The Key to Unlocking Arabic (ض ح ك) 

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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.

That’s so deep and helpful👏👏

nice

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

I really like the concept of the "tuxedo" form. I will definitely remember that now!

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!!

Do u have a book,please