 In this video, you are going to see the 800 days of Arabic progress of one of the students at theAndersInstitute.com and you will see how he went from this to this. The difference in between the two previous videos is that in one, he didn't know Arabic. In the next one, he knows Arabic. For context, Brother Muzzammin, he's from Boston in the United States. He has never traveled to an Arab country to learn the Arabic language and even so, he was able to learn the Arabic language. So I will show you guys the clips of 800 days ago when he first joined Anders Institute where he was at and what was his level and his level of confidence when speaking the Arabic language. And then I will show you where he is at right now. And then at the end of the video, I'm going to test him life. He doesn't know about this test. I'm going to test his understanding life by playing a video of a scholar speaking in Arabic and he is going to tell us what the scholar said. So let's get into it. In the previous video, we are in a weekly conversational session and the student only have access once he has completed six lessons. Meaning that before he gets into there, he has already a little bit of vocabulary to defend himself. However, it's the first time that he enters a place where he actually have to put that vocabulary into use. So here, Muzzammin was one of the first few times that he entered this weekly conversational session. So as you can hear, he was very uncomfortable. The atmosphere was a little bit awkward. He doesn't understand what's going on. I'm telling him, yeah, go ahead. And he's like, oh yeah, I'm just listening. I don't want to participate. I'm listening for this first one. Now let's see where he was at after he completed a few lessons and let's come back and comment on it. What he meant to say in the previous sentence is, And I asked Allah for him to help me. Now here we can see he's getting close to fluency. Now in Andres' Institute, we have a philosophy which is the three stages before fluency. The first stage is where you literally don't know how to say anything in Arabic other than scattered words. You know, Kitab, Bayt, this, that, it's all scattered. You don't know how to connect them. You don't know how to form sentences. The second stage is when you are able to form sentences like caveman speech, where you say, me, one, go, house, very tired, talk tomorrow to you. You understand what I'm trying to say, but it's very bad. The second stage as well is where when you don't know how to say something, you use your backup. You use your original language and you add from that language to complete the blanks that you don't know how to say in Arabic. That's the second stage. So here's at his second stage. Now let's look at his third stage towards Arabic fluency, which is when he is able to speak only in Arabic. He's able to communicate, to express feelings, to say what he has in mind and still make a few mistakes here and there, just as I am making mistakes while recording this video in English. And I'm pretty sure you guys caught on. However, I am able to communicate. I'm able to bring the cross, the point across. Let's look at. Ma'sha'Allah! Ma'sha'Allah! Allahumma Barik! Make sure you guys say Allahumma Barik. The last step now is testing Muzammil's understanding of the Arabic language. So I'm about to jump on a Zoom call with him. However, before we get into that, I just wanted to mention that if you guys are interested in learning the Arabic language through the same method that Muzammil has used, go ahead and click the link down below. And as well, I take advantage of this particular moment to tell you guys that YouTube is telling me that 83% of people who watch my videos are not subscribed. I just want to see that there is people out there who are actually interested in these videos related to the Fusha Arabic. So I keep making them. So go ahead, click subscribe if you are interested in learning the Arabic language. Click the bottom down below. Let's jump on this Zoom call with Muzammil and test him, where I actually have to test you. I have to test your understanding and everything. What I want to do is I want to share my screen. I'm going to share my screen. This video actually has subtitles, but I'm going to hide them so you cannot see them. And basically what I want you to give me is not a tarjama al-harfi, not like the literal word-by-word translation, but interpretation of what the sheikh is doing. Let's get into it and you tell me a few here. Just for the record, guys, what you see now, the screen that you see right now is what Muzammil was seeing at the time of the call. But once I press play, I am editing right now. I will put the video of the sheikh with the actual subtitles so you guys can compare in between what Muzammil is interpreting from what he hears from the sheikh and what the actual subtitles say. So just for the record, he doesn't see the subtitles, only you guys can see it. You heard that? Yeah, I can hear it. Yeah, they're good. Okay, so what did he say here? He said he wants to give a advice that I need off. Okay. What is that here? He said he's in need of knowledge to be firm in a language. Okay. What did he say here? The people who study Fikr, if you want to be among the people who understand Fikr one now, you have to be firm in every language. He's in need of knowledge to be firm in every language. Above average in knowledge to be above anything in Sharia. Why is he here? Can you play like I didn't hear two of the words he said. He said, you cannot be someone who is firm and strong when a religion, if you are not, I quaintly know you're not strong and firm in every language. You wouldn't find a person in life someone who was strong in a religion, he was strong in every language as well. The Quran and the Sunnah came with the Fasihah, the pure Arabic language. And obviously it is a much that you, for you to understand the religion, did he finish sentence yet? He said, you cannot understand the religion without the Arabic language. Say one more time, I didn't hear it. It's not possible for you to understand. Yes, so you cannot understand the religion without the Arabic language. No, come I am buggy. You are buggy as it should. This was quite technical, so if you get this, do you hear it? Give me one more playback, one more time so I can catch it. The audio, even the audio of these videos is a little bit... There's a lot of echo. This is the tabkhal? The tabkhal, don't be shy and embarrassed, right? It's not tabkhal, don't be shy. Now here in Mozambil, he makes two verbs that are very close to each other. One is khajilah, the other one is bakhilah. One means to be embarrassed, the other one means to be stingy. So he said, If you are able to do more than you can do, learn the language, if you are able to read all the books, then do it, don't expect this to be tabkhal. Don't stop, don't be stingy in how much you can learn every language, keep on going until you reach your limits, there's no limits. No, exactly. So alhamdulillah, and this was what I was trying to show because what I'm trying to... In the video, I'm talking about the three stages that I always talk about, Influency. The first stage is where you don't know how to speak anything of, you just know, like you just have scattered words. The second stage is where I showed in the video where you, when you was at the second stage, the third stage is right now. You are your third stage of fluency in the Arabic language, which means that sometimes you won't be able to understand something based on how it's been phrased to you, but if the person explains it to you in a different way in Arabic, you still understand. You see what I'm trying to say? So that's the third stage, and this is the stage right before native fluency. This is the stage right before native fluency because you are able to see it in front of a teacher that's only teaching solely using Arabic, and you are still able to go back and forth with him saying, oh, I didn't understand this. Can you explain it again? Okay, I explain it to you again in Arabic and you understand it. So whether because you didn't understand the word he used in the beginning, whether you didn't hear what he said, whether his way of speaking, he is just not giving you the full picture. He's speaking with a lot of metaphors and et cetera, et cetera. So yeah, Alhamdulillah, man, I'm so happy, so excited. The whole week, this past whole week, our team was like, we were all looking for your past videos. Oh, Sharon was in this too, huh? And we watched the video that you sent me on Instagram in Arabic, and we were like, oh, yeah, we got to make a video, masha'Allah. So yeah, man, I ask Allah to put barakah in your studies. Don't think, like now you just open the door basically. You just go inside and say, now you just open the door. You have the key, you put the key in, and you just open the door a little bit, make sure you, as the sheikh said, all you can do, just do so. So until here, you guys have the progress of Brother Muzzamil's Arabic journey. If you guys want to know about the method, go ahead and click the link down below, and you will find a 20-minute explanation of the method. Oh, and to see the real ones who watch until the end, I want you guys to comment something very specific, from zero to fluent in Arabic. So I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace and Alaykum.