As-Salaamu Alaykum Students & Friends!
Read 12 short Arabic sentences and learn to distinguish between statements and questions using أَ [a] (and هَلْ [hal]) in Arabic - while only using 5 letters of the Arabic Alphabet! This is the fourth short video to help beginners to read Arabic, and to help those who can read - improve their reading and understanding of the Arabic Language. The five letters of the word البنت [al-bintu] are used in 12 short sentences. These 12 sentences contain only these 5 letters - and no other letters (except for the هـ [h] in [hal]), to help readers to gain confidence in reading Arabic, even though they might only know 5 letters! In the previous 3 short videos about 34 words were covered with only these 5 letters. Now, in this video you'll learn to read 12 sentences using only these 5 letters! At the end of the video, there is a short quiz to check if you have mastered reading and understanding (by translating) these few sentences!
By the way, the 34 words covered in these short videos appear more than 15 000 times in Al-Quran! (See: Read ARABIC Today: Introduction for more info on this.)
These videos present Module One which form part of the series whereby the whole Arabic alphabet will be introduced to non-Arabs a few letters at a time. Most other approaches introduce the entire alphabet, before covering any words or meanings. On the other hand, those who wish to teach the Arabic language either assumes the learner can already read the Arabic script or they might use transliteration.
The problem I've discovered during years of teaching adults (as well as teenagers) is that many students attempt to learn the Arabic language without having a solid command of the Arabic script. Some even think that learning Arabic means learning how to read the Arabic script - period. This perception used to be quite prevalent among non-Arabic speaking Muslims, especially since many Muslims still only desire to read the Arabic script in order to read Al-Quran without necessarily understanding what they read.
Unfortunately this concept is perpetuated by the many Hifdh Schools in our societies, who do sterling work in terms of teaching students to read and memorize Al-Quran, but very few (to my knowledge) make any attempt to teach the Arabic language.
This series of videos do not replace a language acquisition programme, it merely aims to help those who find it difficult to learn the Arabic script for reading Al-Quran or for the sake of gaining access to learning to speak or understand the language in order to enable them to read texts written in Arabic.
Here's the link to the video: Read ARABIC Today - Module One Part Two B
Please let me know what you think of this approach.
Shukran Jazeelan!
Ustaadh Idrees
