Learn Arabic — The Fast, Easy & Fun Way

Around 292 million people speak it as their first language. Many more people can also understand it as a second language. The Arabic language has its own alphabet written from right to left, like Hebrew. Since it is so widely spoken throughout the world, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, the others being English, French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Arabic has influenced many other languages around the globe throughout its history. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu), Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Maldivian, Pashto, Punjabi, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Sicilian, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, Tagalog, Sindhi, Odia and Hausa and some languages in parts of Africa. Conversely, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages, including Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Persian in medieval times and languages such as English and French in modern times. All varieties of Arabic combined are spoken by perhaps as many as 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world.

Watch films. 

Watching films in Arabic with English subtitles is one of the best ways to learn. Also what’s the same movies if possible in Arabic subtitles with English audio. Use the shadowing technique and speak the dialogues along the speaker to be able to learn the accent, the word pronunciation, the places in a sentence where breathers are taken and so on and so forth.

Learn with songs. Just like films, songs are an excellent way to learn in a playful way. Improve your listening in Arabic, I recommend you listen to the authentic audio resources available online that could start from a radio, audiobooks, podcasts, Spotify playlists etc.

Read authentic Arabic resources that you can find either in the library or online. You could start from children’s storybooks, and progress your way to magazines, articles online blogs and newspapers. When you read, read aloud and if you are not very comfortable reading in front of anybody you could read in your room in front of a mirror to a plant or to your pet.

Build your vocabulary. Children’s books will also prove to be a contributing resource for your vocabulary building. Maintain a journal or a diary where you capture the ‘most used words’ in the Arabic language. These commonly used words will be of help to you when you start to build your first conversation. A word of caution kindly do not try to be overambitious trying to capture tricky, huge or fancy words which have no use in the day to day life. If you try to capture such heavy words in the beginning it will prove to be counterproductive and will discourage you from learning the language further.

Find a partner. 

After having learnt a few basic days to day phrases and words it is always a good idea to try speaking Arabic with an Arabic speaker and what could be better than speaking with the Arabic native who’s available at a time that you want to speak with him. You could try finding a conversation partner online at sites such as Hello Learner, Italki, Language partners, Conversation partners, Tandem

Don’t be scared to try and make mistakes. Accept it graciously. It’s natural. Mistakes help you catch yourself and play a vital role in helping you succeed. 

Practice. Practice is something you can never avoid and should never take lightly. It would cost you a lot in the long run if you choose to ignore practising. 

Sign up for an intensive course. To further your learning to the next level join a comprehensive course quch qs Arab Academy, Arabic online etc, that helps you master the language, on all four parameters reading,  writing, listening, speaking. 

Be consistent.

Study every day even if it is for less time. Studying on an everyday basis bit by bit will help you retain information better and make you proficient in the language faster than learning it for hours at a stretch on weekends. 

Arabic is the liturgical language of 1.8 billion Muslims, and Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. It first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living in the Arabian Peninsula bounded by eastern Egypt in the west, Mesopotamia in the east, and the Anti-Lebanon mountains and Northern Syria in the north, as perceived by ancient Greek geographers. It is a Semitic language, like Hebrew and Aramaic.

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