tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21190966747646894642024-03-21T15:27:54.833+08:00::Quranic Language Department, Petaling Jaya::Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119096674764689464.post-35857885884149367422008-11-27T23:36:00.002+08:002008-11-27T23:40:20.264+08:00Learn Arabic For Free<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Iganl1MACRadQq0Y4nCRZXvATHkSz7gNNMbFIKWDgSm_es-J-tmUKfjmpLHqY5tedDvcIuj0RsfKPHETB9Jgc1RNIwTofr0ADHGYjIW9b50GsWQdybZTYBtVWRmSLazSvN93jWY5_p4/s1600-h/arabic_zaidlearn.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Iganl1MACRadQq0Y4nCRZXvATHkSz7gNNMbFIKWDgSm_es-J-tmUKfjmpLHqY5tedDvcIuj0RsfKPHETB9Jgc1RNIwTofr0ADHGYjIW9b50GsWQdybZTYBtVWRmSLazSvN93jWY5_p4/s400/arabic_zaidlearn.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262138663442528546" border="0" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Arabic is the <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">mother tongue to</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">over 225 million</span></span> people in Africa and Asia, and there are as many as <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">246 million non-native speakers</span></span> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language#cite_note-0">source</a>). Arabic is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritania, and Chad. In short, learning a bit of Arabic makes whole lot of sense, whether you are doing it for religious, social or business purposes.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LEARN ARABIC FOR FREE?</span></span><br />Here are <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">four</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> (4) learning spaces</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> </span>to get you started:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.arabicpod.net/" target="_blank">ArabicPod</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">This website created by Mohamed Moshaya and Ehab Saleh is dedicated to providing innovative and effective methods for learning Arabic. They use web 2.0 technologies such as podcasts, videos, games, etc. to provide a rich learning experience. Although, they only launched recently (March 2008), their free online lessons have been <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">downloaded more than a million times</span>. You will really enjoy their podcasts, which involves two guys having an engaging chat while learning Arabic (Thumbs up!). I also like that one can rate and provide comments to each podcast, which again facilitates learning conversations and continuous improvement. <span>All of their audio podcasts can be freely listened to and downloaded.</span> For most of the other content, there is a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">subscription fee</span> which is setup to cover the costs of running the website. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I hope that some noble investor will come in soon to cover the costs, so that we all can enjoy the rest for free. </span><br /></div></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.madinaharabic.com/" target="_blank">Madinah Arabic</a></span><br />This free site has been designed to teach the Arabic language inspired by one of the most popular courses being used today - the Madinah Book Series by Dr. V. Abdur Rahim which is used by Madinah University to teach English speaking students the Arabic language. This course will eventually contain </span><span style="font-size:100%;">(under development) </span><span style="font-size:100%;">everything an individual needs to learn the Arabic Language (Classical and Modern Standard) from complete beginner to advanced level. If you prefer a straight-to-the-point kind of course (efficient learning!), you have found it right here. I don't mind that the audio provided is being chunked to phrases and words, but it would be wonderful if we could<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> also download the full lesson in one MP3 file (conveniently access lessons on our IPods and Mp3 players). But, besides that it is a splendid and noble initiative.<br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span><ul><li style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm" target="_blank">Babel - Arabic</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >This is an online course in Arabic. It teaches you basic sentences, how to write, how to count and introduces Arabic grammar. All with sounds! This course will teach you about 400 of the most common words in Arabic. All lessons are the product of cooperation between an Arab native and a non-Arab who have managed to learn the language.</span></span></div></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ></span></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://arabic.speak7.com/" target="_blank">Learn Arabic (speak7)</a></span><br />Learn Arabic for free, their lessons are available to anyone who wants to speak Arabic, from grammar, vocabulary, expressions, phrases and more.<br /></span></li></ul>Whether you are 10 or 72 years-old, I suppose you might find one of these four learning opportunities a useful starting point to learn the basics in Arabic. I like the variety of approaches each initiative has taken to facilitate learning. Some people might want to learn through learning conversations (e.g. <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.arabicpod.net/" target="_blank">ArabicPod</a></span>), while others might want to learn efficiently in a book-style format with audio support (e.g. <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.madinaharabic.com/" target="_blank">Madinah Arabic</a>).</span> Either way, these four learning initiatives provides us with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">different approaches to satisfy different learning styles</span>. Why not use all four to get us started?<br /><br />Finally, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycWPfKR1P8" target="_blank">click here</a> if you want to learn Arabic in less than <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">9-minutes (video). WOW!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0