Answering the most common questions about learning Arabic

About this episode

Steve Kaufmann interviews Hasan Alhamwi about learning Arabic and the challenges faced by learners.

I've been chipping away at Arabic for years, and I recently sat down with Hasan Alhamwi, the founder of Arabic All The Time. He left a career in civil engineering to build the largest library of Arabic comprehensible input on the internet. We talked about why videos beat textbooks for Arabic, when learners should finally start reading, and whether all those dialects are really one language or many. If you're learning Arabic, what's giving you the most trouble?

People in this episode

Host: Steve Kaufmann

Guest: Hasan Alhamwi

Topics covered

• learning Arabic
• Arabic dialects
• comprehensible input
• language learning methods
• reading in Arabic

Keywords

• Arabic
• language learning
• comprehensible input
• dialects
• reading
• videos vs textbooks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arabic All The Time

Places: Arabic

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