Arabic A La Carte Live Sessions

  • 36 Beginner Topics/Year (Teach on Repeat and assuming minimal to no background)

    • Do these topics need to be done in a certain order?

      • Some of them do

        • Brief recap of prerequisite knowledge is briefly covered in the live session at the instructor’s discretion, based on assessment of attending students (good for instructor to be able to get a quick gauge of students’ levels, whether by polling or through the technology).

        • Recommended prerequisites, in terms of lessons completed and/or videos watched, is included when students are given the option to join.

        • May need to restrict access based on level, but ideally, it is open to everyone to keep things simple and due to potential technology limitations.

      • Others can be done out of sequence. In this case, students can join at any stage of their journey.

  • 1 hour sessions. Quran Application heavy, & build vocab slowly 

  • LW:

    • One course per topic below (36 total courses) OR one “A La Carte” course entirely

    • What does the notification look like for upcoming A La Carte topics, to ensure their relevance to the student at their stage of the journey?

36 topics spanning Levels 1 and 2:

  1. Makharij of letters/mudud/harakat/shaddah

  2. Direct Object

  3. Grammatical Doer

  4. Arabic sentences (Nominal/verbal sentence)

  5. Types of words (اسم - فعل حرف)

  6. Definite vs. Indefinite

  7. Masculine vs. Feminine

  8. Descriptions in Arabic (Adjective)

  9. Idafah

    1. With Lafdh al Jalala لفظ الجلالة

      1. كتاب الله - عبد الله

      2. All About the Arabic Word for God: “ALLAH”

  10. Word endings (Grammatical case ending)

  11. Number (dual - plural)

    1. Navigating Numbers

  12. Pronouns (الضمائر المنفصلة والمتصلة)

  13. Pointing Nouns (أسماء الإشارة)

  14. Demonstrative nouns (أسماء موصولة)

  15. Genitive particles (حروف الجر)

  16. One lesson on الأبواب الستة with Hans Wehr 

  17. The 10 Patterns (each of these can be its own lesson)

    1. Verb Form II

    2. Verb Form III

    3. Verb Form IV

    4. Verb Form V

    5. Verb Form VI

    6. Verb Form VII

    7. Verb Form VIII

    8. Verb Form IX

    9. Verb Form X

  18. Intro into derived words (المشتقات)

  19. Five Nouns الأسماء الخمسة

  20. Transitive vs intransitive verbs.

  21. Noun of instrument اسم الآلة

  22. Doer and receiver pattern اسم الفاعل والمفعول

  23. Verb-Doer agreement (VDO)

  24. Noun of Time and Place

    1. Times in the Quran

      1. Words for time

      2. Ism Zaman

      3. Usage of tense. 

    2. Places in the Quran.

      1. Isma Makan

      2. Proper nouns

  25. Noun of comparison (اسم التفضيل)

  26. Passive verbs - how the Quran uses passive out of Adab.

  27. Conjunction (عطف)

  28. كان وأخواتها

  29. إن وأخواتها

  30. حروف النصب

  31. حروف الجزم

  32. Energetic mood (التوكيد)

  33. Compound Past Tense (قد - كان)

  34. Partially declinable nouns

  35. Grammatical concepts related to لفظ الجلالة

  36. أسماء الله الحسنى