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Modern Standard Arabic
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18 students

Modern Standard Arabic

Instructor: Sheikh Hamzah Sheikhtabar
Created byImam Sadiq Seminary
Last updated 10/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Identify Arabic Letters
  • Learn Arabic pronouns and adverbs
  • Start reading Arabic words with confidence
  • Create demonstrative adjectives & question sentences
  • Learn Vocabulary
  • Plural and adjectives

Course content

4 sections • 24 lectures • 12h 0m total length

  • Introduction/ Arabic Alphabet38:09

    Explore modern standard Arabic basics, focusing on the Arabic alphabet of 29 characters, including 26 consonants and 3 vowels, and the names and sounds like hamza and unfamiliar letters.

  • Arabic Alphabet in writing27:25

    master arabic writing by learning letter shapes, connections, and diacritics, including short and long vowels marked by exemplary signs. explore right-to-left script, no capitals, and dot-based letter distinctions.

  • Auxiliary Signs28:13

    Explore arabic diacritics for short and long vowels—fathah, kasra, lum, and sakowin—and learn to combine shadda and other signs with consonants, practicing reading the Qur'an.

  • Hamzah & Ta’ Marbutah29:20

    Explore hamzah and ta’ marbuta rules, diphthongs, position-based letter forms, and the genitive construction in Arabic, with examples like Allah, Rahman, Rahim.

  • Pronouns29:20

    Explore Arabic pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic, including singular, dual, and plural forms, masculine and feminine distinctions, and present versus absent references, with guided pronunciation and practice exercises.

  • Adverbs (here and there)28:17

    Practice pronouns and daily life vocabulary in Modern Standard Arabic, using here and there to locate objects, while refining pronunciation and Arabic script joining rules in exercise eight.

  • Definite Article & Sun Letters33:50

    Explore how the Arabic definite article al attaches to the following word, precedes nouns and adjectives, and interacts with sun letters and moon letters.

  • Sun & Moon Letters33:12

    Explore the Arabic definite article rules, distinguishing sun and moon letters, mastering hamza connections, and how vowels shift when joining words, with practical examples and reading exercises.

  • Gender (جِنس)28:29

    Explains gender in Arabic, including real and artificial gender, masculine and feminine forms, and how gender affects verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and sentence order, with exceptions.

Requirements

  • No knowledge of Arabic is required for this course
  • Love to learn the Arabic language.
  • Take notes and practice

Description

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), or Modern Written Arabic (shortened to MWA) is a term used mostly by Western linguists to refer to the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the language used in academia, print and mass media, law, and legislation.

This is an elementary-intermediate course and this book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of the many colloquial varieties. This long-established and successful text has been completely revised with the needs of English-speaking learners especially in mind and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

• Step-by-step guide to understanding written and spoken texts

• develops conversational ability as well as reading and writing skills

• Arabic-English Glossary containing 2600 entries

• Fresh texts and dialogues containing up-to-date data on the Middle East and North Africa

• includes Arab folklore, customs, proverbs, and short essays on contemporary topics

• Grammatical terms also given in Arabic, enabling students to attend language courses in Arab countries

• provides a wide variety of exercises and drills to reinforce grammar points, vocabulary learning and communicative strategies

• includes a key to the exercises

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner-level learners of Modern Standard Arabic
  • College Students who will be studying Arabic as a second language
  • People who are in the Arab countries and want to be able to interact in Arabic
  • People who want to be able to read and understand Arabic text especially the Quran

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