I am a native Arabic speaker. I was very lucky that my grandmother was a reputed Arabic teacher and I learned from strong arabic teachers during my school time. Hence I grow up to have an excellent Arabic command and it helped me in interpretation English & Arabic. The secret was at very young age my grandmother taught me to converse in formal arabic so imagine 2-3 years old speaking formal arabic (fosha). The way she taught me was by making stories for me to remember. So in your example she will tell me a story using the verb connected to a character in the story. Now I am learning Chinese and Japanese in similar way using storytelling to memories the alphabet and grammar. BTW great channel and may Allah bless your work!
I learned هو هما هم هي هما هن انت انتما انتم انتِ انتما نتن انا نحن then from there conjugating all of the verbs in that same order and you can do it on your finger tips
Yeah, I learned that way too and I think most Arabic learners I know have done too. I wondered why he didn't include the plurals. Maybe he just wanted to keep it simple. The plurals can get confusing with the silent alif, nun fatha vs nun fatha + alif lol
saying that u've "never seen" a book starting with 'ana' might be true to u, but not a rule ! all my life studying in an arab country we were taught using what u call "the western order" ........ so it maybe just a preferance of some "nahaweyeen" not an accual rule to impose on learners. other than that great channel and effort indeed !
The arabic conjugation order makes good sense for spanish. Having spent a lot of time starting with the yo form of spanish verbs I suggest starting with the third person singular because it avoids all the specific to first person irregulars as a starting position.
Could you also do a video in the future about the present tense? I feel like it is more challenging to grasp. Also do conjugations vary through dialects?
I have already done it for you guys! here's the link! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rhe17sfKkQI.html Yes, the conjugations do vary a lot through dialects. In fact, in some dialects you can get away with using almost no verbs at all. How dialects are even still considered Arabic baffles me. If the Prophet Muhammad (saaws) were to hear the Arabic dialects of today I very very much doubt that he would recognise them as being his language. But having said that, I like dialects and they are really good fun. I just prefer not to confuse my students with it until they are pretty confident with Arabic.
Good one, Sam! :-) By the way, when it comes to conjugating the way native grammarians did it vs. the ordinary Western way, please consider taking the time to learn the traditional way. You won't be sorry: people who created this system knew exactly what they were doing. The deeper you learn the language, the more the traditional way will make sense.
I teach the traditional way. And all of my students learn the traditional way too. Some just choose to use the western order as a stepping stone to help them memorise it in the beginning. I mentioned in this video why it makes sense in an Arabic framework to use the Arabic way and of course the classical grammarians knew far better than us what they were doing. Thanks for the comment! Salaams!
