https://github.com/lastmjs/learn-arabic
https://github.com/lastmjs/learn-arabic
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/lastmjs/learn-arabic
- Owner: lastmjs
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-08-12T05:56:17.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-08-12T06:58:35.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-19T22:50:33.210Z (5 months ago)
- Size: 2.93 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 4
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- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Learn Arabic
I want to learn Arabic. This repo will help me do so. If I feel so inclined, I'll flesh this out and make it useful to other people.
## Notes
These are my preliminary notes. I'm going to read a variety of materials on the best ways to learn languages, and the best ways to learn Arabic. Once these notes are complete, I'll go through them and compile them into a list of concrete actions that must be taken. I'll try to think of milestones to create, and issues for each milestone. I'll create projects to put the issues into...to somehow keep myself accountable. The hard part is repeating tasks...figure out how to represent those.
- [ ] Start speaking from day 1
- [ ] Expose yourself to the language at every opportunity
- [ ] Do not be afraid to embarrass yourself
- [ ] Learn the most frequently used words first. Memorize them with flashcards
- [ ] Learn the cognates
- [ ] Consistently read the language (Read a little in The Book of Mormon every day, or a conference talk)
- [ ] Consistently listen to the language (Listen to General Conference or watch/listen to Al Jazeera live Arabic feed)
- [ ] Consistently speak the language
- [ ] Tell short stories to yourself with new vocabulary words to remember them (mnemonics)
- [ ] Duolingo (once it supports Arabic for English speakers)
- [ ] Create SMART goals
- [ ] Deconstruct the grammar
- [ ] Learn some of the most common words first, then pick up grammar
- [ ] Drop English as much as possible from your study
- [ ] Learn the first 1000 words to gain 70%-80% of the words you'll ever encounter in the language
- [ ] Break the 1000 words up into manageable chunks of 50
- [ ] Get some basic Arabic learning books and absorb them
- [ ] Do not cram, but space out your study and practice
- [ ] Use good memory techniques to memorize words and alphabet symbols. Think of some mnemonic or way to associate a word or symbol with something you already know