Hi Steve, I've always admired polyglots! In my own family too there have been a few, may be that's why! Like you, I'm a non-Arab anglophone who started learning Arabic as an adult, and rather late too. So, I should know what's it like to learn from scratch, esp. when one is older! From the collection of Arabic books you have it is apparent that you are well passed the beginner level, but just for completeness, since others are going to chime in here, I include sources for beginning students which include grammar books for the classical language. Hope it's Ok with you. This is a longish list in which, where possible, I've included links to both, the Arabic originals and their English translations, or just the Arabic. But I strove to include audio files where possible. The list is in 3 parts and includes links to simpler (intermediate level) books one can buy on history (with downloadable links to audio files), then later in the remaining two parts, originals on travel literature and later still (part3) samples of more formal classical literature. I also added links to drama series either in the Arabic original dialogue or dubbed / Arabic subtitles. I know you are beyond the following now, but someone starting may find these grammar books helpful: Some useful Arabic resources, text and audio/ video file -part1 Grammar Books that I used: 1a) A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language 2nd Rev ed. Edition by J. A. Haywood, H. M. Nahmad www.amazon.com/New-Arabic-Grammar-Written-Language/dp/085331585X 1b) The answer key is separate: Key to a New Arabic Grammar Reprint Edition by H. M. Nahmad (Author), John A. Haywood (Author) www.amazon.com/Key-New-Arabic-Grammar-Nahmad/dp/0853310688 No audio files!! 2a) Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course Revised Edition by Eckehard Schulz (Answers included) www.amazon.com/Standard-Arabic-Elementary-Intermediate-Eckehard-Schulz/dp/0521774659/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=Grammar+of+Modern+Standard+Arabic+Eckehard+Schulz&qid=1605140101&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0 2b) Audio files: Standard Arabic Elementary-Intermediate Course Schulz mp3 archive.org/details/02StandardArabicAnElementaryIntermediateCourse 3a) Standard Arabic Student's book: An Advanced Course Paperback - Student Edition, 4 Mar. 1999 by James Dickins (Author), Janet C. E. Watson (Author) www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Arabic-Students-book-Advanced/dp/0521635586/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_1/262-8543218-0644501?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0521635586&pd_rd_r=ccd596bc-43f4-4faa-9240-31bf196cd20c&pd_rd_w=cybEQ&pd_rd_wg=FpbiH&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=WX531GGYVB8KJRGMT24M&psc=1&refRID=WX531GGYVB8KJRGMT24M 3b) Audio files for Standard Arabic Student's book An Advanced Course (by James Dickins Janet C. E. Watson) used to be available but I haven't seen them lately! Younes et al also brought out Arabiyyat al-Naas in 3 parts! Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One): An Introductory Course in Arabic 1st Edition by Munther Younes (Author), Makda Weatherspoon (Author), Maha Saliba Foster (Author) www.amazon.com/Arabiyyat-al-Naas-Part-One-Introductory/dp/0415516935/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/136-7767578-4384069?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0415516935&pd_rd_r=cf20ed6e-b453-4caf-9adc-93a8be95c00b&pd_rd_w=XtmDa&pd_rd_wg=ZU3K2&pf_rd_p=ee4a13a5-1d19-4a45-a832-a74924eb9541&pf_rd_r=VYTT8VGBD018D98VBJH1&psc=1&refRID=VYTT8VGBD018D98VBJH1 But I do not know if there are audios for these. Readers I used: Tales from Kalila Wa Dimna: For Students of Arabic by Munther A. Younes (with audio CD) www.amazon.com/Tales-Kalila-Wa-Dimna-Students/dp/0879501316 There is also a 2nd edition now: Kalila wa Dimna: For Students of Arabic 2nd Edition by Munther Younes www.amazon.com/Kalila-wa-Dimna-Students-Arabic/dp/0367359693/ref=pd_sbs_14_2/136-7767578-4384069?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0367359693&pd_rd_r=18ba86b6-9d8b-4714-9f94-39a1b962c460&pd_rd_w=ald3R&pd_rd_wg=845CN&pf_rd_p=ee4a13a5-1d19-4a45-a832-a74924eb9541&pf_rd_r=3VB3WYXTJJMJSH6DFQPD&psc=1&refRID=3VB3WYXTJJMJSH6DFQPD I guess you can use the same CD for the 2nd edition Since, like me, you also like history, the series "silsilat-un-naajiheen سلسلة الناجحون" has many intermediate level Arabic books on various historical personalities, e.g. Zenobia, the queen of Palymyra / Tadmur (زنوبيا in the series سلسلة الناجحون www.goodreads.com/book/show/21523012), Hanibal of Carthage ( هنيبعل بطل قرطاجة also in the series سلسلة الناجحون www.goodreads.com/book/show/54787673) The series overall has a good collection, ranging from ancient historical figures (as above) to modern ones like Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison etc. All available at Dar ul Ilm Lilmalayin site: malayin.com/books.aspx?CID=50&SCID=239 Good reads also has list for viewing only: www.goodreads.com/search?q=+%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%86&qid=cwbvodFUB3 The font is not great, quite small. Generally, all Hindawi publications in Arabic have a clear, bright font of a good size. For example Hindawi Zenobia and Shajarat ud Durr etc, are really attractive publications: Zenobia زنوبیا : أوبرا تاريخية كبرى ذات أربعة فصول pdf www.hindawi.org/books/26085284/ If you buy the relevant books from the series marketed by Dar ul Ilm Lilmalayin, you can follow the text by reading and listening to the mp3 audio files available at links below. Come as MP3 RAR files: ابن بَطُوطة رَحّالة العرب archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0321 ليوناردو دافنشي الرسام الخالد archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811_0205 زنوبيا ملكة تَدْمُر archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0354 بِيتهوفن أبو السنفونيات archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0349 archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811 مدام كوري مكتشفة الراديوم archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811_0203 هنيبعل بطل قرطاجة archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811_0218 الإسكندر فاتح العالم القديم archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0333 شكسبير شاعر الإنسانية archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0404 بستور عدو الجراثيم archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0344 شجرة الدر أول ملكة في الإسلام archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0401 نابليون بونابرت قاهر أوربا archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811_0214 عبد الرحمن الداخل صقر قريش archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0409 المتنبي شاعر العرب archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0340 أديسون الذي أضاء العالم archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0331 I'm afraid not all the books in the series may not have been rendered into audio books, but what we have is plenty.
Hello, Steve, I think that you're partly wrong about the idea that we can't teach critical thinking. When I tutored basic philosophy in my college, I was shocked by people who did not distinguish between unintentionally incorrect statements and deliberate lies, and such problems can be corrected. However, like you, I strongly believe that language and literacy classes simply waste time when they engage in critical thinking exercises instead of their core task: language teaching.
You could open a Bookstore with all these books! Anyway, I agree: The difficulty is finding interesting material at the right difficulty level. Especially the low-intermediate (B1) which is missing for most languages (except English probably). As for me, I like cartoons/comics so I'm in luck since even in quite rare languages you could find cartoons (and comics), and with a right level since it's for children.
I understand your desire for quality, Interesting reading material in your target language. I love to read about stuff that interests me in Modern Greek, but have trouble finding QUALITY audio or video content in Greek on YT about specific subjects. I think its excellent if you can learn a language by reading it through its history and culture, in that context! I too am a sucker for books.
Hi Steve, Thank you always for the great tips about learning languages. I am half turkish half arabic , and so I just wanna mention that the spoken arabic is a bit different than the one we read in books newspaper,etc... and every arabic country have their own dialect and accent which makes it difficult to choose which dialect you are aiming to learn (I know some arabic friends who have difficulties to fully understand another arabic dialect). So could you tell us how you are dealing with these issues?and have you decided to choose which dialect to focus on? I might could help by looking for some good sources like a tv/youtube program and perhaps an audio files.
I feel like you're holding yourself back a bit. Those exercise books are very useful, but it's a matter of getting used to them. I started using one about more than 2 months ago, and yeah...the text was intimidating and I found it to be a drag, but after a while, I started getting the hang of it. The other thing that's great with those books is it transitions your passive vocabulary to active which was something I was struggling with before. I began to associate words to explanatory phrases. Repetitive questions helped as well because I was being asked to answer and put my thoughts into sentences within the language. Then they had gradual grammar which wasn't overwhelming. Slowly my vocabulary bank grew and grew. Sometimes it's not about the quantity but quality. You can expose yourself to so much and get very little from it or you can expose yourself to so little and get more from it. I noticed it stuck with me as well in contrast to before with LingQ where simply reading and listening wasn't improving my active vocabulary. It did improve my word acquisition though. Regardless, I'd recommend giving it a try and training your mind to allow slow improvement for the faster improvement to come. Mine does have audio for the stories which is extremely helpful.
If you'd like to improve your active and make the passive words active as well i can help you to practice i speak MSA we can speak and help each other to improve 😊😊
Arabic resources that worked for me: 1. Arabic Stories For Language Learners (Hezi Brosh, Lutfi Mansur) - Arabic stories, audio, English translations 2. Easy Arabic Reader (Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar) - Arabic stories (incremental difficulty), online audio 3. Tales from Kalila wa Dimna for students of Arabic (Munther Younes) - Arabic stories, some glossary but no English translations 4. Арабский язык с Джохой ("the Arabic language with Joha") (in Arabic and Russian, by Ilya Frank) - vocalised Arabic texts, audio, Russian translations, glossary.
I am converting all these great stories to texts, which I can use on my computer. That makes learning even more efficient but the process itself is slow and requires attention, I have been fixing some errors, which occur, which also help me learn.
I grew up knowing Arabic but I never learnt how to read or write ✍️ and now I am 13 and it’s hard to just read. But good luck in your jorney of Arabic because just one letter could change the whole word and just the way you pronounce it can change the meaning plus the fact that there are so many different dialects. I personally grew up in Kuwait but I am an Egyptian so I know both dialects and they are kinda different in many ways.
ohohoho, I have to strongly disagree on your opinion that critical thinking can't be taught. It's insufficiently and superficially taught in high schools, for sure, but I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy, and man, that changed how I think about *everything!* I absolutely developed my critical thinking skills a lot. That's basically what a philosophy degree is all about: learning skillsets and tools for critical thinking and deeper understanding. Anyways, that doesn't belong in a language learning book, I agree! And besides your little provoking comment there about critical thinking ;) , this was really helpful :)
I e been married to a Palestinian for 20 years and within the first couple years I realized that the books I bought weren’t useful because there’s old ways of speaking like Egyptian Arabic and gulf or khaliji Arabic and then there’s his which I think is more Levantine. I’m using Duolingo to learn the letters which I gave up on for quite a while but now because I want to learn to read the Quran in Arabic (huge goal) I started learning the letters. Now I’m trying to readi the family WhatsApp conversations lol, which is the closest I’ll get to their specific dialect and have it actually be useful. Although I know that the Quran Arabic will be quite difficult (my husband doesn’t even know some words) it’s still fun to learn. I’d be interested in learning Greek and Hebrew too but Arabic is the one I have an upper hand in. One thing about being around a language is that if you tend to be like me and tune out because you don’t understand (when people are talking around you) you won’t get anywhere, and I’ve been spoiled because most of my in-laws speak English and there wasn’t a huge push for me to learn I did live in the Middle East for a couple years though and that’s how I learned most of the words (not reading or writing other than numbers though). Had I paid more attention and put more focus I could’ve been more fluent and learned a lot more.
I would definitely recommend comics in Arabic over general short stories, the pictures and constant flow of conversation make for a very useful learning resource. I personally started with Tintin in Arabic, using the audio on RUclips to supplement my learning.
I agree with you, manga and comics are the best to learn any language, regarding the Arabic comics, then in arabcomics.net you can find lots of translated comics, manga , fotoromanzi and BD from many foreign languages to Modern standard Arabic
You may be too far past this book now, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Elijay’s “speaking Arabic, a course in eastern Arabic”. It’s a course for a dialect as implied, and one that when I start Arabic I intend on using. I’m interested in the different dialects, and another course that I haven’t heard as much praise on but is on my radar is “modern Iraqi Arabic”. Since you seem to be willing to pick up a bunch of course books and browsing them, I’d love to hear your opinion on these and other popular colloquial Arabic courses
My first language is Arabic. I think reading books to Ibrahim elfiqy or novels to Ahmed khaled tawfeek will help you. BTW there are lots of easy books that can help u learn Arabic but be careful that there are thousands of Arabic books that have complicated words and phrases even Arab can't understand and look for it in dictionary. Words that we don't actually use in diary life like books written by Abass Alaqad
Thank you. At this stage I am looking more for audio, MP3 files. Happy scribe can convert these into text, with time stamps, so that I can study them on LingQ, in sentence mode with matching audio, looking up words and phrases as I read and listen. If you are aware of any such audio files out there please let me know, especially if they are free of copyright so that I can share these with other members at LingQ.
@@Thelinguist there is a channel on RUclips called Arabian fairy tales I think it is good but about Arabic podcasts I listen have a religious attitude so I don't know a lot..
I believe we have people preparing the mini stories in Swahili. If there are people prepared to do so for other languages we will also add them to LingQ.
I study polish A2 at university, we mostly stick to a single book selected by our teacher. In my opinion, working on grammar tasks and comprehension questions three times a week is not very engaging. I wish our course was more focused on finding good content with text and audio. I am curious if language education will see a shift in the next 20-40 years closer to the method you use at lingq. Thanks for the videos as always. Greetings from Norway!
have you tried LingQ for Polish? Have you tried real polish.pl with Piotr?Once you get past the beginner material, publio.pl has great audiobook/e-book resources, which you can import into LingQ.
@@Thelinguist I used LingQ with Polish about 6 months ago, and I enjoyed it very much! I found Piotr's episodes on LingQ actually, he makes great content. I try to balance my grammar-heavy university course with a lot of listening, "Polish with John" is my favorite podcast at the moment. His podcast has free transcripts, and are aimed around the intermediate level. I will definitely check out publio.pl, thanks for the advice!
Have you tried watching old anime series dubbed to Arabic? that's what i used to enjoy as a child and teenager, especially the literary classics: A little princess, Dady long legs, The secret garden, Anne of green gables... . Give it a try, you might enjoy it :)
Found the University of Michigan Modern Written Arabic materials very useful, as well as the Foreign Service Institute books. Both have audio. Volume III of the FSI does not.
I like to read paper books, it is different and somewhat more immersing than reading on a screen. I often give up on them, and try again in a year, but I often notice that I have made a decent progress this way. It takes mea long time to get to a level I can comfortably read, but for the advanced learning I think the books are the best. Very hard to find decent books for beginners though.
i am not yet finished learning english language after 30 years . its very odd for me that a person can speak 20 language. Im from Iran and if you liked to have someone to speak with in Persian , I will be happy to help you.
It may depend on whether they are embedded in the video or not and whether the sub-titles are in the same dialect as what is spoken. Where you find a video with spoken standard Arabic, it should be possible to extract the mp3 file and then use happyscribe.com to generate the transcript, time stamped which you can import into LingQ, using Import e-book to maintain the time stamps and study in sentence mode.
Hi Steve! My advice for Arabic texts is to use the Qur'an and listen to recitations as much as you can, that way you get practice with reading and simultaneous listening. Plus, there are numerous translations and in-depth grammatical analyses of the Qur'an. That's how I learned Arabic. Good luck & happy studies!
Knowledge leads to critical thinking. Exactly. Critical thinking without knowledge is like a computer chip without a programmer, or the Utility Belt without a Batman.
isn't history too tough to read for a beginner? Like, I would start with The Little Prince, although that is a difficult book in English let alone in Arabic. But my point being, what about children's book like Cinderella or popular books which by now you have memorized which when read on Arabic would help facilitate understanding the main ideas of the texts. I suppose you have already tried that but thought it worth it to bring it up still. You do look for challenges. Hmmm, at midway into the video you bring up audio and reading alongside each other. Ok, I see your point. Your point of view on the inability of teaching critical thinking left me completely utterly baffled.
@@Thelinguist I understand. I just read more carefully how does lingq works and the way you study. Indeed, the best way to learn is to use what you currently love with the usual approach of listening, reading, speaking, writing, the subjects or topics which you love. And at ELL classroom we do tell that to students. Cinderella, which was just an example, would not fit your approach but rather bore you to death. Thank you for taking the time to answer!
If you could getting Arabic well it will lead you to totally different world, all human race civilization had emanated from Arabic history what a wonderful richesse language 💕
Let's not get carried away with our cultural chauvinism. There have been many independent centres of civilization, all contributing to our common human heritage.
Help us all, please! I don’t know of any novel translations. You must have bestsellers? This would help me to be honest, otherwise it gets boring learning the academics of arabic.
Thank you. At this stage I am looking more for audio, MP3 files. Happy scribe can convert these into text, with time stamps, so that I can study them on LingQ, in sentence mode with matching audio, looking up words and phrases as I read and listen. If you are aware of any such audio files out there please let me know, especially if they are free of copyright so that I can share these with other members at LingQ.
@@meganesergerie5382 the best is to get translated novels, most of the English novels and European novels got translated into Arabic You can check Neelwafurat.com Regards
I've wanted to learn as many languages as I could but wonder whether I should do this or not. I'm 34 years old and learning languages is something I wanted to this since my early years. I feel like I'm too old now since most videos I've seen are people who start when they are young . They are adults now but they started when they were children. I'd like to learn maybe 7 or 8 languages. Currently I'm learning japanese but would like more. Any advice?
I've heard Steve say it's difficult to find good content to import for Arabic. However, you may still consider the tips in this article: lingq-support.groovehq.com/help/tips-on-finding-content-to-import-in-your-target-language I hope you find something suitable!
At 8:02 you are totally right you can get up to date news from online newspapers and magazines like these Albayan.ae Alkhaleej.ae Rosaelyousef.com Alarabiya.net
@@Thelinguist Sorry it is rosaelyoussef.com And unfortunately they don't have podcasts But Alarabiya has a channel in youtube, it is very famous Best regards
I think a big cause of demotivation is studying language too long without socializing, because I've noticed my slump started when my phone broke and I lost access to all the Japanese speakers on HelloTalk.
Hi Steve,
I've always admired polyglots! In my own family too there have been a few, may be that's why! Like you, I'm a non-Arab anglophone who started learning Arabic as an adult, and rather late too. So, I should know what's it like to learn from scratch, esp. when one is older!
From the collection of Arabic books you have it is apparent that you are well passed the beginner level, but just for completeness, since others are going to chime in here, I include sources for beginning students which include grammar books for the classical language. Hope it's Ok with you. This is a longish list in which, where possible, I've included links to both, the Arabic originals and their English translations, or just the Arabic. But I strove to include audio files where possible. The list is in 3 parts and includes links to simpler (intermediate level) books one can buy on history (with downloadable links to audio files), then later in the remaining two parts, originals on travel literature and later still (part3) samples of more formal classical literature. I also added links to drama series either in the Arabic original dialogue or dubbed / Arabic subtitles.
I know you are beyond the following now, but someone starting may find these grammar books helpful:
Some useful Arabic resources, text and audio/ video file -part1
Grammar Books that I used:
1a) A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language 2nd Rev ed. Edition
by J. A. Haywood, H. M. Nahmad
www.amazon.com/New-Arabic-Grammar-Written-Language/dp/085331585X
1b) The answer key is separate:
Key to a New Arabic Grammar Reprint Edition
by H. M. Nahmad (Author), John A. Haywood (Author)
www.amazon.com/Key-New-Arabic-Grammar-Nahmad/dp/0853310688
No audio files!!
2a) Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course Revised Edition
by Eckehard Schulz (Answers included)
www.amazon.com/Standard-Arabic-Elementary-Intermediate-Eckehard-Schulz/dp/0521774659/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=Grammar+of+Modern+Standard+Arabic+Eckehard+Schulz&qid=1605140101&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0
2b) Audio files: Standard Arabic Elementary-Intermediate Course Schulz mp3 archive.org/details/02StandardArabicAnElementaryIntermediateCourse
3a) Standard Arabic Student's book: An Advanced Course Paperback - Student Edition, 4 Mar. 1999
by James Dickins (Author), Janet C. E. Watson (Author)
www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Arabic-Students-book-Advanced/dp/0521635586/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_1/262-8543218-0644501?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0521635586&pd_rd_r=ccd596bc-43f4-4faa-9240-31bf196cd20c&pd_rd_w=cybEQ&pd_rd_wg=FpbiH&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=WX531GGYVB8KJRGMT24M&psc=1&refRID=WX531GGYVB8KJRGMT24M
3b) Audio files for Standard Arabic Student's book An Advanced Course (by James Dickins Janet C. E. Watson) used to be available but I haven't seen them lately!
Younes et al also brought out Arabiyyat al-Naas in 3 parts!
Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One): An Introductory Course in Arabic 1st Edition
by Munther Younes (Author), Makda Weatherspoon (Author), Maha Saliba Foster (Author)
www.amazon.com/Arabiyyat-al-Naas-Part-One-Introductory/dp/0415516935/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/136-7767578-4384069?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0415516935&pd_rd_r=cf20ed6e-b453-4caf-9adc-93a8be95c00b&pd_rd_w=XtmDa&pd_rd_wg=ZU3K2&pf_rd_p=ee4a13a5-1d19-4a45-a832-a74924eb9541&pf_rd_r=VYTT8VGBD018D98VBJH1&psc=1&refRID=VYTT8VGBD018D98VBJH1
But I do not know if there are audios for these.
Readers I used:
Tales from Kalila Wa Dimna: For Students of Arabic
by Munther A. Younes (with audio CD)
www.amazon.com/Tales-Kalila-Wa-Dimna-Students/dp/0879501316
There is also a 2nd edition now:
Kalila wa Dimna: For Students of Arabic 2nd Edition
by Munther Younes
www.amazon.com/Kalila-wa-Dimna-Students-Arabic/dp/0367359693/ref=pd_sbs_14_2/136-7767578-4384069?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0367359693&pd_rd_r=18ba86b6-9d8b-4714-9f94-39a1b962c460&pd_rd_w=ald3R&pd_rd_wg=845CN&pf_rd_p=ee4a13a5-1d19-4a45-a832-a74924eb9541&pf_rd_r=3VB3WYXTJJMJSH6DFQPD&psc=1&refRID=3VB3WYXTJJMJSH6DFQPD
I guess you can use the same CD for the 2nd edition
Since, like me, you also like history, the series "silsilat-un-naajiheen سلسلة الناجحون" has many intermediate level Arabic books on various historical personalities, e.g. Zenobia, the queen of Palymyra / Tadmur (زنوبيا in the series سلسلة الناجحون www.goodreads.com/book/show/21523012), Hanibal of Carthage ( هنيبعل بطل قرطاجة also in the series سلسلة الناجحون www.goodreads.com/book/show/54787673)
The series overall has a good collection, ranging from ancient historical figures (as above) to modern ones like Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison etc. All available at Dar ul Ilm Lilmalayin site: malayin.com/books.aspx?CID=50&SCID=239
Good reads also has list for viewing only:
www.goodreads.com/search?q=+%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%86&qid=cwbvodFUB3
The font is not great, quite small. Generally, all Hindawi publications in Arabic have a clear, bright font of a good size. For example Hindawi Zenobia and Shajarat ud Durr etc, are really attractive publications:
Zenobia زنوبیا : أوبرا تاريخية كبرى ذات أربعة فصول pdf
www.hindawi.org/books/26085284/
If you buy the relevant books from the series marketed by Dar ul Ilm Lilmalayin, you can follow the text by reading and listening to the mp3 audio files available at links below.
Come as MP3 RAR files:
ابن بَطُوطة رَحّالة العرب archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0321
ليوناردو دافنشي الرسام الخالد archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811_0205
زنوبيا ملكة تَدْمُر archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0354
بِيتهوفن أبو السنفونيات archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160810_0349
archive.org/details/cutegirle84_gmail_20160811
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I'm afraid not all the books in the series may not have been rendered into audio books, but what we have is plenty.
This is one of the most thoughtful comments I’ve ever seen on RUclips, so congrats!
Thank you for this!
Hello, Steve,
I think that you're partly wrong about the idea that we can't teach critical thinking. When I tutored basic philosophy in my college, I was shocked by people who did not distinguish between unintentionally incorrect statements and deliberate lies, and such problems can be corrected. However, like you, I strongly believe that language and literacy classes simply waste time when they engage in critical thinking exercises instead of their core task: language teaching.
You could open a Bookstore with all these books!
Anyway, I agree: The difficulty is finding interesting material at the right difficulty level. Especially the low-intermediate (B1) which is missing for most languages (except English probably).
As for me, I like cartoons/comics so I'm in luck since even in quite rare languages you could find cartoons (and comics), and with a right level since it's for children.
I understand your desire for quality, Interesting reading material in your target language. I love to read about stuff that interests me in Modern Greek, but have trouble finding QUALITY audio or video content in Greek on YT about specific subjects.
I think its excellent if you can learn a language by reading it through its history and culture, in that context! I too am a sucker for books.
Hi Steve,
Thank you always for the great tips about learning languages.
I am half turkish half arabic , and so I just wanna mention that the spoken arabic is a bit different than the one we read in books newspaper,etc... and every arabic country have their own dialect and accent which makes it difficult to choose which dialect you are aiming to learn (I know some arabic friends who have difficulties to fully understand another arabic dialect).
So could you tell us how you are dealing with these issues?and have you decided to choose which dialect to focus on?
I might could help by looking for some good sources like a tv/youtube program and perhaps an audio files.
LingQ's Arabic text to speech has improved a lot. It's very impressive and near perfect at this point.
I find the natural voice in sentence mode to be more effective than the test to speech.
I'm also trying to learn arabic. Hope to reach fluency by a year or so
You are just great, Steve. Thanks!
I feel like you're holding yourself back a bit. Those exercise books are very useful, but it's a matter of getting used to them. I started using one about more than 2 months ago, and yeah...the text was intimidating and I found it to be a drag, but after a while, I started getting the hang of it. The other thing that's great with those books is it transitions your passive vocabulary to active which was something I was struggling with before. I began to associate words to explanatory phrases. Repetitive questions helped as well because I was being asked to answer and put my thoughts into sentences within the language. Then they had gradual grammar which wasn't overwhelming. Slowly my vocabulary bank grew and grew. Sometimes it's not about the quantity but quality. You can expose yourself to so much and get very little from it or you can expose yourself to so little and get more from it. I noticed it stuck with me as well in contrast to before with LingQ where simply reading and listening wasn't improving my active vocabulary. It did improve my word acquisition though. Regardless, I'd recommend giving it a try and training your mind to allow slow improvement for the faster improvement to come. Mine does have audio for the stories which is extremely helpful.
If you'd like to improve your active and make the passive words active as well i can help you to practice i speak MSA we can speak and help each other to improve 😊😊
@@g2bonna874 I'm looking for a female partner...Idk if you're male or female.
اقرأ لي
Is an application for Arabic Audio books
Audiolaby
Is a channel in youtube with Audio articles and briefs of books
Arabic resources that worked for me:
1. Arabic Stories For Language Learners (Hezi Brosh, Lutfi Mansur) - Arabic stories, audio, English translations
2. Easy Arabic Reader (Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar) - Arabic stories (incremental difficulty), online audio
3. Tales from Kalila wa Dimna for students of Arabic (Munther Younes) - Arabic stories, some glossary but no English translations
4. Арабский язык с Джохой ("the Arabic language with Joha") (in Arabic and Russian, by Ilya Frank) - vocalised Arabic texts, audio, Russian translations, glossary.
I am converting all these great stories to texts, which I can use on my computer. That makes learning even more efficient but the process itself is slow and requires attention, I have been fixing some errors, which occur, which also help me learn.
I grew up knowing Arabic but I never learnt how to read or write ✍️ and now I am 13 and it’s hard to just read. But good luck in your jorney of Arabic because just one letter could change the whole word and just the way you pronounce it can change the meaning plus the fact that there are so many different dialects. I personally grew up in Kuwait but I am an Egyptian so I know both dialects and they are kinda different in many ways.
Thank you for the inspiration Steve! Keep trying ❤
Thanks so much Steve ❤️ great video as always
ohohoho, I have to strongly disagree on your opinion that critical thinking can't be taught. It's insufficiently and superficially taught in high schools, for sure, but I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy, and man, that changed how I think about *everything!* I absolutely developed my critical thinking skills a lot. That's basically what a philosophy degree is all about: learning skillsets and tools for critical thinking and deeper understanding.
Anyways, that doesn't belong in a language learning book, I agree! And besides your little provoking comment there about critical thinking ;) , this was really helpful :)
I e been married to a Palestinian for 20 years and within the first couple years I realized that the books I bought weren’t useful because there’s old ways of speaking like Egyptian Arabic and gulf or khaliji Arabic and then there’s his which I think is more Levantine. I’m using Duolingo to learn the letters which I gave up on for quite a while but now because I want to learn to read the Quran in Arabic (huge goal) I started learning the letters. Now I’m trying to readi the family WhatsApp conversations lol, which is the closest I’ll get to their specific dialect and have it actually be useful. Although I know that the Quran Arabic will be quite difficult (my husband doesn’t even know some words) it’s still fun to learn. I’d be interested in learning Greek and Hebrew too but Arabic is the one I have an upper hand in. One thing about being around a language is that if you tend to be like me and tune out because you don’t understand (when people are talking around you) you won’t get anywhere, and I’ve been spoiled because most of my in-laws speak English and there wasn’t a huge push for me to learn I did live in the Middle East for a couple years though and that’s how I learned most of the words (not reading or writing other than numbers though). Had I paid more attention and put more focus I could’ve been more fluent and learned a lot more.
You should try the book: 'Gateway to Arabic' by Dr Imran Hamza Alawiye ( who also teaches on his RUclips channel). I tried it and I really like it.
I would definitely recommend comics in Arabic over general short stories, the pictures and constant flow of conversation make for a very useful learning resource. I personally started with Tintin in Arabic, using the audio on RUclips to supplement my learning.
I agree with you, manga and comics are the best to learn any language, regarding the Arabic comics, then in arabcomics.net you can find lots of translated comics, manga , fotoromanzi and BD from many foreign languages to Modern standard Arabic
@@maa7528 Thanks, I'll check that out
Hi Steve,
I am big fan of yours, I am from Libya and I am Arab, If you want any help I could provide it to you,
Thanks (:
You may be too far past this book now, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Elijay’s “speaking Arabic, a course in eastern Arabic”. It’s a course for a dialect as implied, and one that when I start Arabic I intend on using. I’m interested in the different dialects, and another course that I haven’t heard as much praise on but is on my radar is “modern Iraqi Arabic”. Since you seem to be willing to pick up a bunch of course books and browsing them, I’d love to hear your opinion on these and other popular colloquial Arabic courses
Elihay*
My first language is Arabic. I think reading books to Ibrahim elfiqy or novels to Ahmed khaled tawfeek will help you. BTW there are lots of easy books that can help u learn Arabic but be careful that there are thousands of Arabic books that have complicated words and phrases even Arab can't understand and look for it in dictionary. Words that we don't actually use in diary life like books written by Abass Alaqad
Thank you. At this stage I am looking more for audio, MP3 files. Happy scribe can convert these into text, with time stamps, so that I can study them on LingQ, in sentence mode with matching audio, looking up words and phrases as I read and listen. If you are aware of any such audio files out there please let me know, especially if they are free of copyright so that I can share these with other members at LingQ.
@@Thelinguist there is a channel on RUclips called Arabian fairy tales I think it is good but about Arabic podcasts I listen have a religious attitude so I don't know a lot..
It all depends on our interests. I'm not that interested in fairy tales, but thank you.
@@alaasaqr6388 I just checked out the Arabian Fairy Tales channel and I like it. Can you tell me if it is MSA?
@@alannahmay3823 yes.
Hi Steve, can you'll also try and add, languages like Swahili, Amharic and Yoruba because there are little to no resources on those languages?
I believe we have people preparing the mini stories in Swahili. If there are people prepared to do so for other languages we will also add them to LingQ.
@@Thelinguist
Vielen Dank
If you want to add Isizulu then I'd be glad to
I study polish A2 at university, we mostly stick to a single book selected by our teacher. In my opinion, working on grammar tasks and comprehension questions three times a week is not very engaging. I wish our course was more focused on finding good content with text and audio. I am curious if language education will see a shift in the next 20-40 years closer to the method you use at lingq.
Thanks for the videos as always. Greetings from Norway!
have you tried LingQ for Polish? Have you tried real polish.pl with Piotr?Once you get past the beginner material, publio.pl has great audiobook/e-book resources, which you can import into LingQ.
@@Thelinguist I used LingQ with Polish about 6 months ago, and I enjoyed it very much! I found Piotr's episodes on LingQ actually, he makes great content. I try to balance my grammar-heavy university course with a lot of listening, "Polish with John" is my favorite podcast at the moment. His podcast has free transcripts, and are aimed around the intermediate level. I will definitely check out publio.pl, thanks for the advice!
i study Arabic MSA about 2 years only from internet - news sites youtube
etc but now i will try a tutor from one of the tutor sites to start speaking
Have you tried watching old anime series dubbed to Arabic? that's what i used to enjoy as a child and teenager, especially the literary classics: A little princess, Dady long legs, The secret garden, Anne of green gables... . Give it a try, you might enjoy it :)
Not a big fan of anime. but thanks.
Found the University of Michigan Modern Written Arabic materials very useful, as well as the Foreign Service Institute books. Both have audio. Volume III of the FSI does not.
There are online courses which are free
I like to read paper books, it is different and somewhat more immersing than reading on a screen. I often give up on them, and try again in a year, but I often notice that I have made a decent progress this way. It takes mea long time to get to a level I can comfortably read, but for the advanced learning I think the books are the best. Very hard to find decent books for beginners though.
I think they will be helpful
Hi Steve, have you considered learning a specific dialect or are you concentrating on MSA only?
MSA only for now , dabbled in Egyptian and Levantine.
انا مستعد لتقديم المساعدة لمن كان يريد تعلم العربية الفصحى،خاصة ممارسة اللغة، وبلا مقابل طبعا
i use assimil arabic
رائع جدا
أنا اتحدث العربية واحاول تعلم اللغة الانجليزية في الفترة الحالية
i am not yet finished learning english language after 30 years . its very odd for me that a person can speak 20 language. Im from Iran and if you liked to have someone to speak with in Persian , I will be happy to help you.
Definitely very useful to hear .... though I’ve been trying to import some stuff from Arabic RUclips videos onto lingq and it isn’t working :(
It may depend on whether they are embedded in the video or not and whether the sub-titles are in the same dialect as what is spoken. Where you find a video with spoken standard Arabic, it should be possible to extract the mp3 file and then use happyscribe.com to generate the transcript, time stamped which you can import into LingQ, using Import e-book to maintain the time stamps and study in sentence mode.
Hi Steve! My advice for Arabic texts is to use the Qur'an and listen to recitations as much as you can, that way you get practice with reading and simultaneous listening. Plus, there are numerous translations and in-depth grammatical analyses of the Qur'an. That's how I learned Arabic. Good luck & happy studies!
Please mention more on how you learnt arabic using the quran thanks
Knowledge leads to critical thinking. Exactly. Critical thinking without knowledge is like a computer chip without a programmer, or the Utility Belt without a Batman.
أشكرك شكرا جزيلا يا سيد سايف كوفمان، أريد ان أتعلم الإنجليزية و يا ريت تساعدني ، أنا من دولة الجزائر
Where can i get those books?
Steve, do a 'Cribs' style episode. Take us through your house in Canada or the Police State. Would be interesting to see your lifestyle....
If you are looking for a great book on Arab history definitely check out A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani.
I read it a long time ago and will read it again now.
Расскажите про учебники персидского языка.
تعلم اللفات شئ ممتع ومفيد
isn't history too tough to read for a beginner? Like, I would start with The Little Prince, although that is a difficult book in English let alone in Arabic. But my point being, what about children's book like Cinderella or popular books which by now you have memorized which when read on Arabic would help facilitate understanding the main ideas of the texts. I suppose you have already tried that but thought it worth it to bring it up still.
You do look for challenges. Hmmm, at midway into the video you bring up audio and reading alongside each other. Ok, I see your point.
Your point of view on the inability of teaching critical thinking left me completely utterly baffled.
I started with our mini-stories at LingQ as I always do. Not so interested in stories that I already know like Cinderella,
@@Thelinguist I understand. I just read more carefully how does lingq works and the way you study. Indeed, the best way to learn is to use what you currently love with the usual approach of listening, reading, speaking, writing, the subjects or topics which you love. And at ELL classroom we do tell that to students.
Cinderella, which was just an example, would not fit your approach but rather bore you to death. Thank you for taking the time to answer!
Could you Please share your Video on Twitter, I have many Arabic translators who would like to listen to you and also Arabic publication houses
I do share them on Twitter , usually 3 tweets per video.
Giant!
Stick to watching historical Arabic series
If you could getting Arabic well it will lead you to totally different world, all human race civilization had emanated from Arabic history what a wonderful richesse language 💕
Let's not get carried away with our cultural chauvinism. There have been many independent centres of civilization, all contributing to our common human heritage.
I can help you to practice your Arabic
Help us all, please!
I don’t know of any novel translations. You must have bestsellers?
This would help me to be honest, otherwise it gets boring learning the academics of arabic.
Thank you. At this stage I am looking more for audio, MP3 files. Happy scribe can convert these into text, with time stamps, so that I can study them on LingQ, in sentence mode with matching audio, looking up words and phrases as I read and listen. If you are aware of any such audio files out there please let me know, especially if they are free of copyright so that I can share these with other members at LingQ.
Thanks. the problem is extracting 20-30 minus mp3 files out of this great source.
@@meganesergerie5382 the best is to get translated novels, most of the English novels and European novels got translated into Arabic
You can check
Neelwafurat.com
Regards
BurbI would appreciate novels from Arabic authors also!
I've wanted to learn as many languages as I could but wonder whether I should do this or not. I'm 34 years old and learning languages is something I wanted to this since my early years. I feel like I'm too old now since most videos I've seen are people who start when they are young . They are adults now but they started when they were children. I'd like to learn maybe 7 or 8 languages. Currently I'm learning japanese but would like more. Any advice?
I have learned most of my languages past the age of 34.
Hi Steve. Aren't there any e-books (importable to LingQ) available in Arabic?
I've heard Steve say it's difficult to find good content to import for Arabic. However, you may still consider the tips in this article: lingq-support.groovehq.com/help/tips-on-finding-content-to-import-in-your-target-language I hope you find something suitable!
hahaha, be patient
At 8:02 you are totally right you can get up to date news from online newspapers and magazines like these
Albayan.ae
Alkhaleej.ae
Rosaelyousef.com
Alarabiya.net
I confess that I find these pages difficult to read. Do these sites have podcasts somewhere?
@@Thelinguist
Sorry it is rosaelyoussef.com
And unfortunately they don't have podcasts
But Alarabiya has a channel in youtube, it is very famous
Best regards
I think a big cause of demotivation is studying language too long without socializing, because I've noticed my slump started when my phone broke and I lost access to all the Japanese speakers on HelloTalk.