Listening plays a crucial role in learning a new language. Many learners concentrate on reading and writing. These definitely help in learning grammar rules and improving vocabulary. However, both active and passive listening can be very helpful in improving your spoken Arabic and help you speak better.

Learning Arabic by joining a class is always a good choice as it helps you interact with the teacher and understand all the essential elements of the language. Learning through an online course can be further beneficial in terms of saving time and effort as you can learn at your own pace in the comfort of your own space. Also, you can choose to learn in a group or individually through a one-on-one session with the tutor. This gives you an opportunity to interact with the teacher and clarify all your doubts during or after the session.

Are there are Arabic listening courses?

When you join a course to learn  Arabic, you can check if there are any audio lessons or podcasts available that can be used for further practice and to improve your listening skills. These days there are many apps available that have recorded audio. These can be useful in improving your listening skills and thus improving your pronunciation and grammar.

Find listening courses and resources with a practice exercise

When you start a listening course, it is important to find one that helps you practice through exercises. These exercises can help in learning and improving vocabulary and you can further use those words in your own sentences to ingrain them in your memory.

Resources to listen to Arabic

You can immerse yourself in listening to Arabic both actively and passively. Active listening can be when you are listening to a lesson or academic learning where you are completely involved and assimilating everything that you listen to. Passive listening can help you learn while you relax. Watching movies, listening to music or any other audio for entertainment, YouTube videos or any other such activity can be a passive activity but it can still help you learn the language.

You may not learn everything just by listening, but listening to Arabic helps you to familiarize yourself with the language. You get an understanding of how the various words are pronounced and how they sound. As there are many dialects in Arabic, listening can help you understand the difference between them and also help you make a decision about the dialect that you would like to learn because it becomes easy to start with one dialect.

Repetitive listening is the key to memorization. You can listen to Arabic music or watch movies and observe the commonly used words.

Even if you do not understand every word that is spoken, you can still understand the meaning of the sentence or expression based on the context.

As reading and writing complement each other, listening and speaking can also complement each other. As you listen to Arabic more, the better you understand and thus you speak better.

Find ways to immerse yourself into Arabic listening and slowly improve your speaking ability as well.