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Your explanation is very distinctive and clear.. All thanks and appreciation to this teacher and to the makers of this wonderful program for teaching the Arabic language in an easy and simple way.👍
Good job. It should be noted that these phrases are in Levantine Arabic dialect. Every other arabic dialect has similar phrases with a few tweaks here and there. I feel MSA/Quranic Arabic is under-appreciated. Almost every Arab can speak MSA and comprehend most dialects. I always advise people to learn MSA first and then choose the dialect they wish afterwards. I always converse in MSA with foreigners who have A2-B1 Arabic.
Fred, this series is top stuff. The root system is central to Arabic, so teaching roots and explaining the patterns that can be applied to them is just like you put it - the key to unlocking Arabic. Please continue doing it, alf shukran.
Professor!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you so much for taking my advice about the colors!!!! I love it!!! And i think on the next verb (that doesn't have so many form I nouns) it's really going to pay off. Excellent lesson btw. This was one that really screwed w/me when i first started learning Arabic, and i still learned some new things from your video. Keep up the great work. ❤ Alex from Ohio
Cool lesson. One point about 'dar' - there are places where 'bayt' can't quite be its synonym. 'dar al6alb' or 'dar alhandasah', as examples... 'bayt alhandasah' doesn't have the same ring to it. To me anyway :)
Thanks for another great lesson. Every time I plateau in my Levantine studies, you provide educational opening to reach new heights. Could you do the root JMA (gathering/grouping)?
Alif Lam Mim. Etymology, root SLM, etyma LM لَمَّ ٱللّٰهُ شَعَثَهُ God rectified, or repaired, and consolidated, what was disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, of his affairs. Now the meaning of the previous S = an ongoing, effort to maintain something, the لمم. So ? Where is the meaning of Submission in the word Muslim or Islam ? Islam is an infinitive, a set of actions for Salaam. It's not about Peace, polysemic latin concept.
@@defiantfaith324 We saw the etyma, anciant semitic root, now the archetyps : S = ongoing, its strengh within, so the word سبح ; L = the Dedication, so the word إله toward Him ; M = the Matter, the source of the source, the space and time, so the word Ummah and Iman. This is etymology. The arabic fusha is a pur miracle, mubiyn, the Qiblah of the human languages, and a language is a system of believes, originally, surah 2.31 and Genesis verse 2.19. The word علم same etyma, same archetyps within, except the first letter : ع the observation, perception. Never trust the translations of arabic. Islam is not about Peace, since the war is permitted, but the Effort muslim gives in this matter, this world, rules according to Qur'an and the Sunnah of the last Allah's messenger.
Professor thank you so much for the video! I see that you took my advice from the last video and started color-coding the verb forms! When I made that comment, I was more thinking of changing the color of text for each word that belongs to a particular verb-form group, but the way you did it also works. I have no idea if you are able to change the color of the actual text, it seems like you are since you already make your fusha verbs & nouns red, but maybe you might want to think about doing that for each word, as I said earlier. You could keep putting all the fusha in red, and then attribute a specific color to each verb-form group, and maintain that color for future videos. So that would mean that all Form-I words would be in black, say for example, and all Form-II words would be in green, etc., and that in future videos, Form-I words would still be in black, Form-II words still in green. Just an idea. I am happy however with the way you did it in this video, I just think the intention would be even clearer if you did it word by word, and I think the board would stay a little neater that way too. Anyway, great video, professor. Keep making us these awesome videos and thank you so much.
السؤال المحير هو كيف عرفت النملة إسمه أما ما تحاول عبثا تحقيقه بمساعدة الأصنام الصهيوماسونية لسرقة حقوق الملكية و السند للكتاب العزيز فلن يتحقق و لو نبت لك قرنان و في وجهك عين واحدة و سمعت الدواب تكلمك...كلام الناس لا يتجذر من اللامعنى المجرد إلا إن كان كذبا غلفت فيه الحقائق... انسوا حلم الترجمة و ارحلوا بلا رجعة و لا شالوم إلى يوم الدين.
Is engineered the right word to describe Arabic? It arose organically as an oral language. Once Arabs adopted writing, they detected patterns within the oral language's internal logic. They didn't invent the patterns, but they do tailor foreign loan words to fit traditional Arabic sound shifts. (filim, aflaam, bank, banook, etc.)
Yes, we believe it is the correct descriptor for Arabic. The triliteral root system seems to have come from the Akkadians long before the first attested Arabic writing was formed. When we say "engineered," we don't mean that it was invented in a singular event; we simply mean that it been organized in such a way as to have been done intentionally with minimal need for the grammatical exceptions that are so common in most non-Semitic languages. This Semitic languages are just as much mathematical as they are literary. The Ten Arabic Verb Forms are like a chest of drawers with ten drawers (Hebrew and Aramaic have seven) that are each purposed to hold verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. All of the main parts of speech are formed with mathematical precision.
@@CGEJordan I think I understand, but it seems like I'm talking more about these verb forms existing in pre-literate Semitic and you're describing how early writers of Semitic, using cuneiform, used shorthand roots to sound out those pre-literate languages. By writing it down that way, they created linguistic rules that scholars would follow later. When I've studied the very complex grammar of Slavic, it, too, presents patterns that provide a shortcut to learning. It has seven cases to decline nouns and adjectives and I've used the same drawer imagery to move among the cases with predictability. But, again, those patterns originated as pre-literate speech in the Iron/Bronze/Stone ages. Writers and grammarians were simply making "science" from the "art" of speaking. The Semites jabbed an "M" into the clay to build the word school from DRS because that's how people already spoke. At least I think so!
Hey Professor, Thank you so much for doing these videos. I won't lie, THIS series you do on the Arabic roots are the most helpful of all the series you do. I'm about 10 years into learning Arabic and this is where I find the most value. As you go through all the different derivatives of the root, I find myself remembering words I'd forgotten over the years, and of course the way you do it is so organized that I'm then able to reorder these words in my brain and have a more organized vocab list (in my brain). I will make one suggestion: It would be SUPER helpful, if you could color code the derivatives based on their Form #. Like, the root & all derivatives of form I be one color, the root & all derivatives of form II be another color, etc. I love the spider-web map you make, and I think that's the right way to do it, but since you're not putting them into list-form, then it would be super helpful for us to have colors to help our brains differentiate between forms. My second suggestion is rather selfish 😂, and it is this: Make more videos from this series! If you could get to doing one (or two; man I really am selfish 😂) of these videos each week, and just keep doing them until you've gotten like the 500 HFVs all done, I think that would be a MAJOR contribution to the field. Arabic Language learners (as I'm doubtless you are aware) still suffer from a poverty of good learning resources (although the situation is getting better recently), and something like that would just be... Well, I can only tell you how thankful I would be. And that is incredibly thankful. Incredibly, super extra thankful. Anyway, thanks for your work here, professor. If I were in Jordan, I would be one of your students, lol! ~Alex from Ohio
Glad you are doing video series again. Your videos, book and CD were a salvation when starting to learn Jordanian Arabic in 2016. Seems like since that time you have bred friendly competition! You were pretty much alone in the field 10 years ago.
Thanks a lot. Is it Fussa or Urdun? Is it similar to Modern Standard Arabic? I love the strategy of derivative words of the same family, but since I am barely intermediate I need to know if it will be understood elsewhere or it is more local. Thanks again!!
Fareed, please make your dots fatter. Even on my 24 inch screen I'm missing the "J" and "KH" letters through lack of legible dots. (I've bought your 101 book twice)
نظام is also a regime, people in power, e.g. قوات النظام جيش النظام THE Army, the official one. ----------------------------- نظامي is also an adjective for someone who complies with regulations, rules etc. Someone who doesn't make troubles at some kind of institution, a good employee.
