Chapotraphouse

It's that time of the year again

This is probably my fifth year doing this, I guess I just love teaching Arabic, especially to comrades.

I enjoy making things make sense, and Arabic is absolutely perfect for this! It's its own language, one that is based on its own (magical, as comrade mathemachristian called it) root system, and not just a mishmash of different languages. You'll love learning about patterns, verb forms, and how to derive words from the magical root system, you'll see how powerful and expressive Arabic really is.

I have my own course material that I constantly improve upon, and it helps me adapt the lessons and study plan to my students' interests as well as their pace. I truly believe that language learning has to be fun and engaging, and things need to make sense, starting from the dots on the letters.

Let me know if you have any questions about Arabic or how I conduct my classes. As for the money, it's pay what you can since this is something I do on the side and enjoy immensely.

I have been teaching @mathemachristian@hexbear.net once a week for more than a year now and I asked him if he'd like to talk about his experience learning Arabic so far, I think what he wrote deserves its own post:

Learning arabic is great fun. Deciphering the meaning of sentences, deconstructing them and reconstructing them in a new language is a very fun and rewarding puzzle in its own right. And arabic makes the reconstruction very easy because it is very regular. Once you start to really delve into it, it also becomes easier and easier to vibe meaning of arabic words you don't know, not just from context, but because arabic constructs them in a way that makes them deliberately similar to words of similar meaning. You just find the magic 3 letters and the word is (likely to be) revealed! What most people probably are intimidated by is the script, but it actually is very easy, and the standard font doesn't do it's beauty justice. It's just a cursive script. If you know a latin cursive you already mastered a worse cursive.

I'm also very much enjoying that the lessons don't follow the standard A1 then A2 then B1 and so on format that involves memorizing a lot of sentences and stilted dialogues. The absence of a verb for "to be" makes it very easy to start constructing your own sentences, bypassing tenses, conjugation &c. and leave them for later.

Plus it opens dialogues that are great fun. Arab people are overjoyed at someone being able to say some basic sentences, or read/write arabic it opens a lot of doors and is just awesome fun. Surprise your friends by casually having a notebook full of arabic writing lying around!

If you want, you can dm me from a throwaway account, or contact me on Element.

And like I said last year, if there is interest for group lessons I'd be more than happy to do that.