The ARABIC Language (Its Amazing History and Features)
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Video chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 General Information about the Arabic Language
01:07 Varieties of Arabic
02:06 Arabic is Semitic language
02:22 Old Arabic
03:51 Classical Arabic
05:04 Neo-Arabic & Middle Arabic
06:02 Modern Arabic
06:47 Diglossia in Arabic
08:21 The Arabic script
09:24 Arabic phonology
10:30 Morphology in the Arabic language
11:36 Verbs in Arabic
13:05 Word order in Arabic
14:00 Cases in Arabic
15:05 Sentence breakdown
16:30 Final comments
17:22 The Question of the Day
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The language breakdown starts at 8:14, for people who are more interested in that part. I hope you like it!
such a wonderful video 👍👍👍
I’m Arab btw ☺
it’s not necessarily VSO we have freedom, we can reorder it in anyway, VOS, SVO, SOV, OVS or OSV
Sayyara: car
ends with ta marboota not ha
case ending are used, the ones who don’t use them are the ones who find it difficult to do, but in general we use them
Langfocus Thanks for your hard work.. I think this is the basics of Arabic
Langfocus thank you Paul .شكراً لك 😉
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I really enjoyed watching this video it’s amazing how much information you got about the arabic language
Well done man and good luck
Modren standard Arabic is beter so all the Arabic can understand you.
انت شخص رائع شكرا لك لأيصال ثقافتنا للعالم اسأل الله أن يجزيك خيرا
I subscribe to your channel .
Thank you, it’s amazing! But there are some problems with the russian subtitles.
الحمد لله،،،تعلمت اللغة العربية في مدرسة الخيرات ماليزيا🇲🇾،،،و أحب اللغة العربية جدا!
هل تعلم ان الغه العربيه اصلها من اليمن🇾🇪
@هايدرو مانجو إن أولاً عربي من اليمن،قد عرفت
yo orang malaysia
@kilah yoooo,,, Sarawak
هلا بماليزيا أخى اقرأ فى الشعر العربى ممتع جدا و نورت العربية و متحدثيها😄😄
As a native Arabic speaker i did not think this video would be beneficial for me but i have been taught a lot from you , I appreciate your work
lol me too!
I am creating Arabic content for beginners. Your suggestions and advice would be highly appreciated.
Same
But I am trying to build a commuinity of MSA in discord but I am a lazy discord-server builder
So am I.
I’m Arab and I speak Arabic and I feel happy everytime I see foreigners trying to learn Arabic
ⵎⴻⵎ-ⵉⵙ ⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ cool story bro
Do you recommend Modern or Literary Arabic ?
@TinyVines I recommend the standard Arabic (fusha) if you learned this you can easily learn Arabic accents after
Thank you- my local community college teaches dialects local to regions in their fourth year of Arabic language course series
ⵎⴻⵎ-ⵉⵙ ⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ It’s geographical differences that cause languages to change, not religion… Furthermore, the Muslim world is multinational as in there are many countries in the Muslim world. it’s not just one country you know… Everyone in the world is part of a country or nation. Common sense m8 😂
I’ve been learning arabic for 3 months but It’s still too hard for me tbh🥺 I didn’t use to learn language yet which has gender & number as well so it’s quite tough, eventhough in my language we have similar vocabulary a lot but the grammar was completely opposite. I was able to read arabic letters because of I’m muslim in which I have to read the Quran everyday, yet I totally didn’t grasp it without reading the translation. However I don’t want to give up in learning this one prodigious and gorgeous language.✨
تحيات من إندونيسيا و أنا أحب اللغة العربية جدا🇲🇨🙏🏻
good luck brother may Allah help you.
I am creating Arabic content for beginners. Your suggestions and advice would be highly appreciated.
salam serumpun dari Malaysia🇲🇾 ..sya juga masih baru belajar bahasa arab ini😁👍🏻
Telling the difference between genders is a lot easier in arabic than other languages that uses gender. The majority of feminine words end in ة. There are some exceptions like موسيقى (music) and أم (mom), and all the color adjectives that start with . take on a different feminine form like this:
أحمر/حمراء
أصفر/صفراء
أخضر/خضرا
And so on. Just remember for tbe colors that start with أ: to make it feminine, move the أ to the end and remove the ء from the ا and put it at the end. Simple, right?
@Alex Erm… tapi kenapa dia pakai bendera Monako
As a native France and english speaker I have learned classical Arabic and memorised the holy Quran, it was hard at the start but arabic is a very logical language, once you understand how it works, then you can take any 3 root letters and understand the meaning with the changes that are added to it, it then becomes a much easier language to learn compared to others. I appreciate your videos very much.
I am creating Arabic content for beginners. Your suggestions and advice would be highly appreciated.Thank
Why
@AppleJuice it’s the freedom of choice, as you westerns say
ماشاء الله، مبارك عليك حفظ القرآن الكريم.
@Arabic Mumtaz Yes if there is anything you need
I am a Muslim born in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 I’ve been trying to learn Arabic but I can’t learn by myself it’s so hard I want to learn so I can read the Quran in Arabic so I can understand it And recited but I’m still having a hard time 😢😢😔😩😫😭
Hey Jude thanks I’ll definitely will look into it Inshallah 🙏🏾
ياريت لو يترجم لي أحد لو بلغة اخري غير الانجليزية لأنني لا استطيع ترجمة الانجليزيه من هاتفي
Try to move to another Arabic country to practice the language cuz I think it’s the best way
@محمد سالم يقول هو مسلم انولد ب بورتوريكو و كان يحاول يتعلم اللغه العربيه بس مايقدر يتعلم بنفسه عشان صعب جدا انه يتعلم عشان يقدر يقراء القرآن بالغه العربيه عشان يقدر يفهمها بس للحين يعاني من الصعوبه
@محمد 🥰🙏
As a native Arabic speaker, I advise any who wants to learn Arabic is to start with modern standard Arabic, then shift to the different dialects. Starting with standard Arabic will give you a solid ground and it will be your means of communication when you get stuck between various Arabic dialects from North Africa to the Gulf. Good luck 🤞
As an Indonesian, there are some school that teaches Arabic. We’ve learning it since elementary school. For us, it’s more important to learn the modern standard Arabic because some of us do learn some Islamic book (kitab) like fathul qarib, etc. The books we use to learn Arabic grammar is Jurumiyah and Imrithi.
This amazing.. I’m from Kenya and currently in the middle East..it’s a year now and I can communicate in Arabic … along side my native language, Swahili and English too.. it’s amazing to know more than 2 different languages.
مرحبا بك بيننا ياصديقي ❤
hi inakaa ngumu
We Somali Kenyan it’s must to take Arabic and I got A-
Very good.trying to learn too
As a native Arabic speaker .. I can see how difficult my language is .
Respect for all the the foreigners that are learning Arabic
shukran 😌
As a Muslim. I respect and am happy that you got a wonderful understanding of Islam.
I’ve never met anyone (including non-muslims) who is not impressed by the language of the Qur’an.
Secularly speaking the strict *parallel* chains of custody, the fact so many millions are able to memorize it cover to cover letter by letter, is incredibly mind boggling.
Think about it, if by some magic all the digital and hard copies of the Qur’an disappeared today. 10 hafiz in my neighbourhood can re-write the exact book compiled in 13 AH. They can do it in roughly 12 hours while 10 other hafiz proof-reads them. In 24 hours it would be verified by millions of hafiz in 6 continents. In 48 hours it can distributed again world wide as if it never disappeared
I’m a future philologist and language lover. And I have to say that beyond all, the Arabic language is one of the most beautiful and challenging languages I’ve ever tried to learn. Also has a tremendously rich literature, especially during the Golden Age of Islamic science during the Middle Ages. I remember clearly that in The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes how to be a librarian you have to know Latin, Ancient Greek and Arabic
keep going ❤️❤️
I am Arabic native
if have any questions
please feel free to ask
@Kareem Hegazy شكراً ، يا كريم. السلام عليكم 😊😊
@Kareem Hegazy So, I do have a question, I’ve been reading some pages online, and the ء is written sometimes, but sometimes not. I mean, could you explain me? Is the hamza like the tashkele that isn’t written in normal Arabic? Or written only on formal occasions? For instance, الاستاذ or الأستاذ? Thanks brother السلام عليكم 👍👍😃
السلام عليكم
I’m a native arabic speaker and i’ll be happy to help you ❤️ well, we have 2 types of همزة,
1) Hamzatu al wasl (همزة الوصل)
Which is always at the beginning of a word and written as alif(ا)… It’s only pronounced when starting the word, if this hamza comes in the middle of sentence then it’s silent. If one is continuing from a word on to another word starting with a hamzat al wasl; then it will be ignored
2) hamzatu al qatae (أ) (همزة القطع)
Which is written and pronounced regardless of its position in the word
I hope this is clear to you and if you have any questions, I would be honored to help you 🙏❤️ بالتوفيق
@Klaus-Heinz Morales we say الأستاذ… You can make difference between hamzatu al wasl (ا) and hamzatu al qata’e (ء) by adding و or ف, for example when we say وأستاذ or فأستاذ you will notice that you pronounce (ء) so you write it as you pronounce it
But when we say وارتفع or فارتفع you notice that you don’t pronounce the “ء” (you go from “و” directly to the letter after hamza “ر”) so you keep just the alif “ا” (in writing) without putting hamza “ء”
I speak Arabic , French, English, and i’m learning Spanish & Chinese… That’s why I understand your confusion about some grammar 😄
The Arabic language is like mathematics, memorize the roots of words and you will understand all the variables because the Arabic language system in grammar was very complex, so scientists gathered it and turned it into a logical system similar to mathematics. If you like the language of numbers, learn Arabic
The great Arabic mathematician Al Horezmi invented algebra
@Deniz Sincar al khawarizmy lol not horezmi
It is not true, arabic grammar is not particularly logical, no more than any other grammar.
You know, through history, there have always been scientists trying to influence languages grammar, to theorize and to freeze it. They are still trying by the way, and they never get to it. Because languages are wild, they obey no law, they just cannot get influenced by a few savant individuals : theyre objects that belong to people, shared properties. Theyre not freezable either, because linguistical change is unconscient, unintentional (most of the time) and ineluctable : consequently, even supposing ones did influence their grammar and impose linguistical reforms on people in middle ages, arabic has necessarily evolved since and is never as logical as it was before.
@Agathtarin do you speak Arabic?
@Jules B I learnt its grammar from two books of arabic and a few good websites, and i even compared its conjugation system with hebrew one –which was fascinating by the way.
Arabic may be difficult to people whose mother thongues are of a too different typology (like english or french), but its not universally hard i mean. You know, its relative.
As an arab, I congratulate you for the authenticity of the information you have presented
I am a native Arabic speaker from Yemen. My advice for learners is to only learn modern standard Arabic only . Do not waste your time learning any dialect. If you know modern standard Arabic you can understand any arabic dialect easily.
I am learning fushah, but really not understand when people use arabic amiyah, except only a little bit
@Lisiva Alwini once you become more knowledgeable with fushah, you will understand 70% of most dialects thus understanding the meaning of sentences, because the words used in dialects are derived from fushah.
@ghilas hamaili yeah i got it, so that’s why i lear fushah, but still too hard to understand when hear amiyah even i am learning fushah, that more familiar, i heard from one of channel wich teaches amiyah, it said that we learn it self, even the root of language come from fushah
I completely agree on the part to learn Fushah, but no the learner won’t understand on anyone specially Gulf+north african dialects.
however it’s important after learning MSA to start watching Egyptian, syrians, gulf shows.
in order to understand some hard words and expressions.
and then its all easy
It is better to learn (first) the Standard Classical Arabic, because it is the origin, the basis, that will allow you to understand the language fundamentals and from there you can navigate easily to learn and understand the multiple Arabic accents (dialects) across the Arab-world. The Quran, Arabic books, news papers, TV shows, official communications etc are all presented in the classical Arabic language. So If somebody limit himself to learning a single Arabic accent he will be isolated and he can only talk to a taxi driver or ordinary man of that specific country on a limited subjects.
العربيه الفصيحه هي الاصل والافضل العاميه بالنسبة لي اعتبرها خرابيط اتمنى مستقبلا ترجع العربيه الفصيحه للتحدث اليومي بين الناس
I would never call it “navigate easily”.
In fact it sometimes feels more like relearning everything from the scratch, because dialects use a different logic from MSA, and often closer to each other (if we take Egyptian and Levantine for example).
@KnightOfEternity yes but if you learn the modern standard Arabic you can talk with all Arabic people and they can talk back to you in MSA but when you learn a specific dialect you are limiting your self to it.
@DrNKBH Yes, but you will probably still have problems, because, not everyone is comfortable speaking MSA, even if they understand it.
Also, you will not understand what Arabs talk between themselves, and will not understand their movies or songs.
Basically, all Arabs are billingual and every learner should strive to learn fusha and at least one dialect. In fact many Arabs can, to some extent, understand more than one dialect, because they watch each other media. All it makes learning Arabic a very long journey.
The classical Arabic is far too difficult why else do you think the standard form was created, because it is easier
I started learning الفصحى and مصري, but ended up refining شامي, because I found a Palestinian teacher who I really clicked with. Also, shamii is such a beautiful, rich dialect. It’s so great to learn all that you can, as I can switch to مصري if I am not understood and that usually fairs better. I’m thankful for all forms of Arabic!
@Charlotte Stone آلف شكر (:
The system with the roots and templates completely surprised me. It seems so much more logical than what we have. I speak a Slavic and a Finno-Ugric language, plus English ofc, but I’ve never even heard about anything similar. One day I would like to learn some Arabic. I’ve had so many good experiences with Arabic speaking people, one of the nicest people from all over the World, love you guys. Great video, thank you!