The Arabic Language: The Epic Story of Kings, Poets, and Scholars

Summary

هذا النص يحتوي على ملخص لنص تدوينة فيديو يناقش اللغة العربية وتاريخها التي تعود على الأقل 1600 عامًا. يغطي النص اللغات القديمة في شبه الجزيرة العربية وتطور الكتابة العربية. يتحدث أيضاً عن اللغة العربية الرسمية والعامية واختلاف الialects. ويناقش النص التحديات في تعلم اللغة العربية وطرقها، بإضافة الكلمات التي أخذت من اللغة至Arabic إلى اللغات الأخرى وتأثيرها على اللغات الأجنبية.

Takeaways

• 😀 اللغة العربية تعتبر مثيرة للاهتمام وتبدو درامية ومستفزة للكثيرين، مما يعود إلى جوها الجذائي الذي يشبه رحلة في الصحراء.
• 🕰️ اللغة العربية تعود على الأقل إلى عام 1600 قبل الميلاد، وتعتبر لغة شبه الشمال تسمى بعد عرب الجزيرة العربية.
• 🌍 اليوم، اللغة العربية هي لغة الأصليين لأكثر من 200 مليون نسمة وتتألف من الخمس لغات الأكثر شيوعًا في العالم.
• 🏛 اللغة العربية هي اللغة الرسمية لـ 22 دولة وتشتهر بتعدد الialects التي تتجاوز 30 نوعًا مختلفًا.
• 📚 اللغة العربية الرسمية الرسمية هي اللغة الرسمية في الشؤون الرسمية والإعلام، لكنها ليست اللغة الرسمية في الحياة اليومية للعربيين.
• 📝 الكتابة العربية لم تكن ذات نظام مدون起初، لكنها اتت في القرن الرابع مع تطور الأبجدية من الأراميكية إلى العربية.
• 📖 اللغة العربية كانت لغة العلوم والفلسفة والأدب خلال العصر الذهبي الإسلامي، ولعبت دورًا كبيرًا في الترجمة والنشر الثقافي.
• 🌐 اللغة العربية ساعدت في تبادل الثقافات واللغات، مما أدى إلى تأثرها مع لغات أخرى وتأثيرها على لغات مثل العبرية والعربية الحديثة.
• 📚 هناك أكثر من 12 مليون كلمة في اللغة العربية، مما يرجع إلى الأسلوب الفريد الذي يعتمد على جذر ثلاثي حروف لبناء الكلمات.
• 📖 اللغة العربية تتطلب تغييرًا في الترتيب النحوي في بعض الحالات، مما يجعلها معقدة للspeakers الناطقين بلغات أخرى.
• 📝 اللغة العربية تتميز بتعدد الكلمات التي تشير إلى نفس الشيء، مما يعود إلى الثروات الثقافية والشعرية التي كانت تتميز بها الثقافة العربية.

Q & A

لغة العربية تعتبر من أكثر اللغات صعوبة في التعلم، فلماذا؟

لغة العربية تعتبر صعبة لأنها تتضمن قواعد لغوية معقدة، و存在方言差异، واللغة الرسمية الرسمية (العربية الرسمية الحديثة) ليست اللغة الأم لل绝大多数阿拉伯人، مما يزيد من صعوبة التعلم.

ما هي المصادر القديمة التي تشير إلى وجود اللغة العربية؟

المصادر القديمة التي تشير إلى اللغة العربية تشمل الكتابة الآرامية التي وصلت إلى النصف الثاني من الألفية قبل الميلاد، وكتابة الناباتيون التي تظهر أن العرب كانوا يتمتعون بمعدلات قراءة عالية.

لماذا تسمى اللغة العربية باللغة القبائل؟

اللغة العربية تسمى باللغة القبائل لأنها تنشأ في الجزيرة العربية القديمة، حيث كان القبائل العربية تعيش في بيئة بدرية، وتعتبر كلمة 'عرب' تعني الرحالة أو سكن الصحراء.

ما هي الفرق بين اللغة العربية الرسمية والialects؟

اللغة العربية الرسمية هي النسخة الرسمية الرسمية للغة، تستخدم في الإعلام والثقافة الرسمية، بينما الialects هي اللغات ال通俗ية التي تتحدثها الشعوب في حياتهم اليومية، و她们之间存在着很大的方言差异.

ما هي الدورة التي أدت إلى توسع لغة العربية؟

الإسلام هو الدورة الرئيسية التي أدت إلى توسع لغة العربية، بعد وفاة محمد في عام 632، حيث تمدد الإمبراطورية الإسلامية على نطاق واسع وحملت اللغة معها.

لماذا تعتبر اللغة العربية مهمة في العلوم والفلسفة؟

العربية كانت لغة العلوم والفلسفة خلال العصر الذهبي الاسلامي، حيث تمت ترجمة العديد من الكتب الهامة في هذه المجالات إلى العربية، وأصبحت اللغة الرئيسية للعلماء والفلاسفة.

ما هي الخصائص الأساسية لغة العربية في الكتابة والقراءة؟

اللغة العربية مكونة من 28 حرفًا، كلها تركيبية، ودون أحرف كبيرة. الحروف تjoin معا في الكتابة، وتكتب من اليمين إلى اليسار. الحروف تغير أشكالها بناءً على الحرف المجاور.

ما هي التحديات الرئيسية التي تواجهها الناطقون الناطقين بالعربية الغير أصلية؟

التحديات الرئيسية لغير الناطقين الأصليين بالعربية تشمل فهم القواعد النحوية المعقدة، وتعلم الpronunciation الفعلية للحروف، وفهم الكلمات المشتركة التي تختلف في الlects.

كيف يمكن لمن يتعلم اللغة العربية التعرف على الlects المختلفة؟

للتعرف على الlects المختلفة في العربية، من المفيد البدء بتعلم اللغة العربية الرسمية作为一个基础، ثم الانتقال إلى تعلم الlect الذي يهم الشخص، مع التركيز على الاستماع والتحدث مع الناطقين الأصليين.

ما هي الكلمات التي يمكن استخدامها لوصف الحب في اللغة العربية؟

اللغة العربية تتميز بوجود العديد من الكلمات لوصف الحب، وتتراوح العدد بين 14 إلى 50 كلمة، مما يظهر ال 幅度 الكبير في التعبير عن المشاعر.

كيف تؤثر اللغة العربية على اللغات الأخرى؟

اللغة العربية أثرت على العديد من اللغات الأخرى، بما في ذلك العبرية والفارسية والعبرية، وحتى اللغات الأوروبية مثل الإسبانية والإنجليزية، من خلال ال借用 الكلمات والkultur.

Outlines

00:00

😀 تاريخ وتطور اللغة العربية

الفقرة الأولى تحكي عن الصوت الdramatic والغامض للغة العربية وأهمية الرحلة التاريخية لفهمها. تشير إلى أن اللغة العربية تعود على مدى 1600 عامًا على الأقل وتعتبر لغة شبه الشمال. تدور حول الألفاظ والتركيب ال社会团体، وتشير إلى أن اللغة العربية هي لغة الأصليين لأكثر من 200 مليون نسمة وتتحدث من قبل 422 مليون نسمة في العالم. وتصف اللغة العربية الرسمية في 22 دولة وتشير إلى أن ال支撑位方言s أكثر من 30 نوعًا ومختلفة جدًا حتى أن الناطقون باللغة العربية بأنفسهم قد يجدون صعوبة في فهم الناطقين باللهجة المختلفة.

05:01

🌐 الانتشار الثقافي للغة العربية

تدور الفقرة الثانية حول التأثير الثقافي الكبير للغة العربية، خاصة بعد وفاة محمد في عام 632. تحكي عن التوسع الحضاري للامبراطورية الإسلامية وتأثيرها على اللغات والثقافات. وتشير إلى أن الشعر في قلب الثقافة العربية وأنه كان له دور كبير في تبادل اللغة بين القبائل. وتصف التطور لاللغة العربية من ال南北 إلى اللغة التقليدية العربية، التي تعتبر الأعلى في اللغة العربية وتظهر في القرآن والأعمال الأدبية.

10:02

📚 الكتابة والطباعة في اللغة العربية

تدور الفقرة الثالثة حول التطور الكتابة في اللغة العربية، من الكتابة القديمة التي لم تكن تستخدم النص العربي حتى وجد النص النبطاني في القرن الرابع. وتحكي عن التطور في الكتابة العربية من النص الآرامية وكيف أضيفوا أحرف جديدة لتكون أحرف العربية الحديثة. وتشير إلى أن الكتابة العربية تبدأ من اليمين إلى اليسار وأنه يوجد اختلافات في الكتابة باختلاف اللغات.

15:04

📖 التعلم والقواعد في اللغة العربية

في هذه الجملة، تشرح ال DIFFERENT بين القواعد الرسمية للغة العربية واللغوية التقليدية، وتتحدث عن التحديات التي يواجهها الناطقون الناطقين باللهجة المحلية. وتشرح كيف يمكن للغة العربية أن تكون دشوارة للناطقين الĀthārīn، خاصة مع الحروف التي لا توجد في لغاتهم الأصلية. وتتحدث عن القواعد الأساسية للغة العربية والتركيب الكلمات وكيف يمكن للغة العربية أن تكون مبتكرة في التعبير عن الأفكار.

20:07

🎼 التأثير الثقافي للغة العربية

تدور الفقرة السادسة حول التأثير الثقافي للغة العربية على اللغات الأخرى وكيف كانت اللغة العربية متأثرة بلغات مثل الآرامية والفارسية واليونانية. وتتحدث عن التأثير العكسي الذي أثر على اللغات المختلفة بما في ذلك العبرية والفارسية. وتشير إلى أن اللغة العربية هي معقدة ولكن ليس بقدر ما يعتقد الناس، وتنصح بتعلم اللغة الرسمية كقاعدة أولية قبل الانتقال إلى ال掌握方言.

25:08

🎉 التحديات والفرص في تعلم اللغة العربية

تختتم الفقرة السابعة بمناقشة التحديات والفرص في تعلم اللغة العربية، وتشير إلى أنه يمكن لمن يتعلم اللغة العربية التحدث بها بسهولة إذا كان لديه الدافع المناسب. وتنصح بتعلم اللغة الرسمية أولاً وثم الانتقال إلى ال掌握方言، وتشير إلى أن المصادر التعليمية لل掌握方言 قد تكون قليلة. وتشير إلى أن اللغة العربية تتميز بقدرتها على التعبير الدقيق والبساطة.

Keywords

💡العربية

اللغة العربية هي اللغة الأصلية لأكثر من 200 مليون نسمة وتتألف من أكثر من 422 مليون نسمة يتحدثونها. هي السادسة أكثر لغة انتشارًا في العالم وتشتهر بصوتها الدرامائي والمستعرج. في النص، يُذكر أنها لغة محمّلة على الصحراء، وتعتبر الرسمية لـ22 دولة ولغة الأم لـ11 دولة أخرى.

💡المعيار العربي الحديث (MSA)

المعيار العربي الحديث هو شكل حديث من اللغة العربية التقليدية، يُستخدم في الإعلام والثقافة الرسمية. يُستخدم في النص لوصف النسخة الرسمية من اللغة العربية التي تُستخدم في المناسبات الرسمية والكتابات الرسمية، لكنها ليست اللغة ال母 الشخصية لمعظم الناطقين بالعربية.

💡اللهجة

تشير النص إلى أن هناك أكثر من 30 نوعًا من الهجيات العربية، وهذه الهجيات قد تكون مختلفة جدًا حتى أن الناطقون بالعربية من بلد آخر قد يجدون صعوبة في فهم بعضهم البعض. يُستخدم في النص لتوضيح التنوع اللحني في اللغة العربية.

💡الكتابة العربية

الكتابة العربية هي نسق يتضمن 28 حرفًا، وجميعها تركيزًا، وبدون أحرف كبيرة. يُستخدم في النص لتوضيح أن الحروف في الكتابة العربية متصلة، مما يؤدي إلى وجود تنوع في شكل الحرف بناءً على موضعه في الكلمة.

💡القرآن

القرآن هو الكِتاب القدس للمسلمين ويحتوي على اللغة العربية التقليدية. يُستخدم في النص كمثال على النص المكتوب باللغة العربية التقليدية، ويعتبر النص الأعلى في اللغة العربية.

💡الحضار الاسلامي

الحضار الاسلامي هي فترة في التاريخ تتميز بازدهار الثقافة والعلوم باللغة العربية. يُذكر في النص أنها كانت فترة من ال_epochs_ التي شهدت تطورًا كبيرًا في اللغة العربية وعلومها وفلسها.

💡ال专阿拉伯

ال专阿拉伯 هي ال专غة ال专رسمية لـ11 دولة وتشتهر ب专ال专ها ال专جماعية والمستعرج. في النص، يُذكر أنها هي ال专غة ال専لغة لعدد كبير من ال专سكان وتتألف من أكثر من 422 مليون نسمة يتحدثونها.

💡ال专专专

ال专专专 هي ال专نسخة ال专رسمية من اللغة العربية التي تُستخدم في ال专مناسبات ال専رسمية والكتابات ال専رسمية. يُستخدم في النص لوصف النسخة الرسمية من اللغة العربية التي تُستخدم في ال专場合 ال専رسمية والكتابات ال専رسمية.

💡ال专专

تشير النص إلى أن هناك أكثر من 30 نوعًا من ال专jas العربية، وهذا ال专تنوع قد يؤدي إلى صعوبة في ال专فهم بين ال专speakers بالعربية من بلد آخر.

💡ال专专

ال专专 هي نسق يتضمن 28 حرفًا، وجميعها تركيزًا، وبدون أحرف كبيرة. يُستخدم في النص لتوضيح أن ال专حروف في ال专كتابة العربية متصلة، مما يؤدي إلى وجود تنوع في شكل ال专حرف بناءً على موضعه في ال专كلمة.

💡القرآن

القرآن هو الكِتاب ال专قدس للمسلمين ويحتوي على اللغة العربية التقليدية. يُستخدم في النص كمثال على النص المكتوب باللغة العربية التقليدية، ويعتبر النص الأعلى في اللغة العربية.

💡ال专专

ال专专 هي فترة في التاريخ تتميز بازدهار ال专ثقافة وال专علوم باللغة العربية. يُذكر في النص أنها كانت فترة من ال_epochs_ التي شهدت تطورًا كبيرًا في اللغة العربية وعلومها وفلسها.

Highlights

阿拉伯语听起来戏剧性和神秘，有着史诗般的沙漠之旅氛围。

阿拉伯语至少有1600年的历史，可能超过2500年。

阿拉伯语是北闪米特语系，源自阿拉伯半岛的阿拉伯人。

阿拉伯语是超过2亿人的母语，是世界上第五大最常用的语言。

阿拉伯语是22个国家的官方语言，11个国家的母语。

所有阿拉伯国家使用标准阿拉伯语作为正式语言。

阿拉伯语有超过30种不同的方言，方言间差异大到有时甚至阿拉伯人自己也听不懂。

阿拉伯语方言并不直接源自标准阿拉伯语。

最早的阿拉伯语使用者是来自巴比伦和古鲁霍姆的巨人。

纳巴提安人留下了数千条铭文，显示了阿拉伯语的高识字率。

阿拉伯语的书写系统在第四世纪出现，源自阿拉姆语字母。

伊斯兰教的传播极大地推广了阿拉伯语。

古典阿拉伯语是从中古方言中发展出来的，可能是从诗歌中。

阿拉伯语在伊斯兰黄金时代成为科学、哲学和文学的语言。

阿拉伯语的语法标准化归功于被称为阿拉伯语法之父的诗人。

16世纪，第一本阿拉伯语印刷书籍在意大利出版。

拿破仑的埃及远征引发了阿拉伯世界的自我反省和改革。

埃及学者被派往巴黎学习，并发表了《巴黎之金》一书。

阿拉伯语方言因其地区不同而有很大差异，例如埃及方言因其电影产业而广为人知。

阿拉伯字母表由28个辅音字母组成，没有大写形式。

阿拉伯语的读写是从右到左，且书写时字母会根据位置有不同的形式。

阿拉伯语的词汇量超过1200万，有丰富的同义词。

阿拉伯语的单词基于三个字母的词根，词根代表一个概念。

阿拉伯语被认为是学习难度较高的语言，但其实并非如此，尤其是当有学习动力时。

Transcripts

if you think the Arabic language sounds

dramatic and mysterious you are not the

only one it has that epic journey

through the desert Vibe where the

soundtrack sounds like an incantation

and you just know your mouth is going to

be making a lot of strange shapes it's

never even thought of but to really

understand amazing Arabic we must

Journey Back in Time

um

Arabic is a language that takes back at

least 1 600 years some say more than two

and a half thousand years it is a

northern Semitic language named after

the Arabs of the old Arabian Peninsula

the word Aaron means Nomad or desert

dweller which is pretty cool but there

are many theories on the origin of the

word it also happens to mean eloquence

of speech soon you will see why today

Arabic is the native tongue of more than

200 million people and the fifth most

spoken language in the world now that

makes at least 422 million people who

speak it all together it's the official

language of 22 countries it's the mother

tongue in another 11 and is one of the

six official languages of the United

Nations most Arabs use a standard

version of the language formally and

it's the kind of golden thread

connecting all Arab Nations but if you

had to speak Standard Arabic on the

streets you're going to get a lot of

funny looks it's just not done in their

everyday lives you see all Arabs speak a

dialect and there are many of them over

30 different varieties the formal

version that standard version is called

Modern Standard Arabic or MSA basically

a modernized form of classical Arabic

but the regional dialects can be so

different from each other that sometimes

even Arabic people themselves cannot

understand people from another another

country speaking Arabic fun demos are

coming up and it's way more interesting

than just one mother tongue with a bunch

of Offspring in fact none of the

dialects of Arabic even descend from MSA

from Standard Arabic curious don't worry

you're about to get a peak behind the

veil

the first to speak Arabic

great Giants who traveled to Arabia from

Babylon and they and guruhom are the

Arab Ariba the language of Ancient

Giants there is no shortage of

intriguing origin stories for Arabic

it's not really surprising for an

ancient language that came out of the

Endless Arabian Deserts where people

were nomadic Bedouins searching for

their own Origins now in and around

Arabia there were many different

languages Sumerian Acadian

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and all sorts of fascinating kingdoms

like Sheba and Uber the oldest written

thing that even hints at Arabs is an

Assyrian inscription on this monolith

from 852 BC it's a war story and

mentions destroying 1 000 camels of a

king called gingdibu the Arab then

suddenly we see these guys called

nabatians a powerful Arab tribe and

we're looking for evidence of their

language indeed there are thousands upon

thousands of inscriptions from this

region that shows us that the Arabs had

a very high rate of literacy especially

in the Northern parts of Arabia because

indeed even as far back as the second

half of the first millennium BC we find

a few inscriptions and examples of

language expression that does have

strong characteristics of Arabic and

which probably is an earlier form of

that very language the difference here

is that these examples of proto-arabic

are not written in the Arabic script

which wasn't invented yet but in various

different alphabets it is only when we

read them out loud so to say that we

recognize its character as being

essentially an Arabic or close to Arabic

and for a long time Arabic didn't have a

writing system of its own but then in

the fourth Century they found an

inscription in a town near Aleppo Syria

that's definitely Arabic at least nabate

in Arabic this alphabet descended from

the Aramaic alphabet you can see the

whole Evolution here absolutely

fascinating the nebutan alphabet had

fewer consonants than Arabic so during

the seventh century they created some

new Arabic letters by adding docs to

existing ones I'll say the detail about

how the writing worked for a little bit

later fun fact it was cursive navitan

that turned into Arabic

Arabia the largest peninsula on Earth

with endless Seas of sand from north to

south for Millennia it was home to

Nomads who journeyed from Oasis to Oasis

the ancient Caravan route by which

incense silk and precious stones were

transported to the Mediterranean World a

trade brought riches

we don't know for certain how the

different Arabic dialects came about

because there are a few theories on this

but the nomads and Traders who spoke

these dialects spread the language far

and wide along their trade routes

throughout the Arabian Peninsula and

along the Silk Roads of course nothing

spread the language like Islam did and

after the year 632 when Muhammad died

there was just no stopping it the Empire

expanded despite great distances deserts

and mountains to the south of the

peninsula and the Mesopotamia to

Northern Africa and the tourist

mountains into the Far Corners of the

Earth

something was said especially by a

famous poet it had the potential of

spreading like wildfire at this point we

are into the Early Middle Ages and

classical Arabic came out of the

medieval dialects perhaps from poetry

poetry has always been at the heart of

Arabic culture and the different tribes

had started using sort of common

language for poetry so that they could

understand each other isn't that nice in

fact medieval Arabic literature often

mentions this idea that the Bedouins

spoke a purer Arabic and the city

dwellers did so if a poet Priestess you

you could be remembered and respected

for Generations but if he insults you or

your tribe that could mean that you are

completely ruined now remember what he

said when we get to the synonym bottom

line is this classical Arabic became the

highest form of Arabic the kind found in

the Quran and literature and all those

epic poems all the time the dialects

even started borrowing words from the

classical language a lot like what

happened between the romance languages

and Latin so it was a bit of cross

pollination going on there with

pronunciation too this is interesting

medieval Scholars didn't bother studying

and comparing Arabic with other

languages because they believed all

other languages to be inferior to Arabic

modern educated Arabs saw the bigger

picture thank goodness anyway while

Western Europe was experiencing the Dark

Ages the Arabs experienced the Islamic

Golden Age a time where their culture

really flourished Arabic became the

language of science philosophy and

literature and many important Works in

these fields were written in Arabic

there was this place called baghdad's

House of Wisdom caliph El mahmoon

founded the Arab Empire's most famous

scholarly institution the House of

Wisdom

they are Arabs and Persians Christians

and Jews collected and translated the

most important writings from all over

the world

they did translations at the house of

wisdom and tried to impress the boss

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and if you wanted to rise higher in

class you learn Standard Arabic of

course meanwhile in Northern Africa

there were two waves of arabization and

the mingling of different tribes and

languages meant that many local dialect

forms of Arabic started showing up and

these dialects were different from the

Bedouin varieties so there were a lot of

them you betcha

MSC Modern Standard Arabic which is

basically modernized classical Arabic

this term is mostly used by Western

linguist but amongst the Arab they just

got it

the classic or the eloquent Arabic which

is the Arabic that you can find in the

Quran the Arabic that you can find in

the Hadith of the Prophet the original

one basically eventually Arabic grammar

needed to be standardized because an

enormous amount of people were speaking

it and all the non-native converts were

trying to read Arabic and making

mistakes and of course that led to

pronouncing things wrong okay they

needed a writing system that wasn't

quite so ambiguous and the guy who saved

the day was called

he was a well-known poet now known as

the father of Arabic grammar he made the

grammar easier to understand and came up

with all those dots and all those

letters we're still getting to the dots

it's coming up also helpful someone

wrote the first Arabic dictionary and

called it the book of the letter Ein by

the end of the 8th Century Arabic was

finished being standardized great so

can't we just speak the standard kind

now it's the language of the holy book

of Quran it's the language found in

books in magazines and newspapers so

it's the real Arabic classical language

that nobody speaks in the streets nobody

speaks Thunder or because like speaking

Shakespeare in English and nobody will

uh everybody will laugh so that is a

firm no however most books are written

in MSA and all politics and media are

written and spoken in MSA in fact it

would be strange to use a dialect in an

official news report and a very quick

way to lose people's trust as for Arabic

language classes chances are you will

learn Modern Standard Arabic but as you

heard it's nobody's mother tongue and

Arabic communities simply don't speak it

not anyway in fact all Arabs grow up

learning a dialect more on the dialects

coming soon but hang on back to the 16th

century in 1514 the first Arabic printed

book was made in Italy of all places and

as you're about to see European things

were catching the Arab eye

the Egyptian Expedition launched by

Napoleon in 1798 caused a shock wave the

French reached Egypt where ships and

soldiers but they also brought with them

177 Scholars specializing in all sorts

of subjects cultural capital printing

engineering medicine all these

innovations that the Europeans brought

to Egypt brought to light the decline of

the Arab world which led to a great

movement of introspection reforms and

campaigns to fight illiteracy the Arabs

also had a Renaissance it was a cultural

movement that flourished in the Ottoman

Empire sometimes called the Arab

Awakening or Enlightenment writers tried

to fuse Arabic and European literature

and simplify it so Ordinary People could

also enjoy it to get things going the

leader of Egypt sent an Egyptian scholar

to Paris he wrote down everything he

observed and published his book The Gold

of Paris

this movement was therefore one of the

most important things in the Arab world

at that time the gold of Paris and the

book rhymed I'm not kidding he wrote all

this in rhyming prose they just can't

help themselves can they you'll also see

this rhyming style in 1001 Nights now

Arabs call this kind of writing seja

there's this fanciful idea that when you

read this style of writing it sounds

like the cooing of a duh one more reason

that Arabic is so special and as a quick

sidebar he did also learn French while

he was there good man why not anyway

what followed was a big translation

campaign to turn all the important

European cultural and scientific Works

into Arabic next thing some academies

were set up to make sure Arabic keeps up

with the times more of that French

inspiration I see

Salaam

yeah it gets awkward in the beginning

because people are speaking to you in

Arabic and then you're like sorry say

that again and they're like hold on do

you speak Arabic

but well

it's complicated but I'm speaking Arabic

but I think you're not so now just

because you're Arabic it doesn't mean

you know what Arabs are saying each

arabic-speaking country or region has

its own variety of colloquial spoken

Arabic any guesses which is the most

popular and widely used come on take a

guess in the comments I'll tell you in

just a moment the main modern dialect

groups are those of Arabia Iraq Syria

Egypt and North Africa there's also

Lebanon Jordan Algeria but even in a

single country you'll find a bunch of

local dialects what you hear in Cairo is

a little different from what you'll hear

in Aswan so in

in the Gulf countries they would use the

word Wyatt in Egypt they say are we now

I hope you're taking notes here if you

are interested in learning Arabic

knowing one dialect doesn't guarantee

easy communication throughout the Middle

East want my advice learn the Egyptian

dialect if you're interested in spoken

Arabic because Egyptian Arabic is well

known in the Arab world mostly because

of the enormous amount of movies coming

out of Egypt but Arabic speakers are

often quite good at egyptianizing their

speech which is pretty helpful by the

way the dialects aren't usually written

at least they weren't these days the

dialects show up in letters poetry

cartoons Comics plays and of course

social media don't ever forget social

media

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So Satisfied not I used to love writing

in Arabic and when you get good you can

do some amazing calligraphy if that's if

that's your thing let's start with the

alphabet it looks like this there are 28

letters and they're all consonants with

no capital letters if you're wondering

where the vowels are well there aren't

any at least none that you can write

it'll make sense in just a minute first

the Arabic alphabet is just 18 shapes

but you can add diacritical marks to

some of them to end up with 28 different

phonetic sounds this letter is ba it has

a DOT on the bottom the next letter is

called ta the next letter is called Tha

now you will spot a few more letters in

there that look the same so obviously

the dots are really important if you

want to know which consonant you are

reading can you imagine how it was

before when people had to read without

any of those dots a little scary as for

those missing vowels well vowel sounds

exist in Arabic there are three short

and three long ones so does Arabic want

you to guess there is two conditions for

you to be able to read in Arabic without

the harakat without the vowels now the

first one is that you know the words you

are reading like you have memorized them

before you know what it means and that

you understand the topic slash context

of what you are reading about now if

these two are in place if these two

conditions are in place then get ready

to read Arabic without like a pro but

until then what you need to focus is on

building your vocabulary and

um and building your mental dictionary

of Arabic yes build your vocabulary

vowels are tricky voweling is the reason

non-native Arabic speakers find it so

difficult to read Arabic as I can

certainly remember myself but once you

can read you can guess the vowel from

the context in any case there's a cheat

sheet for you as a beginner something

that's used in the Quran and In

classical poetry or books for children

and foreign Learners there are

diacritics to show you where the short

vowels are so take the Arabic word of a

girl which is bent this is how you write

the word without vowels and here it is

with the vowel I the e sound in the

middle so you write the short vowel as a

line below the consonant now as for the

long vowels they're represented by these

three consonants letters with a double

function yes but I will save that

particular explanation for one of our

story learning Arabic courses now this

kind of consonant only alphabet is

called an abyad try it out in English

it's really not so hard to figure out

once you've got the consonants there

what the actual word is now reading and

writing goes from right to left so for

example say my book of Arabic short

stories you don't start at the front you

start at the back and then you open it

up and when you get uh and you get pages

with text you start at the super yeah

there we go you start at the right and

move to the left not the other way

around actually in English it's really

not as hard as it looks once you get

used to it so you write Arabic like

you'd write cursive joining the letters

up although in Arabic the letters are

joined even in printed text this means

each letter has variations depending on

the letter that comes before and after

usually four variations depending on if

it's at the beginning middle or end of a

word or on its own it sounds all kind of

complicated and scary but just like

anything you get used to them quite

easily and once you do they're very easy

to write and remember any writing that

you do is only going to be in Modern

Standard Arabic nothing else mind you it

is possible to write Arabic using the

Latin alphabet it's called the Arabic

chat alphabet or the franco-arabic

alphabet and um locals use this a lot

actually especially when they're texting

and it lets you use the old ABC to spell

out words phonetically so there's

another cheat if you really need it but

I wouldn't recommend learning that way

because otherwise you're going to be

really stuck when it comes to reading

actual Arabic by the way in Israel

people write Arabic using the Hebrew

alphabet and you can even write Arabic

in the Syriac alphabet on the other hand

you can use Arabic letters to write in

Persian and all of these languages so is

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okay I never mentioned it being hard but

it can be now the gutteral back of the

throat sound I in which a lot of people

associate with Arabic this one took me a

whole bunch of times practice and I

still can't do it very well but I

promise you your throat and your mouth

does get used to saying the tricky

Arabic letters and only six or seven of

them are really quite different from

English the most famous example uh is a

very rare sound called the dead in the

Arabic alphabet it's written like this

and it's so unique that Arabic is

sometimes called the language of the

dead but overall Arabic is mostly

frenetic which is really helpful just

remember things change if you're going

into the dialects about the dialects

Arabic letters aren't always pronounced

the same especially the vowels

we have Alf which is a lion when it

hunts at night we have Adam which is a

short lion we have kaswara which is a

lion when the animals are fleeing from

it we have lathe which is a lion

when he's circling his uh his prey we

have Usama which is a line only when

it's leaping to attack my friends if you

think you have a good word for something

Arabic probably has ten and therefore

you can often be amazingly precise camel

sword water rain all the same story lion

by the way has three to four hundred

synonyms they say sword has one thousand

but why does Arabic have so many words

with the same thing well let's start

with how many words there are all

together brace yourself more than 12

million you see in the old Arabic world

before people were literate the usual

way to spread news and tell stories was

through poetry now remember this guy

there are stories about poets who became

so powerful that at times all it took

was a single line of poetry to make try

to lose its status and so with that kind

of motivation the arrows became Masters

at expressing themselves

now you're gonna love this Arabic has a

unique and amazing way of building word

the secret to a word meaning is all in

the root nearly every word in Arabic is

based on a combination of three letters

that together form a root and each root

represents a different concept so all

the words that come from this one root

will mean something around that concept

caf

ta and ba

Kataba

and that's the verb to write

Kataba

he wrote

katabat

she wrote here that's

a sound in each word

letter combo carries the meaning of

writing and if you use this root you can

make lots of other words related to

writing like book write a library and so

on another one look at but let carries

the idea of playing or there's the RSL

so this root means sending then you make

it more to make a more specific meaning

you just add vowels maybe other

consonant it's like adding prefixes and

suffixes except you can add them in the

middle of a word the cool thing is once

you know the root word you will start

seeing patterns and recognizing so many

other words it's really quite ingenious

how it works or it does require a bit of

a mind shift from English now as for the

rest of the grammar Modern Standard

Arabic is a verb subject object language

but sometimes word order is different it

can change it is a pronoun in France

word order changes to subject verb

object and pronouns can be quite

interesting in Arabic but this time I

wanted to compare to this come come

endings also is attached pronoun but

this is telling us we are speaking to

plural meaning more than two people

three and above that's a plural

yeah so come now when you say assalamu

alaikum

peace be upon you

and you're only one person in front of

you why is it that we are using Come

ending which is used for plural

uh the idea behind that is as a Muslim

we believe that you are not alone

although we are greeting you one person

we believe that you are surrendered by

angels as well so our greatness to you

and to the accompanying angels as well

Arabic uses masculine and feminine

gender verbs have regular conjugation

and they're inflicted for three persons

and three numbers there are two tenses

the perfect and the imperfect there are

three cases which means nouns get

special endings to show their function

in a sentence but you'll be glad to know

they pretty much disappeared from the

spoken dialects

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you've probably heard the word Habibi in

songs but do you know any other Arabic

words I think we should give you a few

to try out they are lovely to say Arabic

is very romantic and emotional so you

get a lot of my moon and my light and as

for the word love well with to those

synonyms again I'm aware of 14 words but

some people claim there are 50. at least

it's not a thousand who knows

pre-islamic Arabic took a lot of loan

words from other Semitic languages like

Aramaic ethiopic and Syriac and during

the early Islamic conquests Iranian

languages like Persian also gave tons of

words to Arabic Hellenistic Greek as

well

so has Arabic influenced other languages

in turn you bet it has it's been most

important in Islamic countries but all

of these languages have some Arabic in

them did you spot yours in there is it

modern Hebrew was also influenced by

Arabic which is not at all surprising

since they're both languages of Israel

and if you want to know about the

Spanish connection Arabic in Spain it's

an interesting story and I went into it

in this video as for words that English

borrowed from Arabic they mostly came

via Mediterranean languages and

interestingly Swahili and most Berber

varieties took some of their numbers

from Arabic and by now there's just one

thing you still want to know

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in America

now she's American by the way I think

you could sing in Arabic what an epic

goal to set YouTube Right truth time

Arabic is considered one of the most

difficult languages to learn but Arabic

is really not as hard as people think

especially if you've got a good

motivating reason to learn the dialects

are usually easier because there's just

less confusing grammar easier

pronunciation and in general fewer rules

to remember but you will struggle to get

good materials to learn with for the

simple reason that it is a spoken

language

get a good grasp of Modern Standard

Arabic first as a foundation is my

advice that way you can understand the

structure of the language and read some

pretty cool story books like this one

and then well it's a lot easier to move

on to a dialect meanwhile I have a

feeling you really love this next video