Arabic Course

With this free course of 12 video lessons you will learn about the most important concepts of the Arabic language

Arabic, also called Arabic, Arabic, or Alroabía (Arabic: العربية al-ʻarabīyah or عربي/عربى ʻarabī, pronunciation: [alʕaraˈbijja] or [ˈʕarabiː]), is a macrolanguage of the Semitic family, such as Aramaic, Hebrew, Akkadian, Maltese and other similar languages. It is the fifth most spoken language in the world (number of native speakers) and is official in twenty countries and co-official in at least six others, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Classical Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam.

Modern Arabic is a descendant of Old Arabic. The Arabic language comprises both a standard variety that is observed in literacy, on formal occasions and in mass media (fuṣḥà or modern standard – اللغة العربية الفصحى, broadly based on classical Arabic but not identical to it), and numerous colloquial dialects, which can sometimes be incomprehensible to each other due to lexical and phonological differences, while maintaining greater continuity on the syntactic plane.10 In general, the dozens of Arabic dialects are divided into two main ones, Mashrequís (Eastern) and Maghreb (Western). The most understood among Arabs is the Egyptian dialect المصرية العامية, for being the most populous Arab country and also for its film production and its media and artistic presence in general.

The name of this language in the Arabic language itself is [al-luga] al-'arabiyya (the Arabic [language]), although in some dialects such as Egyptian it is called 'arabī (in masculine gender).