Madrasah At-Tayyibah School of Arabic: July 2022

Wednesday, 20 July 2022

Salaam/ Good Day All

Please complete the following survey if you have any interest in learning Arabic.

If not, please forward to friends or family members who might have an interest.

This survey is conducted by the Madrasah At-Tayyibah School of Arabic (https://schoolofarabic.blogspot.com/).

The purpose is merely to ascertain the level of interest in learning to read, write, speak & or understand the Arabic Language.

Submitting your name and/or contact details are optional.

It should only take about five minutes or less to complete this survey which consists mostly of multiple choice questions.

Shukran.

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Read, Write and Understand Arabic Survey

Idrees Kamish

I am an educator. I taught at public schools in Cape Town under the WCED for more than 37 years. During the last 17 years I served as a school principal. I am also the principal and chief facilitator of the Madrasah At-Tayyibah, School of Arabic & Quran Studies. I am passionate about learning different languages, especially Arabic. Currently I speak English, Afrikaans and Arabic fluently. I also understand Dutch and German when I read books or watch movies in these languages. Furthermore, I have an understanding of isiXhosa as well as a few other languages. I teach Arabic & Quran Studies at a variety of institutions and online, via the videos I produce. I also write Arabic learning materials and books for those who want to learn the language or understand Al-Quran. I am computer literate. I've used these skills to successfully produce many blog posts about my various interests, as well as more than 10 books. Furthermore, I use a variety of Video Editing as well as Audio Editing Programmes to produce the video and audio lessons. Over the years I have been blogging about my Arabic classes as well as my other interests.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Alhamdulillah! The Read & Write Arabic Course is still going strong.

So far there are about 70 students registered for the course. About 30 students attend classes at the Heideveld Mosque. The rest are receiving the notes and audio/ video lessons via WhatsApp.

As stated before the main focus of this course is the Reading & Writing of Arabic. The course will also cover most Tajwid Rules as well as some grammar rules (indirectly).

So far we've managed to complete the First Module, although we'll be revising all aspects during the next two weeks. We shall also start the Second Module within the next few days. Yes, the classes are only once a week (Monday evenings), but lessons are sent to the students via WhatsApp throughout the week.

The students have been requested to complete all the exercises of Module One and based on the results they will be regrouped, according to levels of competence or attendance. The students who are not attending the classes will be put in two groups: Those who can cope on their own and those who will be linked to a future group of on-line or attending students.

The aim is to go fully on-line with this course as well as other courses from September 2022 onwards, In-Sha-Allah. The format of the on-line program will be explained soon.

Please watch this space!

Wa-Salaam!

Idrees Kamish