Teaching scams

I see lots is people who are offering to teach others for money. lots of people go for paid sessions rather than free because by nature we expect paid sessions will be more effective and professional.

As a native Arabic speaker I see lots of offerings to teach Arabic, but most of them are not even qualified, being a native speaker doesn't make you qualified to teach the language. A native speaker can help teaching the basics maybe intermediate level but for advance level you need an expert.

As an example, Arabic grammar is very advanced level even many native Arabic speakers don't know it well, when trying to explain them to non Arabic speakers you need to simplify this as much as possible so others can get your point, you must use the proper terminologies in order to explain such a thing and the most important thing you need is communication skills,

I saw some offerings where the tutor is not able to write a correct simple sentence in English! How is he/she supposed to help others? You don't have the knowledge and you shouldn't charge people for teaching them wrong.
In my opinion if i am a native english speaker and i am trying to learn arabic and the tutor cannot speak english fluent enough for me to understand what he is saying I won't trust him at all.

The bottom line is: charging people for teaching them is a big responsibility and before giving away our money we must make sure that the tutor is according to our expectations

Solar and Lunar letters in Arabic !

When reading in Arabic, there is something called "Al Al-ta'reef" "ال التعريف" which is same as "the" and its attached to the beginning of any noun.

sometimes when attaching "Al" then reading the word you find it difficult to pronounce the "L" clearly and sometimes not, thus the letters are divided into two groups

A group where you can pronounce the "L" easily "lunar letters":

if you attached the "Al Al-ta'reef" to the word "moon" in Arabic you will find it very easy to pronounce the "L":

القمر => Al Qamar

A group where you can't "Solar letters":

attaching the "Al Al-ta'reef" to the word "sun" in Arabic

الشمس => Al Shams

you find it much more easier to pronounce it without the "L" like saying "A Shams"

Conclusion:

Lunar letters are:

أ، ب، ج، ح، خ، ع، غ، ف، ق، ك، م، هـ، و، ي

Solar letters:

ت، ث، د، ذ ،ر، ز، س، ش، ص، ض، ط، ظ، ل، ن

hope this helps a bit :)

Learning Arabic

I love learning languages and I wish I have the time to do so but unfortunately I am very busy.

To learn a language you must keep practicing every day and you must be very dedicated so you don't forget otherwise you will need to go over everything again.

I studied Japanese - level 1- at college and I really loved it but after that I stopped as I didn't have the time.

so for now, because I am craving to learn Japanese I thought why not to help others who want to learn Arabic, I started searching for online courses and the results I viewed were not good, poor quality lessons
 and which was supposed to teach you "MSA: modern standard Arabic" was mixing up between MSA and other Arabic dialects.

I really love Arabic specially poems <3<3<3 and I am planning to post some of my favorites and explain it in English for others who might be interested.

Each Arabian country has it is own dialect, most of the times each city has it is own dialect. and countries within the same region have similar dialects ... etc.

And because of that we don't use MSA in our daily life, it is only used for formal purposes.

MSA is developed by reading, the more you read the better you get. Unfortunately, many Arabs don't read it is just not what they like to do in their free time thus you will find lots of Arabs not good in MSA or they have average skills.

I am posting this because lots are saying learning Arabic is difficult, but the fact is many Arabs find it difficult as well because in order to learn Arabic you need to read and get familiar with the language -after learning the basics- of course, an important point is try to read Arabic literature not any regular Arabic book.

Arabic language is really connected to Islam, Qura'an is written in standard Arabic and religious books are written in higher level MSA.

finally, I am offering my help to anyone who wants to learn Arabic although I don't think that I am a very good teacher, but I will do my best.