Saturday, April 6, 2024

What! learn Hiragana and katana, Wait, there is an easier method for foreign students



I could not imagine starting my first course with an alphabet book, with strokes, it is like crab walking on strings, perhaps ready to fall and break into parts like humpty dumbty, oh my God, what is this?


This article may ease off the learning curves. I Tell you what, throw that Hiragana, katana alphabet book and focus on this direct learning method, no fuss. 


Here is a scenario, you just bought a book with an awesome cover design, eager to open the book. You know what?


The first page highlighted the importance of Hiragana, katana, you look for a while, then your brain goes blank, the intel parts in your brain spit out, and you drop dead with blood oozing out from your nose. Yeah! That’s learning.


You will find that some of the students dead, body hang like computer and you can hear tooooot. Dead brain cells.


By just looking at the Hiragana, kanji Japanese alphabets, my mind blows out with screws and brain juice! Is there a simpler tip besides starring at the alphabets and poof, my brain locked out, and I must go to sleep for I just can’t take it. I used up my brain power! If I am a robot the battery gets drained and system hang. Oh know, I am stuck with a book like learning “A,B,C”. but wait, some of us may even struggle with Hiragana, and katana, but listen to what sponge bob says, “One year later!” “Two years later” his body drooping and eyes tired of too much learning. His head drop into the sand, frustrated. He said, “I can’t survive!” so, same again for new learners. because it is the wrong step of learning a foreign language.


By the way, I am here to Share my ninja techniques to speak Japanese.


You see, before taking a Japanese beginner course, most importantly, you need to have purpose which initiate passion to learn that language, that said, you must have a good reason.


Next, a good and easy book for picking up words, step-by-step. Never ever think that learning a foreign language is like drinking Coca-Cola. You Gurgle up the drink and you are good to go! You know a good book is an investment that last for years in your Japanese learning discoveries.


Throw the Japanese Hiragana books and start speaking on day one-How? You belief what will happen next.


The most important fundamental to start learning a foreign language course like Japanese or Arabic language is to build confidence. Start your learning program by speaking simple phrases. That is a secret tip, hey dude don’t tell anyone about this information, because if students know this secret, then the gurus would not make any money.


Next on the list is to speak Japanese daily and memorize words, you commit yourself in memorizing at least 5 or 10 words a day. Never memorize a full sentence. Okay, or else you become crazy! And interesting a sentence is built up of words and you just match them like playing Lego. Huh! Yes, take it easy dude. The more vocabulary you know the better you can enhance your language skills.


On your learning Japanese language quest, pick up the usage of Japanese grammar, read and understand the language concept. Here are some problems with learners, they speak grammar concepts such as using the pronoun, ‘watashi’ every time they meet people. Yes, that is correct, but some phrases not to be use in the real world. Why? Here is an interesting story. I was in Damascus, Syria, as a student in my university years. One day one of the college girls who just came for an overseas course went to a shop to buy some food. She said this in Arabic, ‘I want a fish inside a can’. In Arabic she said, ‘oreed samak fe (tin)’. The grocer was shocked, for he never sells any fish inside a (fig fruit). Then he said, (quessing) aha, ‘Ante toredeen sardeen’- it means in English, ‘you want sardine’. She said, yes. The lesson is, whatever you learn in a book may differ when speaking in public.


But at this moment, when you are just starting to learn a new foreign language, the best bet, is to speak and practice whatever vocabularies that you have learnt. Never wait, to finish learning Hiragana, kanji, and katana, by that time, you enter the grave. with eyes popped out of your head, and brain damage due to too much of this crazy alphabets. Take our course, guaranteed can speak!


Later, if you mastered Japanese, you start learning the alphabets by reading and writing, and whatever phrase you know, you need to write the Japanese phrase. That said, reading and writing is the fundamental of learning a foreign language course. You must know how to read and write Japanese. You cannot skip this!



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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Tips to learn a new foreign language



Learning a new foreign Language is intricate, and most people who wanted to learn something new, find obstacle to learn. the reason is stated below this line. 

 

That’s right the topic just stated boldly of the issue at hand. But the reason people forgo taking up new language course is fear factor.

 

FEAR FACTOR

 

Some people took a course for one week and suddenly disappeared and some students tried to hold on the thread of learning but NEVER COMPLETE the course.

 

You know, I am going to tell you the truth about my learning journey. I was curious to learn but taking a course and working at the same time is a pressure to me. So, I took up a part-time course for two years. That does not work for me to understand the language, but still, I can’t even speak Arabic. I evaluated the reason for this failure. First to blame is myself, because I have no time to revise the lessons and yet to memorize some basic words. I decided to improve myself by taking a big decision in life. When others toil the day with work.

 Here is a link to my easy book


I said, I need to commit by learning the course on a daily basis. And you know, I did it. and the benefit is tremendous. And out of the blues, I find lots to learn.

 

When a decision is made, the brain starts to tick.

 

 

I left my country to FOCUS ON LEARNING. With some dollars at hand, travel to Indonesia and Syria. I spend years to learn. I said, I will learn for 10 years. But, in your case, we make it easy for you.

 

The secret to LEARNING A NEW FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

  • Learn basics of the alphabets and writing.
  • Read words in the foreign language
  • Memorize new words and do a spelling test
  • Memorize basic dialogues
  • Speak daily.

 

Here are the wrong steps in learning

  • NEVER start learning with grammar books
  • AVOID using the transliteration of the foreign language phrase
  • The learner did not speak the language
  • No plan and target goal to memorize new words

 

The potential learner who will succeed learning the new foreign language depends entirely on his discipline and commitment to learn. 

 

Here are some facts to achieve your potential:

  • You need to allocate time to revise new lessons
  • A phone to save audios and listen when you travel
  • A small pocket notebook to write down new words
  • Practice writing and spelling foreign language words
  • Aspiration to learn foreign language
  • Books as reference
  • Engaged with the foreign language by Speaking it daily and reading more reference books
  • Believed that you can achieve the foreign language feat, because others in Arab’s continents and across the globe in Asia and Indonesia speak foreign language.

 


Here is a link to my easy book

 

 



Monday, March 14, 2022

Why some Muslims neglected prayers?

 

The neglection and noncompliance of prayers has been a phenomenon part of person who is a born Muslim. Neglections does not start when he first took up a job. But during his school days as a young boy, the public school that he studied never instructs or initiate prayer in congregation and adding to that scenario a broken family or perhaps a family which has no Islamic environment of doing congregation prayers.

 

Some people think educating the children with academic may assure his future, because to meet ambitions.  But Islam wants Muslim to be balance in this world and eternity life.

 

Repentance is not for those who do evil deeds. Even if someone came to death, he said that I repent now. Nor those who die while they are infidels. Those for whom We have prepared a painful punishment. Al-Quran: An-Nisa verse 13

 

The above verse: denied accepting repentance from two groups of people, those who commit sins, big and small, they continue to do so without repentance or regret, even if death approaches them. And when they saw horrors, they said: I repent now.

 

This is some of the excuses, waiting for the last breath and waiting for the angel of death to pull out their souls.

 

Imagine the Meccan people who worship deities and statues. To face these types of people is just like talking to the wall of emptiness and heartless people.

 

When the prophet Muhammad SAW, contemplate life in Mecca thinking to change the people of Mecca, it is like moving mountains of stubborn and arrogant people, but Allah SWT shows guidance to the prophet SAW by sending angel Jibril A.S for the first time an astonishing message that change the facet of life and transform low class people to humans who worship heart and soul to Allah and change the world and extending Islam across continents. It starts from these nomads with a message from Allah SWT

 

Read in the name of Allah who created, who created man from a drop of blood 

 

The new Muslims were anxious to practice Islam. They perform prayers at the Kaaba but their existence trying to implement Islam always get attention from the infidels who would curse them. And they have no choice but pray secretly. But now there are lots of opportunities to do prayers but more reasons and excuses because faith doesn’t absorb into the heart and soul but instead Islam is just a slogan declared by using a Muslim name. You will notice the phenomenon of Muslims neglecting their prayers. They have no time to pray but they have time to smoke cigarettes, crack jokes and worst end some phrases with vulgarizes.

 

What happen to the Muslims?

 

A simple reply is just faith doesn’t absorb into their hearts because faith has not emerged as the significant transformation of their activities but neglection is apparently no excuse because every person is held accountable on the day of judgment. Some have no time to take up courses to enhance knowledge and improve credentials and yet the inability to perform night prayers that is “tahadjud”.

 

But here is the condition of those people when they met on that day to be judged.

 

 And if you see the criminals bowing their heads before their Lord, oh, our Lord, we have seen and heard, so return us back (Quran: As-sajdah verse 12

 

Interpretation of this verse stated by Abu Al-Abbas and the meaning should be O Muhammad, say to the criminals, they bowed their heads before their Lord in humiliation, remorse, shame and sadness. And they are accountable and rewarded with their deeds.

 


That I might do righteousness in that which I left behind" No It is only a word he is saying, and behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected

Al-Quran: Al-Mukminun Verse:100


What's the solution? 


Knowledge is utmost importance to ensure that the deeds perform is acceptable. However forgoing knowledge is like someone doing deeds but not knowing the deeds he did is nullified. Example: He doesn’t know the correct ablution, or he did read the Al fatihah but his recitation of “tajweed” is not right.


Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - he said: “Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge on it, God will make easy for him a path to Paradise, and the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, contented with what he did, Indeed, whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, even the whales in the water, will ask forgiveness for him, and the superiority of the scholar over the worshiper is like the superiority of the moon over all the other planets, and that scholars are the heirs of the prophets, and that the prophets did not bequeath a dinar or a dirham, but rather they inherited knowledge. Narrated by Abu Dawood, At-Tirmidzi, , Ibnu Majah, Darmi and Ahmad. Hadits Hasan

 


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Let’s make some effort to be closer to Allah SWT by learning something new to understand Islam. The more knowledge a person has for him to implement, he becomes more valuable, and his deeds is much quality however whatever you do be sincere to please Allah SWT is the key to success. Be always humble because a Muslim is a servant of his Lord. Even though you may have a top-ranking job, do not ever take it lightly, because on the day of judgement Allah SWT will question whatever you did. Rules and regulation a person imposed on the Muslims nation will be question.


 

 

 

 

Sunday, November 28, 2021

How to read Arabic and teach yourself or your child Arabic alphabets

 

Let’s learn the Arabic alphabet in small chunks. Three alphabets per day. Yes, you heard it clear, just three alphabets a day.

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د

ج

ب

da

ja

ba

 

Write these alphabets on an A5 size paper or carton paper. Flash in front of student or child, say out load the alphabet. Slowly: from right to left. Ba, Ja, da

The alphabet above is not in sequence. This is for to take a visual photogenic image of the alphabets.

Next, group these alphabets and start flashing it in front of the student and say out load again; this time a fast motion of moving the flash cards. from right to left. Ba, Ja, da

Now not in sequence: da, ja, ba


Then: ja, ba, da.

Now give your learner the cards for him to hold and really observe the alphabets.

The next day; repeat these alphabets again, once the learner mastered the alphabets, you can move on to the next letter. Not in the alphabetic sequence.

 

ل

ض

س

la

Dha

sa

 

Practice the same method above

The second day practice alphabets: sa, Dha, la. Once the learner say the correct alphabets. Start revising the first day lesson such as.

 

د

ج

ب

da

ja

ba

ل

ض

س

la

Dha

sa

 

Again, the alphabets are flash out not in sequence.

In couple of weeks, you can master Arabic alphabets. Once you know the 28 alphabets, you start to introduce strokes on the alphabets.

 

دَ

جَ

بَ

da

ja

ba

 

A stroke on the alphabet is read as “A” that said; ba, ja and da

Practice more alphabets

 

دَ

جَ

بَ

da

ja

ba

لَ

ضَ

سَ

la

Dha

sa

 

Now the next step is to read the 28 alphabets with strokes, this time in sequence:

  

تَ

بَ

أَ

ta

ba

Aa

حَ

جَ

ثَ

ha

ja

tsa

 

Next step

تَ أَ بَ

بَ أَ بَ

أَ بَ تَ

Ta Aa ba

Ba Aa ba

Aa ba ta

بَ أَ تَ

أَ أَ بَ

بَ بَ تَ

Ba Aa ta

Aa Aa ba

Ba ba ta

 Here is a link to the recommended Arabic alphabet book for you

Having an Arabic resource is crucial for you to know Arabic, it just some skills related to discovering a new foreign language and learning Arabic is just a process.

 

Do you have recommendation of learning the Arabic alphabet book?

There are lots of this type of book in the market, but this book is good for you


How can I learn and master the Arabic alphabet to the same level I can read English? (I speak it natively). I want to go word by word but am currently only going letter by letter, any help is appreciated.

 Reply:

This book consists of youtube.com links to learn basic Arabic alphabets and writing techniques. The book is designed for students to master reading and writing skills during their first step in taking this Arabic course, once they master basic Arabic alphabets the book will teach merging of letters and later on new Arabic words and sentence. The QR codes links to video Arabic alphabets. Explained clearly. There is no transliteration of Arabic alphabets. by the time students reach the middle of this book, they can read and write thus, to develop their skill set, we have enhanced the course with new Arabic words and sentence taken step by step to teach Arabic.  This is in series 1 of this Arabic book. However, in series 2, still in the pipeline, we will increase writing skills and sentence and speaking Arabic skills.

It is best if student know the alphabets, then read and at the same time write the alphabets.

□    Use a pencil to trace and erase off mistakes and rewrite again. Teachers should check students writing and sign on the page and instruct students to write properly.

□    Encourage students to memorize new words

□   There is no space in between alphabets unless it is a word. A space separates word. We recommend the book for your learning discoveries. 

 

I can speak Arabic to a good extent, but I can't read or write it. How long would it take for me to learn the alphabet and thus read and write it?

Reply: 

"It depends on your commitment to learn reading and if possible, writing the alphabets. We have college students taking the post graduate course. They start learning alphabets from zero, they speak English and had never learn Arabic in their life time but, within 72 hours of lesson, they manage to read and write Arabic and there more interesting stories of student who is successful in learning the Arabic language course". really recommend this book: learning discoveries. 

 

How do you read Arabic without harakat (Arabic diacritic)?

"Once you take this Arabic course, you can master harakat".

 

Editor

  


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Saturday, November 27, 2021

it is hard to learn Arabic language but why?

 

Why is it difficult to learn Arabic language?

There are some debates and comments on students who took up Arabic language course, but unfortunately drop out due to some disturb factors and concerns for some lecturers,

Here are some comments:

Is it hard to learn Arabic on your own? Can I really speak Arabic?

Yes, whatever subject a person is learning, he typically needs guidance and of course a good book. More than that an Arabic teacher who can teach him to master the Arabic language.

There should not be any debate or argument that the language is “fusha” (classical) or dialects. English speakers have dialects because the Americans and the British has different slang. Let’s not fight over this statement.

Some may comment:

"Oh my Gosh the Arabic alphabets is cursive, and I can’t literally understand or write it".

Reply: Dear Bro, every language has basic alphabets even English has it, Japanese language and all language has alphabets. Isn’t that true. The Arabic learner has to go through a process of learning from basic Arabic alphabets to writing, of course it needs practice for sure. Start basic and build confidence.

 Start learning basic Arabic: Lower Beginner Arabic

Any person who wants to learn a foreign language course, must start form basic. That is a true fact. No body just magically master and speak fluent Arabic by taking one lesson and becomes a pro in Arabic.



 

So, the question is: 

How do I start learning Arabic language?

Lots of people wanted to learn the Arabic Course from basic but failed down the road. Here are some reasons:

  • You need a good basic Arabic book, which teach fundamentals and speaking Arabic in your first lesson.
  • Intention to learn this Arabic beginner course from zero. It needs extra effort from the Arabic learner to know new vocabularies by saying the Arabic words and writing and spelling
  • An Arabic syllabus with basic topics
  • Don't waste your time learning the Arabic grammar at this time
  • You just need to intensify yourself by speaking Arabic on a daily basis
  • Memorize and use some simple Arabic phrase 

 

Get the basic Arabic book: Lower Beginner Arabic 

"I had reviewed this Arabic lower beginner language book and wanted to say something about this book".

 

Basic phrase from:

Lesson 1: What’s your name?

Lesson 2: How are you?

Lesson 3: What is this?

Lesson 4: This is?

Lesson 5: Who are you?

Lesson 6: Who is this?

Lesson 7: Where do you live?

Lesson 8: I speak little Arabic?

Lesson 9: What’s the number?

Lesson 10: Who lives with you?

You will notice that the topics are simple, You don’t need to be a  professor to master and speak Arabic. or holding a diploma degree. Generally learning a new foreign language is just some new skills you learn and discovered. Once you know the Arabic phrase and vocabularies, it is yours, and can empower you to speak Arabic in any situation. You just need to allocate time to speak Arabic in just 30 minutes of your time. Wow! Isn't that great. But bro I just want to say. The best person is you and be creative in your learning process.

Hey what’s that process? 

  • Voice over by recording your voice using the iPhone and save it on your flash drive 
  • Plug in to your car audio, and just listen on the go.

 Get the Arabic resource book: Lower Beginner Arabic

Try this book, you can view the e-book on your phone or tablet and it is very cheap or you may even request a print version at an affordable price. You know resource and tools are quite expensive, but e-books are just like a price of food and coffee.

"I had read this book, and gave a big thumbs up. sure can speak Arabic before you know it, and speak all the above topics"

Moz Sa'ad