Course Tag: World Language

The year the letters start to speak. Students learn the harakat — fatha, kasra, damma, sukoon, tanween and shaddah — and how letters join in

Madinah Book 3 opens. Durus 1–11 cover the منقوص noun class, the five verbs and secondary case markers, the passive voice in past and present

Durus 12–22 of Madinah Book 3, and the year Arabic becomes a reading language. Conditional sentences, the causative forms أَفْعَل and فَعَّل, advanced broken plurals,

The final year of the Madinah sequence. Durus 23–34 of Book 3 bring واو الحال, ما المصدريّة الظرفيّة, the Pattern IX colour verbs, أسلوب الاستثناء

The tajweed year. Six lessons, each one slow and drill-heavy: what tajweed is and why Allah commanded tarteel, madd and elongation, the four rules of

Vocabulary and fluency, ending at the doorstep of Madinah Book 1. Students build everyday Arabic — classroom commands, body parts and colours, numbers, days and

The first year of formal Madinah Arabic. Students open Book 1 and work through Durus 1–7: the demonstratives هذا and ذلك, هذه and تلك, the

Durus 8–15 of Madinah Book 1 — the year the pronoun system is completed. Ownership with لـ and with عِند, three-part nominal sentences, فيه and

Durus 16–22, closing Madinah Book 1. Plural agreement in full sentences, the dual (المثنى) in both cases, and the number-gender reversal rule for 3–10 with