Today we are beginning
we are beginning our journey
of our 6 part 'Learn Arabic Series'
my name is Mike, Arabic Mike on YouTube
and today we're going to talk about: why learn Arabic?
why learn Arabic?
Well... where do I begin... welcome to Egypt by the way
I'm here in Giza at the one remaining seven wonders of the world
and what better place to think about this question
and ponder this question, why learn Arabic
I learned Arabic, I've lived abroad
I've lived in the middle east and I'm travelling in the middle east
and I spend an awful lot of time here
and I'll tell you what, if you're ever going to travel abroad, travel to the middle east
learning just a little bit of the language
and that's what we're aiming for here
we're not aiming to get fluent in 4 months cos that's probably not gonna happen
but we're aiming to get a kick start to the language
so that you can at least say 'hello how are you please thank you what's your name...'
those are all the kinds of things we're going to be covering in this 6 part series
but why learn Arabic?
well... there's the obvious reasons, you know, and it allows you to connect more deeply
with the people that you will meet when you're here for sure
like I've just met some people on the way up here
a guy came up to this point where I'm filming right now and asked me what I was doing
the fact I spoke Arabic kind of helped me I think
he let me go and then gave me some chewing gum
so that kind of created a bond
he was an Egyptian guy by the way I should point out
his English wasn't great so we spoke mostly Arabic
and you know there is something invaluable about learning a language
whether that's Arabic or German or Norwegian or whatever
whatever it is, Japanese, Chinese, anything
now, there are some things money can't buy
and I think it was Naval Ravikant who said
'a fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love.
These things cannot be bought - they must be earned'.
you have to train for them and learning a language is one of those things you have to
train to learn a language
it does take commitment it takes time
it takes energy and there will be times when you feel like
I'm done with this - and that's what my channel is all about
it's here to keep you enthusiastic and engaged and you can come back to my videos
and I hope that will kind of inspire you to keep learning Arabic
even if it is just five or ten new words a day
a few new phrases here and there
that is going to be invaluable to your language learning
one thing just to be really clear about
before we get going on this next 5 parts is that
there are several different dialects of Arabic
what we will be learning in this series is MSA Arabic
that stands for Modern Standard Arabic
and it can be understood anywhere in the Arab speaking world
right now I'm in Egypt and the Egyptian Arabic they speak here is slightly different
from the MSA just like the gulf Arabic is slightly different from MSA
but my advice and the advice of most Arabic teachers in my experience
is to learn MSA first and get a good grounding in the root language
which is the core language which is the MSA
and then if you want to you can go on and learn a dialect like Egyptian
like Lebanese, like gulf Arabic or something like that
a couple of things to mention: on this journey I strongly recommend you
keep a notebook, in the next few lessons, in this series,
you will be introduced to lots of new words and lots of new phrases
now I really urge you to write those down
in a word document or in a notebook or something like that
just to keep track of what you're learning
so that you can then revisit it and it will then trigger what you've learned
you will then recognise it and remember those words and phrases you've learned
so keep a record and that will really help you with your progress
if I sound like a teacher it's cos I am one
I do have a Patreon where you can if you have a direct question for me you can get me on
patreon
and if you would like to get yourself an online Arabic teacher - I don't teach online personally
but you can find an online Arabic teacher at the link in the comments
with that said and done
please consider supporting my channel at patreon.com/ArabicMike
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