Beginner - Who is taller?

As Salaamu Alaikum and shukran for sending this new lesson. I really enjoy this site and have been studying at least 4 days a week for 20-30 minutes. I love this site as I had been studying for ears and was still very broken in my conversation.I recently moved to the khaleej/Gulf and really needed to spruce up my conversation and your site has helped me alot. My sister-in-law recommended your site as she uses it daily in her homeschooling lessons with her children. The lessons are well explained, entertaining, and the dialogues are realistic situations. I was happy when I saw this new lesson in my mailbox. Please keep up the good work.

Hello everybody.
I am so glad that i found this site.I started to lern arabic by myself few months ago by disk.But in that disk language was with Egiptian dialect.And now viewing the lessons here i found many differences between i learnt before and i am learning now.Can you tell me, wich dialect are used in this lessons?I want to learn Classical arabic(fuSha)...
I am a bit confused, because the words pronounced and spelled differently in different dialects.The second question is about written language.When i stared to learn how to write the words(in my disk),i was understanding everything, because in each word it was mentioned fatHa, kasra and damma(the short vowels).But i noticed that actually those vowels are not used in sentences at all.How can you know which vowel you should pronounce after consonant?Yeah the arabs can do it easily, but for those who only startd to learn it, it is a bit complecated.I will be much appreciated if someone explain me this fact.

Regards,
Olesya

Wonderful way of teaching

من هو أفضل في اللغة العربية ، انا او ايهاب او موشايا
طبعا، ايهاب وموشايا أحسن منك
ولكن اعتقد انني افضل من كلا هما

لا تتكلم هراء
تعال ، أنا فقط أمارس اسم تفضيل!! فهمت
عبد الحميد خان من مومباي

Ahlan Olesya;
We are glad that you found new source to teach you Arabic, we teach mainly Classical Arabic (Fus7a) however there are lessons where we use dialects to cover most aspects of the language.
About your second question (using 7arakaat). ArabicPod uses podcast system to teach the language, meaning, the audio file is the main material to learn, and the transcript helps you to get deeper to the words. 7arakat are used in the audio and people hear it and apply it without even realizing that there are 7arakat. For instance, to learn - from day one - that the word (كيف) is pronounced like (kayfa) not (koyfa or keefa) would stick it in your brain like this, and whenever you see it you'll pronounce it like this. You are right, Arabs (native speakers) know 7arakat without even thinking of it, and we aim that you guys would be able to reach this level too.
I hope that makes sense.. I wish you will be able to read and write Arabic with us soon, with and without 7arakaat :)
حظاً طيباً (Good luck)

Hamidkhan;
That was a good one :)
By the way, Moshaya in Arabic is مشيع but English has no 3ain letter therefore we used to say it Moshaya :)
Is that right Moshaya3 :)
Salam

Ehab shukran for your message.Hope with time i will manage to read fluently without 7arakat.The main thing is "strong wish" to learn this language.I have it and i'll do my best to reach advanced level.Inshaalla.
Ana andi su'al,now i am in beginner level,how will i know that it is time to start next level, it depends on my wish or after a while you will download any test or something else.What is the system of the courses?

ma3asalama. :cheese:

Assalam alaikum!
Every day i go through your site,I discover new interesting thing.Your video teaching is exiting.My only problem,I don't understan english so much,I am a french speaking.is there a link for french in your site?
hayaka allah

Wa alaikum alsalam Jamil,

Welcome to the site! Hope you will find it beneficial.

Unfortunately, at the moment there are no podcasts that teaches Arabic to French speakers, but you never know, we might manage to do such a site in the future ;-)

Another wonderful podcasts guys! Sorry I've been really busy the past few months, but I still give a listen to the lessons 3-4 times a week during work! I also think the lay out of the website is fantastic! I am highly impressed with the videos! Have you guys ever thought of approaching the British equivalent of the Ministry of Education??? Unfortunately, in America we're so slow to learn languages that we do not have Arabic in almost all high schools. I wish that I had these courses when I was in college learning it!
شكرا جزيلا يا معلمي

مع تحياتي
تومز

Welcome back tomest05! We wondered where you were. Glad you like the new layout. We’re really lacking in support at the moment, so we’ll consider contacting the British department of education. Thanks for the suggestion. Keep it up with ArabicPod :)

One question that just occured to me:

Isn't "Am" supposed to be used here, instead of "Aw"?

Shukran Lakumaa

Ahlan Afreeqiya
Or in Arabic could mean (am) or (aw). aw is used all the time apart from if it is in question, which means we should have used (am), but in a beginner lesson, if we used (am), that would caused confusion since aw is the dominant case, and therefore (aw) was preferred especially it does not sound wrong if you are just talking.. but if I'm using it in a newspaper article, then I'll be more specific in using it.
You still have a good point. and we normally try to give the simplest ways of speaking in the essential lessons, and trying to use things lead us to start explaining things that makes people confused.
Hope that explain the reason behind it.
Salam

assalamualaikum to all

very very good it is a long time for me to get this type of lesson. thanks to Allah n you all .

Correct the correction..
In my previous comment above when I answered Afreeqiya that we should have used (am) instead of (aw) because it came inside a question (read my previous comment).
Here am correcting this, I was checking an advanced Arabic reference today and I found (aw) is dominant always and it means (or), but there is only one case where we use (am) instead of (aw) which is in a question that starts with alef, i.e. أقلت ذلك أم لم تقل
This alef before (قلت) is called alef altasweyah and it should take (am) not (aw).
When I spotted that today, I said: really, the more I go in deep of Arabic, the more I love it,, it is amazing language.
Salaaam

Great site for beginners. I am on of them. I am glad to find it. It is very very helpful to know correct pronunciation and meaning of arabic words with explanations an much more, specially when you start. Thank you very much (Shukran jazeelan) for you guys: Mohamed Moshe,Ihab Saleh.Keep doing what you do.
God Bless.Olena

how about when your asking a girl if she's taller does it change, like for him and her and them and they

Ahlan sports-music-89;
If you are asking a girl, then the only difference is to use (anti) instead of (anta), so the question would be: man a6wal, anti aw Wa2el?
Remember that (anti) means “you” (feminine), while (anta) is “you” (masculine).
Bettawfeeq
Ehab

This lesson is very good as the other 44 thanks.
In comparison to say I have a doubt I'm as big as X wing inverza person or can I use mathal or ... كـ? or both?
Example
ibbraheem qaSeer ka-Farees
Ibrahim is as short as Farid

Or should I put like this:
ibraheem qaSeer mathj fareed

To be honest with you, both can be used, but I prefer using (methl) as it is used more (Ibraaheem qa9eer methl Fareed).

اشكرك :-)