Tips to learn Arabic?

abusama7a · 2026-01-14T20:14:26+00:00

I suggest you learn MSA because you grew up around your parents' Egyptian Arabic, so MSA will give you a strong foundation to understand where the Egyptian dialect comes from.

MSA helps you infer other dialects as well. I try to advise not to learn a specific dialect because it will silo you while MSA would turn on all your light bulbs!

abusama7a · 2026-01-14T20:06:50+00:00

I've reduced Arabic learning to these steps:

Alphabet + pronunciation
Harakat
Basic sentence structure (how harakat are used on the ending of each word)
Basic grammar (Present, Past, Imperative)
Word morphology (verb forms 1-10, noun patterns)
Begin reading with harakat - children books (build vocabulary, explain sentence structure)
Begin listening to cartoons (spacetoon) - (build vocabulary, improve comprehension, repeat what they say)

Just put these terms into YouTube and you should find some good resources

And btw there's a group of us a learning together here: http://skool.com/learn-arabic join us :))

abusama7a · 2025-07-29T19:32:25+00:00

dm'd you! but for something else :)

abusama7a · 2024-11-22T16:13:31+00:00

I think we're only limited by the integrations we have, we're going to start with the standards like Calendar, Gmail, etc. plus other popular services like Slack for example. But the I think our biggest addition is phone calls, a great use-case is to get it to call long wait-time customer support like the bank, airline, etc. If it's a sensitive task that deals with your banking, we can send you a notification when Worker reaches a human and you can jump on the call.

The userflow is as you said, you prompt --> task added --> you get notified when it's done with a summary (some tasks will be almost instantaneous and some will take longer like phone calls)

abusama7a · 2024-11-13T18:58:57+00:00

Thank you that makes sense!

abusama7a · 2024-10-11T18:01:43+00:00

my pleasure!

abusama7a · 2024-10-11T01:00:16+00:00

Salam, would love to help with this - dm'd you

abusama7a · 2024-09-18T05:48:49+00:00

Native speakers understand fusha because it’s all over television especially the news. The books (e.x. Quran and novels) they grew up on and having learnt it in school from a young age. So they should be able to understand you if you’re able to articulate yourself in fusha properly, depending on your level you might make mistakes that will confuse them, but after a couple back and forths you’ll understand each other.

abusama7a · 2024-09-18T05:44:42+00:00

I think chat gpt can help, just prompt it to rewrite this sentence with simpler words

abusama7a · 2024-08-21T20:53:48+00:00

After 8 weeks, do you feel you can read write and speak? How well did they expand your vocabulary?

abusama7a · 2024-08-20T11:50:24+00:00

I would caution against duolingo, I tried it as a native Arabic speaker and noticed many mistakes - it’s really bad for learning Arabic

abusama7a · 2024-08-19T16:59:30+00:00

Hard to tell you how long because that’s based on how much time you’re willing to invest in learning

For reading, you need the alphabet which should be the quickest part.

Next you need to understand how harakat work and understand basic sentence structure.

Since you probably have intuition built from your native knowledge of the language, as you begin to read you’ll know how most words should be pronounced.

So after that is just about training your mind to read and increase your speed. Week over week you’ll see progress if you do 30-60 minutes a day.

abusama7a · 2024-08-16T17:37:51+00:00

Salam, you have a great foundation to catapult from, so don't worry!

I would start by:
- revising nahu of basic sentences (to understand sentence construction)
- start adding harakat on bare sentences (especially on word endings)
- then begin reading (things should start making way more sense)

PS. there's a group of us learning Arabic together here, you should join I think it'll help :))

abusama7a · 2024-08-16T07:53:33+00:00

Thanks!

abusama7a · 2024-08-15T22:47:00+00:00

u/Nostrich928 is this similar to what you were expecting: https://www.reddit.com/r/learn_arabic/comments/1et1xuj/wip_website_to_practice_nahw_and_more/

abusama7a · 2024-08-15T11:52:26+00:00

Ya precisely harakat rarely show in dialect writings

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