how to know that? Because if someone reads “a” in English he will automatically produce a long syllable… This always disturbs your pronunciation because you have no way to separate the short sound from the long sound.
We have the simple solution for this problem…
“A”, “O” & “I” are letters which are put instead of some characters when transliterating Arabic to Roman script. But, these are also those letters which are most confusing in the matter of Short/Long sounds.
If a syllable is short, we just put the same letter above the one which is used, but just in smaller size… Also, we break every syllable with a (–). Now, you can easily identify the syllables and understand their partitions!
Pronouncing words in the proper way:
It is not possible to create the pure Arabic pronunciation of some letters using only English. Specially the five most complicated sounds, “S”, “H”, “Q”, “T”, “A” or “E” or “I” letters… So, we simply bring Arabic alphabets in small size and put them above these letters.
We will also describe these codes in every slide so by just watching few times you will become used to it and we are sure that your pronunciation will be very similar to the real Arabic pronunciation… You just have to practice then deliver these sentences without any hesitation and maintain your confidence, and we are sure that you will succeed.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to become able to speak Arabic (In Local Dialect/Accent)
Instructor
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- 11,722 Students
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Hello there! hope you are well… My name is Sultan, and I have 25 years of experience with Arabic and I have a bachelor’s degree in the Language,
In the start of my journey when I was learning it, I became fluent in the grammatical Accent by practicing it with my University colleagues and I had a big interest in deep Arabic grammar & poetry. I also got a chance to teach Arabic literature for 2 years in the same University from where I graduated.
So, when I thought of coming to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the first time, I believed that I will not encounter any problem in communications and handling situations. But, as soon as I landed here I was surprised, the language which was spoken here was completely different and I was in such a situation where I could not even understand someone’s single sentence and I was not able to convey what I wanted to say because I did not have the knowledge of specific words and accent which was used in spoken Arabic.
All these things happened even though I was fluent in grammatical Arabic. So here you can understand the difference between the spoken and grammatical way.
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I spent one year to understand the accent of locals and it took five more years for me to become able to deliver it.
And it became possible because a large portion like 12 years of my life was spent with Saudis. All these long years me and my family were living away from the city and we were the only expats there. So, all that time I had to deal & talk with them in their accent because it was my job to teach them.
I picked up all spoken words and sentences from their communication keeping the original shape in mind and every day and night, my grammatical skills were with me. I think you will agree that 12 years is not a short duration to achieve a goal.
Then I started teaching Arabic to expats in 2010 and at that time I was teaching what I had learned in the beginning, means, grammatical Arabic which is also known as Fusha.
But in my first year of teaching Arabic I realized that people need an Arabic which they can speak in the market, on the road with cops & in simple conversations with Arab colleagues. Fusha can help you in reading & writing or understanding the grammatical way but no more than that.
Then I decided to teach spoken Arabic to expats. The problem was, there was no material available supporting the spoken path. But I continued my teaching AND I started developing my own material.
Every few months, during every batch, I observed the need of people, what sentence and word is their requirement in which situation, and what kind of situations they might face. Then I tried to fulfill their needs by choosing that sentence or word from what I had learned in those 12 years.
This process of making an intellectual curriculum kept on going for 7 – 8 years until a time came when I looked back and saw that I am able to make people stand closer to the level which I had achieved in 25 years…
In the end I would say that I don’t claim that my courses will make you able to read & write everything in Arabic. But, it will completely fulfill your spoken needs and still, it can become a base for your grammatical Arabic and help you understand about 35% of the grammatical method after practicing…