Beginners Guide to Arabic
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The Beginner’s Guide to Arabic
GUIDE TO STUDYING ARABIC WHY STUDY ARABIC HOW TO STUDY ARABIC WHERE TO STUDY ARABIC WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE YOU START THE ARABIC ALPHABET INTRODUCTION TO THE ALPHABET THE LETTERS THE VOWELS SOME BASIC VOCABULARY RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ARABIC ONLINE RECOMMENDED BOOKS OUR NEWSLETTERS 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 11 13 17 17 18 19
Guide to Studying Arabic
Why Study Arabic
Arabic is spoken as a mother tongue by between 250 and 400 million people across 25 countries. Over a billion people can read the script even if they can’t understand the language. And Arabic happens to be one of the official languages of the United Nations. Therefore, many people learn the language for formal reasons. At about 1,500 years old, Arabic also happens to be a very old language. It was the language of scholarship throughout the rule of the Islamic empires – a period of well over 1,000 years from the 7th century right down to the 19th and even 20th. The greatest books of medicine, geology, law, philosophy, and basically any subject you can imagine were all written in the finest Arabic. Therefore, many of the most advanced people in their fields of study learn Arabic for scientific and anthropological reasons. Arabic is also the language of the Qur’an (the Islamic holy book). It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are, the Qur’an is unequivocally, undeniably and undoubtedly the greatest form of Arabic literature, and indeed the greatest form of literature, period. The beauty of this piece of literature is, in fact, quite literally, miraculous. Therefore, tens of millions of people learn this language to witness firsthand the beauty and miracle that is The Qur’an... religious reasons. In fact, emphasis has been placed on studying the Arabic language by the Prophet (PBUH) himself when he said to the effect: learn the Arabic language as you learn the Islamic obligations and practices. His companions, who, remember, were Arabs, used to learn Arabic despite
The Beginner’s Guide to Arabic
GUIDE TO STUDYING ARABIC WHY STUDY ARABIC HOW TO STUDY ARABIC WHERE TO STUDY ARABIC WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE YOU START THE ARABIC ALPHABET INTRODUCTION TO THE ALPHABET THE LETTERS THE VOWELS SOME BASIC VOCABULARY RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ARABIC ONLINE RECOMMENDED BOOKS OUR NEWSLETTERS 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 11 13 17 17 18 19
Guide to Studying Arabic
Why Study Arabic
Arabic is spoken as a mother tongue by between 250 and 400 million people across 25 countries. Over a billion people can read the script even if they can’t understand the language. And Arabic happens to be one of the official languages of the United Nations. Therefore, many people learn the language for formal reasons. At about 1,500 years old, Arabic also happens to be a very old language. It was the language of scholarship throughout the rule of the Islamic empires – a period of well over 1,000 years from the 7th century right down to the 19th and even 20th. The greatest books of medicine, geology, law, philosophy, and basically any subject you can imagine were all written in the finest Arabic. Therefore, many of the most advanced people in their fields of study learn Arabic for scientific and anthropological reasons. Arabic is also the language of the Qur’an (the Islamic holy book). It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are, the Qur’an is unequivocally, undeniably and undoubtedly the greatest form of Arabic literature, and indeed the greatest form of literature, period. The beauty of this piece of literature is, in fact, quite literally, miraculous. Therefore, tens of millions of people learn this language to witness firsthand the beauty and miracle that is The Qur’an... religious reasons. In fact, emphasis has been placed on studying the Arabic language by the Prophet (PBUH) himself when he said to the effect: learn the Arabic language as you learn the Islamic obligations and practices. His companions, who, remember, were Arabs, used to learn Arabic despite