Category: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
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فكرة إنك تتعلم اللغة العربية وحدك، من غير معلم يجلس معاك كل يوم، بتخوف شوية. وده طبيعي. بس خليني أقولها من الأول: ممكن. مش هتبقى رحلة سهلة، وهيبقى فيها أيام هتحس فيها إنك مش بتتحرك…
I’ve read a lot of student writing over the years. And I can always spot the same problem in the first paragraph. The vocabulary is fine. The verbs are conjugated right. But every sentence just……
If you’ve ever written an Arabic sentence and just guessed which preposition to use — you’re not alone. I see this every single week with new students. Prepositions are tiny words. One or two letters,…
If you’ve been studying Modern Standard Arabic for a while, you’ve probably hit this wall already. You’re reading a sentence, you understand every word in it, and then you get to the negation and your…
If you’ve been studying Arabic for even a few weeks, you’ve probably run into a wall. You can read a sentence. You can maybe even say a few things about yourself. But the second someone…
If you’ve ever tried to say something like “the man who called me” or “the book that I read” in Arabic and just… froze — this article is for you. Here’s the thing about Arabic…