This is a scene from a one-act stage play I wrote this morning. I believe you may prefer it if you wish to begin bettering your Levantine Arabic studying expertise.
[Enter Uchechi, stage left.]
Uchechi: The important thing to studying in Levantine Arabic is to begin studying in Fusha.
[Enter linguists, language teachers, and anyone who has had to endure the wrath of Al-Kitaab, stage right.]
All dem: Huh? How does that even make sense? Fusha and Levantine usually are not the identical languages. Cease mendacity to of us.
Uchechi: Mendacity? Okay this is a query then. What do: يعلك, مبحوح, and معجزة have in frequent?
All dem: Um, they’re in Arabic. Clearly. So what?
Uchechi: Really, what all of them have in frequent is that every phrase has the very same that means in Fusha because it does in Levantine. What I imply is: معجزة means miracle in Fusha and Levantine. يعلك means to chew. And مححوح means hoarse.
All dem: What how do you know that? Are you simply scrolling by way of the dictionary?
Uchechi: No, I discovered each in Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Returning to Haifa. Have you ever ever learn it?
All dem: However that novella is written in Fusha!
Uchechi: My level precisely…
[Uchechi drops her mic and exits stage left. All dem stare off into the distance, amazed at the simple and novel thought that reading in Fusha could actually improve their Levantine Arabic.]
[End of play.]
So that you see of us, even the naysayers imagine me. So what about you? Are you able to study an oh-so-simple method to make use of Fusha to enhance your Levantine Arabic?
The rationale I am making such a giant stink about studying is as a result of:
1) Most Arabic college students by no means learn something that has not been assigned in school. So if you happen to’re not in a proper Arabic class proper now, you most likely have not learn something shortly.
2) Levantine Arabic college students hardly learn something as a result of Levantine studying is infrequently assigned and since studying sources in Levantine are exhausting to search out.
3) Studying has been confirmed time and time once more, as probably the most necessary expertise a language learner wants to succeed in fluency of their language.
In my expertise, the explanation I really like studying vs. television and music immersion is that after I’m studying, I’m confronted by all the things I have no idea. And due to this fact, I’ve the chance to study a ton of latest phrases in a short time.
Throughout listening immersion, alternatively, if I miss a phrase, I miss it, and it is unlikely that I am going to study that phrase until I am targeted sufficient to cease my immersion, work out the spelling of the phrase, plug it right into a dictionary, and hope that I discover the definition.
So how do you utilize studying in Fusha to enhance your Levantine? Within the video beneath, I walked you thru how to do this step-by-step.
And shock! I am additionally talking Arabic on this video! That is most likely considered one of my first occasions talking Arabic publicly since I began self-studying in early 2020. So, I additionally added subtitles and I would love strategies from native audio system on how I can enhance.
