http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/ Arabic Class Notes to help English speaking students of the Arabic Language. en-us Copyright 2006 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:11:37 -0500 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:55:26 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss After a long pause, the Arabic Class notes blog is alive again. This time, we're starting with a Vocabulary series to present a few words of Arabic everyday. I will try and give examples of usage as much as possible.... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2006/10/vocabulary_seri.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2006/10/vocabulary_seri.html Vocabulary Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:11:37 -0500 Today's lesson illustrates that its much easier to create plurals of feminine words. Remember you had to add a taa marbootah to the end of a masculine singular word to convert it to a feminine singular? This is very similar.... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/05/arabic_grammar.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/05/arabic_grammar.html Grammar Sun, 04 May 2003 22:52:31 -0500 Today's lesson concentrates on demonstrating how to create plurals in the masculine form. These nouns and adjectives are the same as the ones we have been using for several weeks to illustrate how the Arabic grammar works. Most Arabic singulars... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/05/arabic_grammar_1.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/05/arabic_grammar_1.html Grammar Sun, 04 May 2003 22:33:44 -0500 Today's lesson is very similar to the last lesson. We are learning to convert a singular to a dual. Only this time we are dealing with feminine nouns and adjectives. The rule in the Arabic grammar is the same. We... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_2.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_2.html Grammar Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:58:42 -0500 Today we learn to convert masculine singular to a masculine duals. This rule applies to nouns and adjectives. Arabic has a singular, dual and plural for everything. And its different for masculine and feminine. I am using the same words... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_3.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_3.html Grammar Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:42:31 -0500 The Arabic language is very precise. Every noun, pronoun, adjective, and verb is gender and number based: its either used in a male or female context and its slightly changed for singular, dual and plural usage. Using it interchangeably doesn't... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_4.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/04/arabic_grammar_4.html Grammar Sun, 06 Apr 2003 12:31:42 -0500 Sorry for not updating the Arabic Blog for so long, but I have been pretty busy and it does take a long time to type Arabic since I am not used to it. InshaAllah, I will try to be more... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/03/adjectives_and.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/03/adjectives_and.html Vocabulary Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:00:03 -0500 Our last Arabic class was cancelled due to bad weather, so I don't have any new stuff to post from the class notes. Below are some cool Arabic words and phrases. Read them, write them, practice them and memorize them.... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/useful_everyday.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/useful_everyday.html Vocabulary Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:58:38 -0500 ١- مُحَرَّم - Muharram ٢- صَفَر - Safar ٣- رَبِيْعُ الأَوّل - Rabi al-awwal ٤- رَبِيْعُ الثَّانِي - Rabi al-thani ٥- جَمَادِي الأَوّل - Jumadi al-awwal ٦- جَمَادِي الثَّانِي - Jumadi al-thani ٧- رَجَبْ - Rajab ٨- شَعْبَان - Shaaban... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/the_muslim_mont.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/the_muslim_mont.html Vocabulary Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:26:44 -0500 يَنَايٍر - Yanayir - January فِبْرَايِر - Fibrair - February مَارْسْ - Mars - March إِبْرِيل - Ibrel - April مَايُو - Mayu - May يُوْنِيُو - Yunio - June يُوْلِيُو - Yulio - July أَغَسْطُس - Aghustus -... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/months_of_the_y.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/months_of_the_y.html Vocabulary Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:12:21 -0500 Numbers 1- 10 وَاحٍدْ - ١ - Wahid - One إِثْنَيْن - ٢ - Ithnain - Two ثَلاَثَة - ٣ - Thalatha - Three أَرْبَعة - ٤ - Arbaa - Four خَمْسَة - ٥ - Khamsa - Five سِتَّة -... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/arabic_numbers.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/arabic_numbers.html General Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:19:02 -0500 This is a sampling of some of the most basic of Arabic words that are used in everyday language to construct sentences. Memorize these words and practice them everyday. Practicing to pronounce these will help start you start conversing Arabic.... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/common_arabic_w.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/common_arabic_w.html Vocabulary Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:12:31 -0500 Here are a few more words you can add to your Arabic Vocabulary: Verbs. Make sure you memorize these words and learn how to read, write and pronounce these. These are the basic building blocks of Arabic. As you will... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/verbs_arabic_vo.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/verbs_arabic_vo.html Vocabulary Sun, 09 Feb 2003 11:54:21 -0500 Arabic Pronouns are very descriptive, as you will see in this lesson. Arabic has the usual I, we, you, he, she and them. In addition there are differences when the person being referred to is a male or female, one... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/personal_pronou.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/02/personal_pronou.html Vocabulary Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:59:21 -0500 Assalamu Alaikum everyone. Our Arabic Class resumed 2 weeks or so ago. I will start posting the Arabic Class notes to this blog every week, inshaAllah. The following is a list of Arabic words, accompanied by a pronounciation help... http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/01/some_arabic_voc.html http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/arabicClass/archives/2003/01/some_arabic_voc.html Vocabulary Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:02:07 -0500