SAH Academy
SAH Academy

Beginner Arabic

First words, first sentences, and the questions you will actually ask

  • Beginner
  • About 45 min
  • 3 modules

Part of Arabic Mastery.

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By the end you’ll be able to
  • Use two hundred everyday words with confidence
  • Say who and what something is with pronouns and demonstratives
  • Ask and answer simple questions
  • Read a short vowelled passage and say what it means
About this course

Once you can read and write, this is where Arabic starts to say something. Everyday words in order of usefulness, the two sentence patterns in their simplest form, and enough grammar to build a sentence rather than memorise one. It ends with short passages you read unaided.

What’s in it
  1. First words6 steps
    • The words you will use every day · Watch: a first conversation · Essentials deck · Nouns and their gender · Two hundred words: the first fifty · Check: first wordsPreview
  2. Making a sentence6 steps
    • The sentence with no verb · Pronouns and pointers · Check: this and that · Questions · Listen: questions and answers · Check: questions
  3. First reading4 steps
    • Read it three times · Listen: the passage read aloud · Final: first reading · Print: the passage and word list