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Beginners Arabic Lesson 26: Good, Better, Best! The ism at-tafDeel (اسم تفضيل)
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This episode is on the ism at-tafDeel (اسم تفضيل) which is part of Sarf. The best way to think about it is how to say something is better than something else. Or how to say good, better, best. We’ve just crossed 300k downloads so a massive shukran jazeelan to all the listeners. If you’re enjoying them, please don’t forget to give us a rating and pl…
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'Intermediate Episode 7: On Singing, Studying at Oxford, Melayu and Kelantanese with Iman Farrar
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In today’s Ep, we chat to the superstar singer/songwriter and activist Iman Farrar! We discuss how she learnt Arabic, what it’s like studying at Oxford University then for the Malay speakers we switch to Bahasa Melayu and talk about growing up in a multilingual household and learn or I attempt to learn some Kelantanese. Biography: Iman is a Muslim …
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 25: Using Basic Arabic to Memorise Hadith
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Every Ramadan in Arabic class, we get students to come up with their favourite ayaat (verses) of the Quran or Hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad saw) and we translate it and try to memorise it. The key lesson here is with basic rudimentary Arabic, you’re able to break down the ayah or Hadith word for word and it makes your favourite ayah or Ha…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 24: What are your Hobbies?
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What are your hobbies? It sounds like a question you'd ask when reviewing someone's biodata for marriage. I've never heard this question in a conversation and I've never used it. That said, there are some interesting vocab that you can learn from saying what your hobbies are. So, what are your hobbies? For those of you who want that little bit extr…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 23: Jom Belajar Bahasa Arab dengan Melati Lum! (In Malay)
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In this episode my sister Melati and I practise our sketchy Malay and at the same time learn how to say some phrases in Arabic on what Melati studied and where she worked. For non-Malay speakers skip to 7mins and 30secs for a short lesson. Melati Lum has a background in criminal law having prosecuted a wide range of serious offences in the courts. …
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 22: Tips on Learning Languages with Nejra - Part B
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Join us again with the amazing Nejra, a writer and PhD Candidate at Monash University, specialising in poetry, philosophy, and Islamic intellectual history. In this episode we get some tips on how she learned three languages at the same time; French, Arabic and Bosnian so join us for that! For those of you who want that little bit extra, join our p…
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Intermediate Lesson 6: In Conversation with Nejra. On Identity, Sandžak and Learning Arabic - Part A
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Join us with the amazing Nejra, a writer and PhD Candidate at Monash University, specialising in poetry, philosophy, and Islamic intellectual history. In this chat, recorded in August 2022, we discuss our family origins, mutual love of languages and her journey into learning Arabic. This is the first part of our conversation, the second part will b…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 21: Shopping for Clothes in Arabic
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In this episode, Mals joins us to chat about clothes in Arabic and how to ask for different clothes at a shop. If you like the podcast, please hit us up with a rating and comment. Don't forget to share it with other Arabic learners! Check out my Instagram page @arabicwithimranlum and my new podcast series Muslim Money. --- Send in a voice message: …
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 20: Direction phrases with Chantelle En español!
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In this episode, we chat to our friend Chantelle who also teaches us a little Spanish. For the non-Spanish speakers, just skip ahead and I'll break down some direction phrases discussed. If you like the podcast please share it with other Arabic learners and check out my Instagram page @arabicwithimranlum ma3a as-salaama! Also, I'm launching a new p…
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Intermediate Lesson 5: Interview with Financial Journalist Hassan Jivraj
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Salams and ahlan! Apologies it has been ages since I've posted a new episode. I've been working on a new podcast series called Muslim Money which I'll be launching soon. In one of the episodes, I chat with the phenomenal Hassan Jivraj who is a London-based Financial journalist primarily focusing on Middle Eastern debt capital markets, Islamic finan…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 19: Introductory Phrases with Shaher
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One of the beautiful things about Arabic and Arab culture is that when you meet someone you don't just say 'Hi'. You want to know everything about them and what's going on in their life. You want to know about their health, their family, their parents, their kids, their work etc. In this lesson Shaher will be teaching us some of these phrases. If y…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 18: What to say when you visit people on Eid with Silma Ihram
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Given Eid is in a couple of days, in this lesson we have a chat with my mother in law Silma Ihram and learn some phrases that you can use when you visit people or have people over. Here is a link to Silma's documentary Silma's School. If you like the podcasts check our my website Arabic with Imran which has more free content and check out my Instag…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 17: Conjugating اكل or He Ate in the Past Tense with Melati Lum
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I hope you all are enjoying Ramadan. In this beginners lesson I chat to my sister Melati Lum and we will be going through some sentences using the verb اكل or He Ate in the past tense. Melati is releasing her third book in the Ayesha Dean series called Ayesha Dean: The Lisbon Lawbreaker. Melati is a writer with a background in criminal law who has …
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 16: Conjugating رجع or He Returned in the Past Tense with Jean
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In this podcast we chat our friend Jean and fellow Co-Founder of Markaz in the beautiful city of Queenstown, NZ to learn how to conjugate the verb رجع. I hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70 instructional videos and 140 pages of worksheets. If yo…
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Intermediate Lesson 4: What to Say in Ramadan with Bahi
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As Ramadan is fast approaching, in this podcast we chat to my Saudi bro Bahi from Makkah and learn some phrases we can use in Ramadan with our friends and family. Try them out this Ramadan and don't forget to keep us in your prayers! Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70 instructional videos an…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 15: Mixing up the Past Tense with Faruq
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In this podcast we chat again to our friend Faruq and step through some past tense sentences. Remember to practise as if you're part of the conversation. Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70 instructional videos and 140 pages of worksheets. If you have any feedback or if you find these useful …
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Intermediate Lesson 3: Conversation with Kamal on his life and Algeria
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In this podcast we chat to a friend of mine Kamal about his life and and how he ended up in Australia. We talk about the different languages and cultures of Algeria. After the lesson, Anisa and I step through a few words and phrases. Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students for more videos and worksheets. --- …
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Intermediate Lesson 2: Conversation with Shaykh Abdurrahman Mawar
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Check out our second intermediate lesson with our teacher Shaykh Abdurrahman Mawar. Don't forget to sign up to our website for free and like our IG page! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 14: Mixing up the Past Tense with Yusra
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In this lesson, we chat with our student Yusra and go over some past tense sentences. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Intermediate Lesson 1: Introductory phrases when you greet or meet someone
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Vary rarely do you meet an old friend and just say hi, how are you. In Arabic, you'd ask how their parents are, their kids, their spouse, work, life, health among many other things. In this intermediate lesson, we're going to go through these phrases. Before we start the interview, Anisa and I will be going through some tips and how we're going to …
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 13: Conjugating سافر or He Travelled in the Past Tense with Barry Danielian
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Check out my Arabic Podcast Lesson with the phenomenal brother Barry Danielian who is a retired former trumpet player for Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. He has toured and performed with many of the biggest names in the music industry, including Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, and James Taylor. He was one of New York City’s most…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 12: Basic Past Tense Sentences in Arabic with Faruq
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In this lesson, we mix it up with our Arabic student Faruq. We're still focusing on the past tense verbs and developing basic sentences around them. Today we go through a day in the life of the great man himself Faruq; how he went to work, ate a banana with colleagues and of course going to Arabic class, exciting stuff! We also briefly talk about t…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 11: This and That - Demonstrative Pronouns
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We did this lesson at like 11:30pm after all the kids finally went to sleep so apologies if it sounds like we’re going to sleep ourselves! In today's lesson Anisa will be taking you through the demonstrative pronouns or asmaa2 ul-isharah (أسماء الإشارة). You'll learn how to say 'This is a...' to masculine and feminine objects. We’ll also walk you t…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 10: The Sun (الشمس) and Moon (القمر) letters with Shaykh Abdurrahman
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In this lesson we’re going to learn the definite and indefinite construction with our main man Mawlana Abdurrahman. He is going to teach us how to pronounce words starting with the Sun and Moon letters.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 9: Developing sentences around the Past Tense Verb ذهب / he went with Nawal
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In this lesson we expand on the verb ذهب / he went. We learn some sentences around the verb in the past tense with Nawal.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 8: Conjugating the Past Tense Verb ذهب / he went with Inty
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In this lesson we chat to Anisa about her journey learning the Arabic language and she talks about the importance of finding someone that you are comfortable speaking Arabic with. Finally, I chat to our student and good mate Inty from Inty Chiropractic where she helps us practise conjugate the verb ذهب / he went in the past tense. Don't forget to f…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 7: Conjugating the Past Tense Verb فعل with Faruq
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In this lesson, Anisa and I talk about the importance of finding the جذر or the Arabic trilateral root in words and we chat to our student Faruq on conjugating the verb فعل or he went in the past tense. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 6: Arabic Pronouns with Zoe
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Zoe is one of our buddies that is going to help us go through some basic Arabic pronouns. She has an interesting Arabic connection, her ‘jeddu’ was from Lebanon and migrated to Australia in the 1950s. Try to memorise all of the pronouns because we're going to keep referring to them throughout our lessons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcas…
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 5: Arabic Letters with Mawlana Abdurrahman and Yusuf from Chicago
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In this lesson we go through how to pronounce Arabic letters correctly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic lesson 4: More Basic Phrases with Inty
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In this Arabic lesson we go though some more basic phrases.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic Lesson 3: Basic Arabic introductions (in French)
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This lesson is a little bit random, we got through basic Arabic introductions but in French with our friend Madina. Please excuse my dodgy French! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @arabicwithimranlum --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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Beginners Arabic lesson 2: Asking 'How are you?'
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In this lesson, Anisa and I go through how to say 'How are you?' in Arabic and I have a chat to my friends Kareem and Shams from Chicago. Formal Arabic is often very different from colloquial Arabic so in this podcast we go through some of the regional differences. We'd love to hear your comments and remember to try and say the phrases out loud. Do…
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Beginners Arabic lesson 1: Introduction and essential Arabic words
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In this lesson, we introduce ourselves and go through some essential words.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message
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