Marhaba marx-hi about 3 years ago I made a similar post and ended up teaching a comrade for almost 2 years, and I loved teaching my native tongue so I wanna go on that journey again, especially now that I have so much experience and already made the “course material”, it’s a fun “side hustle”.

Ofc I make sure to adapt the lessons and study plan to the student’s interests and pace. I try to incorporate Comprehensible Input as much as possible even though it’s very scarce to find input made for learners. I think language learning has to be fun, engaging and things need to make sense, and believe me Arabic makes a lot of sense unlike English.

You can dm me from a throwaway account if you want. Let me know if you have any questions about Arabic or my approach to teaching. And dw about money, really!

And if there is enough interest we can have group lessons as well... just let me know if you're interested and we can try to make it work ت

Arabic is nowhere near as intimidating as you think, it actually has internal logic and consistency

I'm just gonna quote what @prolepylene said about his experience learning Arabic

Learning languages is hard, but I find it very rewarding. My lessons are fun, the language itself makes sense in a way that allows me to infer meanings and uses I don't explicitly know, and it teaches me about English almost as much as Arabic. Arabic as a language makes a lot more sense than English. A big part of it is that Arabic isn’t a bastard language of Germanic and Romantic influences, though the history of the Arabic world has left it with many loan words from the west. The other big thing is MSA (Modern Standara Arabic), though not really spoken colloquially, is actively managed to make it universal and easy to learn. In my opinion, the script is the least intimidating part of the language.

The [Arabic root system] is pretty great. At first I wasn’t sure how it was substantially different from the Latin root system, but comparatively to English the Arabic root system is everywhere throughout the language. As you learn the forms and patterns you can break down basically all verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to a base form and a pattern that you can use to infer meaning.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Duolingo is a fine practice aid for Western European languages but most other languages are extremely underdeveloped. I've taken a stab at Duolingo Arabic and found it to be next to useless.

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      like in my experience there's a clear tier ranking.

      • Spanish, French, Portuguese - you can learn the language pretty well, at least for reading, working exclusively with Duolingo.
      • Mandarin - if you already know the language, or are learning it by other means, it can be a practice aid.
      • Hindi, Arabic, Japanese - who tf is this even for?

      Your odds are dramatically worse if it's in a non-Latin script. us-foreign-policy