brushing up on my arabic

[hearandobey]

assalam alaykum,

basically i've decided that i really want to start brushing up on my arabic properly. to give you a little bit of background information regarding myself, i'm a native arabic speaker but am married to a non-arab so i don't get to really practice my arabic on a daily basis so it's lead to the weakening of my spoken arabic. i also don't have a lot of arab friends and the ones i know always speak aammi. alhamdulilah my understanding (in terms of reading and writing) is still pretty much the same but i tend to like reading things in english more than arabic because i find myself much stronger in english as well as being faster in reading it.

alhamdulilah i've realised though that if i really want to learn the deen properly and go back to the authentic sources etc. then i have to brush up on my arabic. has anyone got any tips on how to get started? i've personally been looking into arabic books of sarf and grammar and getting some good dictionaries.

any tips would be appreciated.

[Muslim_a]

Sis May Allah make it easy for you inshAllah

Im from a non speaking arab background but I’d love to learn Arabic I believe that’s a ENMOURS blessing from Allah swt anyway I recommend you try some kind of program to help you out. There’s this great CD called ‘Lets Learn Arabic’ but the dialogue taught is Egyptian so it’s confusing for me cause there are many many differences between classical Arabic and the modern day Egyptian. Apparently Egyptian is becoming much more spoken because of their entertainment eg. Movies, music ect

I guess it’s the same situation with the afghs they all know hindi or something because of the bollywood movies.

Wa salam alaykum

[Um Abdullah M.]

wa alaykum assalam

ukhti, try listening to Arabic lectures, and reading more in Arabic, that will help insha Allah.

If a book or article is in Arabic and English, try to read it in Arabic first, then read it in English, then Arabic again, The English will help in understanding the big difficult words insha Allah.
you should also look in Arabic dictionaries for meaning of words that you dont' understand.

and I stress again on listening to Arabic lectures, of course the ones in fusha, there are some shuyookh who tend to use some 'ammi, so stick to the ones whose lectures are purely fusha.

[SAINT GEORGE OF ARABIA]

walaykum salaam

the best book of arabic is the quran

mostly non-arab get annoyed to memorise things they dont understand
as an arab you have a great advantage alhamdulillah.
lectures will help but memorising surats of quran is top
nahw-ul wadhi is the best book, nahw-ul-muyassara also but have pictures.
you can combine both but quran should be primary.

if possible you can order satellite with arabic channels, some programme offer hadith, fiqh or even i'rab class.... unfortunately most have music i hope you resist the temptation and only watch islamic channels.

[IbnShaykh]

assalam alaykum,

basically i've decided that i really want to start brushing up on my arabic properly. to give you a little bit of background information regarding myself, i'm a native arabic speaker but am married to a non-arab so i don't get to really practice my arabic on a daily basis so it's lead to the weakening of my spoken arabic. i also don't have a lot of arab friends and the ones i know always speak aammi. alhamdulilah my understanding (in terms of reading and writing) is still pretty much the same but i tend to like reading things in english more than arabic because i find myself much stronger in english as well as being faster in reading it.

alhamdulilah i've realised though that if i really want to learn the deen properly and go back to the authentic sources etc. then i have to brush up on my arabic. has anyone got any tips on how to get started? i've personally been looking into arabic books of sarf and grammar and getting some good dictionaries.

any tips would be appreciated.

Bismillah

As Salaam alaykum

I found that this shaykh's lectures shaykh muhammad ismaeel Al Moqadam improved my understanding considerably. He speaks in pure Fusha and very clearly mashallah.

His lectures can be found here:

http://www.islamway.com/?iw_s=Scholar&iw_a=lessons&scholar_id=33

Try listening to the tafseer as I am told by native arabic speakers it is the most simple and best to start with.

May Allaah make it easy for us ameen.

[SAINT GEORGE OF ARABIA]

sheikh kishki(ra) is the best.....

he has his lectures there as well but he might be too strong for you(politically)

he used to give khutba in fus ha and second half or he speaks in egyptian


but you will learn alot from him

[SAINT GEORGE OF ARABIA]

http://www.islamway.com/?iw_s=Scholar&iw_a=lessons&scholar_id=39

[Abu Maryam PK]

Bismillah
try shaikh albani's lectures. he speaks very clearly and slowly.

[SAINT GEORGE OF ARABIA]

in my opinion, she could set up intensive programme...

apart from listening to media she could find a teacher and combine 4 things.

number 1 is the quran, every surah she memorises and learn the meaning improve her vocabulary.

nawh-ul-wadhi is easy to understand and very good for beginners.

40 nawawi, if she memorises all 42 in sha Allah she will improve

sharh usool thalatha


tahfiz quran plus 3 small books

taking it slowing and improving gradually in sha Allah