Lesson 1 – الدَّرْسُ الأوَّلُ

This is… - هَـٰذَا...  

Revision – مُرَاجَعَةٌ

• In this section we shall cover a number of the phrases we have already learnt and we shall learn some new vocabulary In-Shā'-Allâh (God willing).

Please click on the words to hear speech, i.e. how the words should be pronounced.

• In the next part of this lesson we will practice writing and reading skills, In-Shā'-Allâh (God willing). Please write out the following words below including their translation. It is important to practice writing in the duration of this course and to be able to read without translations. If you are unsure what the words below mean, please revisit the previous sections of this lesson, all the words below have already been covered earlier.
• You will also notice that the words below do not have vowel-marks, i.e. /đammah/, /kasrah/ and /fatħah/. The vowel-marks have been deliberately omitted because when you read Arabic in normal literature, vowel-marks are seldom used. The context and your experience of words will enable you to read the word properly. The words below should be apparent without the vowel-marks as we have covered them several times already.

• You have now completed lesson 1. To summarise, the areas we have covered are:

• The Demonstrative Pronoun - هَـٰذَا 'This is…'
• The particleأَ  as in أَهَـٰذَا...؟ i.e. 'Is This a...?'
• The word مَا  which means 'what' as inمَا هَـٰذَا؟  - 'What is this?'
• The words for Yes and No - نَعَمْ and لا respectively.
• The word مَنْ  which means 'who' as in مَنْ هَـٰذَا؟ - 'Who is this?'
• Several new words - these have to be memorised as vocabulary is very important to learn the Arabic language. The following table shows the new words that we learnt so far in this lesson:

• If you feel confident with the lesson covered, please move on to the next lesson where we will cover the Demonstrative Pronoun – ذَلِكَ which means 'That is…’. The next lesson is a short and relatively straightforward lesson, In-Shā'-Allâh (God willing). Please click on next lesson button below to go to lesson two.

• Now that you have covered this lesson, please also try some of the additional features we have including:

o   Discussion Forum– Discuss the grammatical topics learnt and any areas of confusion.

o   Vocabulary Flashcards– Practice your vocabulary by category.

o   Questions Flashcards– Practice questions related to the grammatical topics covered in the lessons.

• We will be updating the features above to help you throughout the course In-Shā’-Allâh (God willing).