Embark on a rewarding journey to Learn Arabic with our comprehensive online course. Whether you’re a complete beginner or looking to enhance your existing skills, our free Arabic lessons provide a structured and accessible path to mastering this beautiful and globally significant language. If you are new to the Arabic script, we recommend starting with our Arabic Reading Course to build a solid foundation before diving into this curriculum. For a more personalized learning experience, you can also sign up for a free trial with a native Arabic tutor and accelerate your progress.
Why Learn Arabic? Unlocking a World of Opportunities
Arabic, spoken by over 400 million people worldwide, is more than just a language – it’s a gateway to a rich tapestry of cultures, histories, and contemporary societies. Learning Arabic opens doors to:
- Cultural Enrichment: Immerse yourself in the diverse cultures of the Arab world, from the bustling souks of Marrakech to the ancient pyramids of Egypt. Understand the nuances of Arabic literature, poetry, music, and film, gaining a deeper appreciation for Arab heritage and traditions.
- Enhanced Travel Experiences: Travel with confidence and connect authentically with locals in over 20 countries where Arabic is an official language. Navigate markets, order delicious cuisine, and engage in meaningful conversations, enriching your travel adventures.
- Career Advancement: In an increasingly globalized world, Arabic proficiency is a valuable asset in various fields. Demand for Arabic speakers is growing in international business, diplomacy, translation, journalism, education, and intelligence.
- Cognitive Benefits: Learning a new language, especially one as linguistically rich as Arabic, enhances cognitive functions, improves memory, and boosts problem-solving skills. It broadens your perspective and sharpens your mind.
- Understanding Islam: For those interested in Islamic studies, learning Arabic is essential for understanding the Quran and Hadith in their original language, providing a deeper connection to religious texts and traditions.
Introducing the Madinah Arabic Course: Your Path to Fluency
Our online Arabic course is based on the renowned Madinah Arabic book series, a highly effective method for learning Arabic grammar and morphology systematically. This course is designed to be:
- Comprehensive: With over 90 meticulously structured lessons, we cover a wide range of essential Arabic grammar and morphology topics. From the foundational concepts to more advanced grammatical structures, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the Arabic language.
- Accessible: This course is completely free and available online, allowing you to learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. We believe that quality Arabic education should be accessible to everyone.
- Structured: The lessons are logically organized, building upon each other to ensure a gradual and effective learning progression. You’ll start with the basics and progressively advance to more complex grammatical concepts.
- Practical: Our focus is on practical Arabic language skills. You’ll learn to understand and use Arabic grammar in real-world contexts, enabling you to communicate effectively.
Course Curriculum Overview: A Step-by-Step Learning Journey
This course systematically guides you through the core elements of Arabic grammar and morphology. Here’s a glimpse into the topics covered:
- Fundamentals: Starting with the Arabic alphabet (covered in our prerequisite Arabic Reading Course), you will learn basic phrases, demonstrative pronouns (haadhaa – ‘This is’, Dhalika – ‘That is’), and the definite article (Alif Laam – ‘The’).
- Grammar Essentials: Delve into prepositions, masculine and feminine pronouns, nominal and verbal sentences, expressing ownership, and indeclinable words (Mabni).
- Pronouns and Demonstratives: Master feminine demonstrative pronouns (Hadhihi, Tilka), possessive pronouns, and relative pronouns, expanding your ability to form complex sentences.
- Verb Conjugation: Learn present tense verbs, past tense verbs, imperative verbs, and their masculine and feminine forms. Understand verb negation and explore different verb types (sound verb, weak verb, transitive, intransitive, active, passive).
- Plurals and Dual Forms: Discover sound plurals, broken plurals, and the dual form in Arabic, enabling you to discuss quantities and groups accurately.
- Numbers and Numerals: Learn Arabic numbers from one to ten and beyond, understanding their application with masculine and feminine nouns and composite numerals.
- Advanced Grammar: Explore diptotes, noun types, declension (iξraab), conditional nouns, verbal nouns, and various grammatical cases and objects (doer, subject of passive, object, absolute object, causal object, etc.).
- Sentence Structure: Study nominal sentences, and the functions of particles and verbs like kaana and its sisters, inna and its sisters, and laa of generic negation.
- Morphology Introduction: Get introduced to Arabic morphology, verb measures (simple and augmented), participles (active and passive), and nouns of time, place, and instrument.
- Writing and Punctuation: Learn about the hamza, typography, pronounced and silent letters, omitted letters, and punctuation marks in Arabic writing.
Below is a detailed list of the lessons included in this comprehensive course:
| Lesson | Description – Lesson Content |
|---|---|
| Lesson 1 | – The phrase haadhaa which means ‘This is..’. |
| Lesson 2 | – The phrase Dhalika which means ‘That is..’. |
| Lesson 3 | – The Arabic Definite Article – Alif Laam – which corresponds to ‘The’ in English. |
| Lesson 4 | – Prepositions – i.e. words showing the relationship of one noun to another (e.g. to, from, in, at etc). – Masculine and Feminine Pronouns – i.e. He and She. – Nominal and Verbal sentences |
| Lesson 5 | – Expression of ownership – i.e. showing one noun owns another – e.g. ‘The teacher’s car’ – Mabni – Indeclinable words which do not change their case with different causes and maintain their vowel ending – Article to call someone (vocative particle) – e.g. ‘Oh Umar!’ |
| Lesson 6 | – Feminine pronoun for ‘This’ – Hadhihi. – Masculine and Feminine nouns – Prepositions |
| Lesson 7 | – The Demonstrative Pronoun for the Feminine Articles “تِلْكَ” – Use of Shadda and dropping of letter ‘lam‘ of the definite article ‘al‘ when used with solar letters. |
| Lesson 8 | – Revision Lesson – In this lesson we will Insha Allah revise all the grammatical rules we have learnt so far. |
| Lesson 9 | – The Adjective clause – The Relative pronoun |
| Lesson 10 | – Posessive Pronouns – Five Nouns (exception) – New prepositions, pronouns when added to verbs. |
| Lesson 11 | – Attaching pronouns to prepositions – Present Tense Verbs – Introduction – Object of a Verbal Sentence |
| Lesson 12 | – How to have a discussion in Arabic – The conversion of a masculine verb into a feminine verb – The use of the feminine relative pronoun (that, who, which) |
| Lesson 13 | – Plural form of the Demonstrative Pronoun – Sound Plural – Broken Plural |
| Lesson 14 | – Plural form of the Demonstrative Pronoun (“That”) – Plural form of the personal pronouns in the 3rd person – Plural form of the masculine and feminine verbs in 3rd person (e.g. He Went, She Went, They Went) |
| Lesson 15 | – Plural form of masculine personal pronouns in the 2nd person. – Plural form of masculine possessive pronouns – Plural form of the masculine verbs in the 2nd person (e.g. You went) |
| Lesson 16 | – Plural form of the Personal and Possessive Pronouns (You / Your) referring to the feminine nouns. – The plural form of the simple feminine verbs connected to the pronoun – i.e. ذَهَبْتُنَّ – The words for ‘before’ and ‘after |
| Lesson 17 | – The concept of rational and irrational nouns. – A new pattern for the broken plurals |
| Lesson 18 | – The dual form in the Arabic language for demonstrative and personal pronouns. – The interrogative article used to ask ‘how many’ – كَمْ؟ |
| Lesson 19 | – The numbers for one to ten (as applied to masculine nouns). |
| Lesson 20 | – The numbers for one to ten (as applied to feminine nouns). |
| Lesson 21 | – Introduction to the diptotes. |
| Lesson 22 | – The diptotes – continued |
| Lesson 23 | – The types of noun in Arabic in detail |
| Lesson 24 | – The demonstrative and relative pronouns in detail. |
| Lesson 25 | – Introduction to /iξraab/ declension and structure, and difference between the declinable and the indeclinable words. |
| Lesson 26 | – The composite numeral, including: – Numbers from 1 to 10. Lesson 18, 19 – Numbers from 11 to 19. – Numbers from 20 to 99. – Numbers 100, 200 … 1000. |
| Lesson 27 | – Nouns with shortened ending – Nouns with curtailed ending – Nouns with extended ending |
| Lesson 28 | – Past, present and imperative verbs |
| Lesson 29 | – Verbs in past, present and future tenses |
| Lesson 30 | – Masculine and feminine verb (past, present, imperative) |
| Lesson 31 | – Affirmative verb, negative verb and auxiliaries used for verb negation. |
| Lesson 32 | – The sound verb, the weak verb, and the weak letters |
| Lesson 33 | – The transitive and intransitive verbs |
| Lesson 34 | – The active and passive verb |
| Lesson 35 | – The five verbs |
| Lesson 36 | – The cases/iξrâb/ of the sound and weak verbs |
| Lesson 37 | – The cases/iξrâb/ of the five verbs |
| Lesson 38 | – Structure of the present verb |
| Lesson 39 | – Structure of the past verb |
| Lesson 40 | – Structure of the imperative verb |
| Lesson 41 | – The interrogative nouns /man/, /mā/, /mādhā/, and /limādhā/ |
| Lesson 42 | – The interrogative nouns /matā/, /ayna/, /kayfa/, and /kam/ |
| Lesson 43 | – The interrogative particles: /a/ and /hal/ |
| Lesson 44 | – Personal pronouns: Detached nominal and accusative pronouns |
| Lesson 45 | – Nominative attached pronouns |
| Lesson 46 | – Accusative attached pronouns |
| Lesson 47 | – Genitive attached |
| Lesson 48 | – Latent pronouns: General exercises and revision for the personal pronouns |
| Lesson 49 | – Conditional nouns |
| Lesson 50 | – Verbal nouns |
| Lesson 51 | – The noun with extended ending |
| Lesson 52 | – The noun with curtailed ending |
| Lesson 53 | – The noun with shortened ending |
| Lesson 54 | – Sound feminine plural |
| Lesson 55 | – The dual |
| Lesson 56 | – The sound masculine plural |
| Lesson 57 | – The five nouns |
| Lesson 58 | – The nominal sentence |
| Lesson 59 | – /kaana/ and its sisters |
| Lesson 60 | – /inna/ and its sisters |
| Lesson 61 | – /laa/ of generic negation |
| Lesson 62 | – /kaada/ and its sisters |
| Lesson 63 | – /dhanna/ and its sisters |
| Lesson 64 | – The doer |
| Lesson 65 | – The subject of the passive (with an introduction to the sentence in passive voice) |
| Lesson 66 | – The object |
| Lesson 67 | – The absolute object |
| Lesson 68 | – The causal object |
| Lesson 69 | – The circumstantial object |
| Lesson 70 | – The concomitate object |
| Lesson 71 | – The status |
| Lesson 72 | – The distinctive preceded by kamm. Lesson 17 |
| Lesson 73 | – The exclusion |
| Lesson 74 | – The exclusion 2 |
| Lesson 75 | – The exclusion 3 |
| Lesson 76 | – Prepositions, Meanings |
| Lesson 77 | – Prepositions, Types |
| Lesson 78 | – Introduction to the Followers: The Adjective |
| Lesson 79 | – The conjunctions |
| Lesson 80 | – The Substitution |
| Lesson 81 | – Oral and Moral Assurance |
| Lesson 82 | – The vocative |
| Lesson 83 | – The exclamation |
| Lesson 84 | – The persuasion and warning |
| Lesson 85 | – The praise and blame |
| Lesson 86 | – The preference |
| Lesson 87 | – The conditional Sentence |
| Lesson 88 | – The demand (the imperative and interdiction) |
| Lesson 89 | – The apology, welcoming and congratulation |
| Lesson 90 | – Introduction to morphology |
| Lesson 91 | – The types/measures of verbs |
| Lesson 92 | – Measures of the simple verbs |
| Lesson 93 | – Measures of the augmented verbs |
| Lesson 94 | – Defection and replacement |
| Lesson 95 | – Formation of the passive verbs |
| Lesson 96 | – Attribution of verbs to pronouns |
| Lesson 97 | – The affirmation of the verb/ the Emphatic |
| Lesson 98 | – The active participle and the passive participle |
| Lesson 99 | – The noun of time and the noun of place |
| Lesson 100 | – The superlative and the verbal adjective |
| Lesson 101 | – Noun of preference/the superlative noun |
| Lesson 102 | – The noun of usage/instrument |
| Lesson 103 | – Relation to words using the hard ya’ |
| Lesson 104 | – Diminution of nouns |
| Lesson 105 | – The hamza of liaison and hamza of rupture. Lesson 5 |
| Lesson 106 | – Typography of the hamza of liaison |
| Lesson 107 | – Typography of the ta’ and the shortened ’alif |
| Lesson 108 | – Pronounced letters that are not written, and written letters that are silent |
| Lesson 109 | – Letters that can be omitted |
| Lesson 110 | – Punctuation marks |
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