A tip about learning Arabic

When I first started learning Arabic,

I was very excited. Everything was

new to me and there was so much to

learn. So I took a lot of judicial notes. 

 

But I didn't just take textual notes;

I made charts and diagrams.

I would spend hours in front of my

computer. And, you know what, the
funny thing is that my notes weren't

even really that good. All I spent my

time on, really, was making sure they

*looked* good. 

 

But all that time I "wasted" was actually

not a waste at all. That was all quality

time with the material. It didn't matter

that I was getting things wrong; what

mattered was that I was putting effort into
my work, I was developing a passion for

the language, and I was spending quality

time with the fundamentals. 

 

What's even more amazing about

making charts and diagrams, even if
they're wrong at first, is that you

get to look at the information in a

different way, maybe in a way no

one's ever seen it before. 

 

You know, when it comes to something

called Weak Verbs in Arabic, the
Arabs have 10 main rules for dealing

with them.

 

Because I took Weak
Verbs and looked at them from a

different perspective through diagrams
and charts, I was able to reduce the

number of rules to 5, something never

before done in the history of the

Arabic language! 

 

You can view a summary of the

findings here (See Irregularity Rules):

http://www.learnarabiconline.com/morphology-summary.shtml

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