Have Fun Learning Arabic with Short Animated Videos

 Assalaamu Alaykum Everyone

Ahlan wa Sahlan! Hello & Welcome!

Please join us and Have Fun Learning Arabic with Short Animated Videos

I've finally completed the first Short Animated Video Lesson, which covers the initial dialogue of one of the episodes from the Series Mughaamaraat Mushaakis (مُغَامرات مشاكس): The adventures of Mushaakis.  This short (10 minute) Video Lesson (Everyone Needs Exercise) covers part of the dialogue from the original episode (mentioned above) with the Arabic Text and the English Text provided, as well as Transliterated Text provided in Large Format in Speech Bubbles - which will assist the Non-Arabic Speaker in understanding the text and the Arabic Audio.  I've also added some audio comments in English, which include the English Translation of the Arabic Audio.  

Here is a link to the first Video Lesson:  Everyone Needs Exercise, which will be live from tomorrow morning (Sunday 27/10/2024) at 06.00 (Time zone: GMT+2)

The idea is to provide further support on this blog/ site, in the form of Grammatical or Structural explanations, so that the learner or viewer can understand the Arabic Audio better and simultaneously learn the Structure of the Arabic Language.

These Video Lessons are suitable for all ages.  In fact it would be ideal if adults or teenagers watch it with the young children at home.

This episode opens with Mushaakis, the monkey walking through the forest. He hears Arnuub, the rabbit counting from one to four...

He then wonders: "Isn't that the voice of Arnuub?" (أليس هذا صوت أرنوب؟):

"What is he doing there?"  (ما الذي يفعله هنا؟):

It has been proven that most people learn a new language faster when they get the opportunity to observe the language being spoken and they know some of the words being used.  This is called comprehensible input.  One learns faster when you absorb small amounts of comprehensible chunks of the language as spoken by native speakers or non-natives who are fluent.  Ideally the learner should find himself in the place where the language is spoken, however for the absolute beginner, who knows very little to nothing of the new/ foreign language this is usually too overwhelming.  So, in my opinion, the Beginner Learner should start learning the language either via his mother tongue or via the target language - with all the support he needs.  A combination of both is probably the best.  Of course nowadays with some very effective apps and AI support, it is quite possible for the beginner to acquire a new language on his own - provided he has the proper approach (which incorporates an effective  methodology of learning and teaching a new language).  This methodology is sadly lacking in many of the apps available.  One also often finds Mother-tongue speakers sharing vocabulary, phrases or sentences on YouTube, without a good, effective teaching methodology. 

I believe that one can start learning the new language (in this case Arabic) with any type of input: Be it a formal classroom, listening to someone at the market, hearing a song or qasidah (Arabic/ Islamic Poem), etc. - as long as you understand at least 60-80% of what is being communicated.  Of course the more you understand, the better.  This is especially of crucial importance if you want to respond to the input you've received.  So, the problem is where do you start if you know nothing or very little?  Following a series of this nature, with the proposed support, should most definitely assist you in learning and understanding the Arabic Language.  Why not give it a go?

For a visual breakdown with short explanatory notes, please go to the Have Fun Learning Arabic PAGE.

I trust you'll find this approach works for you.

Enjoy Arabic More!

Back to Video Productions!

 Assalaamu Alaykum Everyone!

Yes, Al-hamdu-lillah, we're back with our Video Productions after a brief bout of flu, which kept me from being productive to a large extent over the past month.

So, I'm back and I hope to complete both the Enjoy Arabic Series and the Read Arabic in a Matter of (3-5) Minutes as soon as I possibly can.  However as I previously mentioned, Video Editing takes a lot of time.  Many professional YouTubers can only manage to complete two to four short videos per month, unless they have a team of video and audio editing experts assisting them, or unless they make extensive use of AI editing programmes.

So, Al-hamdu-lillah, I've completed the Enjoy Arabic, Book One Lesson Five in two parts.  Here are the links:

Part One: Improve your basic Arabic Reading and Writing Skills (EAM L5 Part1) 

Part Two: First Short Arabic Dialogue & Letter Recognition (EAM L5 Part2)

What is quite exiting is the fact that the first short dialogue is covered in this lesson.  But, those of you who have been following the Video Lessons, will know that we've actually given many other sentence structures, including some information regarding verb use in the previous lessons.  So, I might do a summary of all the sentence structures covered thus far so that you can get a gist of the impact of these few lessons. 

Hopefully the production of other lessons will go much quicker, since as I mentioned before, I intend to skip some parts in order to concentrate more on the vocabulary and sentence structures in future.  This will facilitate the understanding of the Arabic grammatical structures greatly, which in turn will aid communication with enhanced comprehension.