 في today's video i'll bring you five things i wish i knew before learning the arabic language so i hope that you guys enjoy this and if you want to know those five things stay until the end it's your brother mohammad the founder of endlessinstitute.com so throughout my years in life i have realized that there are certain things that you can learn from looking at other people's life and other people's failures and other people's mistakes this is why today i bring you guys five things that i wish i knew that i obviously got to know but only through the process of learning the arabic language and had to you know make my own mistakes and waste my little time doing these or doing that until i actually realized that was the thing that i was supposed to be doing from the very beginning so the first thing that i wish i knew before learning the arabic language is learning the arabic language and any other thing is not restricted by a place you know in this whole culture of seeking knowledge and in this whole culture of learning the arabic language and becoming more knowledgeable in our first few steps there is a good very good image that egypt has gained across the years about learning the arabic language because of their experience in teaching non-native arabes which obviously came as well throughout the year because you know the place was very easy to enter there was many businesses that saw the opportunity talking about arabic language centers and they started to open more and more and more so it was a very easy place for you to go learn arabic and get out so because of that many people they tend to delay the learning of the arabic language because they cannot go to egypt so it creates that mindset if i'm not in egypt i cannot learn the arabic language which is obviously false and is a very toxic thought to have because it would just delay your goals and that happened to me in the beginning but it happened in a different way i used to be in egypt and have those thoughts about medina but if i cannot get to medina then i won't do this then or i won't do this until i get an answer from medina university if they accepted me or not and it's kind of like just living your life based on waiting on people and it's just not healthy to have basically so that's the first thing the second thing that i wish i knew before learning the arabic language is sharp and massive memorization of vocabulary how important that is how important it is for you to focus the most energy put on it should be on vocabulary and grammar will come gradually as you learn more and more vocabulary i still preach and i still tell my students that's how we set our program arabic like an out of that you shouldn't learn arabic grammar unless you are able to understand a full lesson of arabic grammar only in arabic because yes it is possible and if you look at yourself you might be listening to these in english and you might not know english grammar and that's the case of most of us learns how to speak english or whatever language and they don't know about grammar they just pick it up they just pick up those ways on how do you know that after did if i use did the verb that comes after needs to be a present tense verb i did not eat you don't say i did not eat you might now have in mind yet because that's natural right that's second nature that's just known so you can actually get to that point as well in arabic where you get this native speaker sixth instinct where it's like no that doesn't sound right that doesn't sound arabic yeah that it just doesn't sound right like you can actually get to that level but it requires a lot of vocabulary and it requires like many people say in order for you to master a skill you need 10 000 hours put in that skill so you can get to that level and i started experiencing these after maybe two years where you start realizing like no this doesn't sound right until today i still test myself i would look at certain questions that i might be asked or certain questions that might pop to my head and find the answer you know do my own effort in answering that question and then i would ask my teacher why she told me arabic 10 years ago and you know i still all my questions go back to him and then he will give me the same answer that i had in mind and this builds confidence because now nine out of ten times that you're asking a question you already had that answer in your mind it obviously takes time to develop that instinct but you get there as well so yeah مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة أيضا like actually knowing that vocabulary like the back of your head before you know مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة مرحباة which is kind of like the same concept as memorizing the Quran you don't turn the page until you have memorized that and you are able to recite it from the top of your head the third point which brings me to this having mentioned my teacher and the one that i still go to and the one that i ask all the questions this third point is that the grass is not greener on the other side but it's greener where you water it and you will see these amongst many students many students they are in Egypt you know a friend of their roommate goes to another institute whatever it might be and you know one is in al ibanah the other one is al fajr institute the other one is anil and the other one is in lisan al arab and the other one is whatever they are and now they meet each other and they look at the other ones progress and they think that progress is being caused because of that institute or it might be the teacher so they keep jumping from teacher to teacher from مرقص to مرقص or from program to program from book to book looking for the greener grass and the grass is not greener on the other side is greener where you water it if you put the effort to make that work that thing that you are working on if you put the effort to make that work complete that book accept the flaws or the short comments of that teacher or whatever it might be and you go until the end of that program until you have anything else to learn from that teacher until that book is done until you have completed the program of that particular مرقص if you actually go through these process you will see that all methods really work some of them are faster and some of them are slower some of them are efficient some of them are less efficient but you will definitely benefit from all of those concepts and the point is to complete the thing like actually go through the process and you will see that you will definitely benefit and then jump into the next thing but don't just leave things in the middle of whatever you know thing you do in the book or the teacher or the program and then jump into another thing because once you go to the other thing now you start all over again and this brings me to the fourth point which is that to keep momentum is very important the momentum the momentum when learning the Arabic language I can't stress this enough on how important is to keep the momentum what I mean by this is that you are studying the Medina books for example you get to the third book and realize that the Medina books are taught for a specific type of students who are then going to go into the جامعة and in the جامعة they are going to have supplements to that particular book and even in the محاد they have supplements to that particular book so the way how they are teaching is not really how it's supposed to be taught but because it's the Medina books and it has the name and the social proof then everybody goes to the Medina books so you realize all of that in the middle of the book then you go ahead and jump to العربية ونهيدي because now you have heard this person say that in العربية ونهيدي on average you get 4000 to 5000 lexical items at the end of the eight series or eight books that's why many people they are able to speak more after the completing العربية ونهيدي than with the Medina books because the Medina books they mostly teach grammar and it's not that the Medina books have a deficiency but it's just that it's not taught how it's supposed to be taught in the university and you realize all of this stuff right that I'm not talking about it right now but just giving you facts and what you do instead of completing the program in my humble opinion yes العربية ونهيدي for the very beginner student is more efficient than the Medina books but however if you come to me and you tell me you are on book three of Medina book or book two I'll tell you okay complete that and then start the next thing why because you cannot break the momentum it's just like going to the gym or doing keto right the keto diet very known now very popular for the keto diet to be efficient you actually need to spend a certain amount of time things 20 days or about a month in that state of ketosis where you don't eat carbs and you're only eating fats etc in order for that diet to be efficient and in order for that amount of that period of time for you to start burning fat if you within that period of time those 20 days 30 days you break the momentum and eat carbs more than what you're supposed to be eating or whatever it might be you have now broken the momentum and it's almost like a speedometer the speedometer this is the beginning so speedometer when the car starts going starts accelerating goes like into a point if you stop accelerating then it goes back and now if you start accelerating it again you got to start from very bottom and yes the aftermath of you stopping is the car keep going but little by little that will go away so it's the same with learning Arabic and I hope that you guys get this example and this method for because it's so the same you start learning Arabic you start accelerating you get to a point you're like oh wait a minute this is not working that I think that works better and you go where you look for the grass where it's greener so you go there now the accelerator the needle starts to go down and yeah you start you keep moving because you have memorized some of that book etc so you have the aftermath and as they say in Arabic which is like a little water that or the little whatever at the last of a pot that is left that's and you get which you know you remember some of that particular book of that particular program but it's not there now if you keep that momentum and if you read the book if you memorize in the book or going through the book whatever you might be and go to the end of the book with the intention of completing that book efficiently and successfully memorize everything that is in that book understand every single subject once you get to the end you will see that yes maybe the book is not as efficient as that book but you have now benefited from that book you have now benefited from everything that book was offering and this brings me to my fifth point it's better to master one book than learn three wise men once said in the Arabic language now it's more beneficial for you to read one book than to read three new books and that's what i'm trying to say like it will be even more beneficial if you go through one book three times master that book and then jump into the next one to the point where you are even able to teach it to the point where you are even able to benefit your classmates to the point where you are able to be asked anything at any point about that book and be able to answer it it's more beneficial than you jumping from book to book and you have this list of like all of these books you want to go through and you are so in a rush to get to those books just to say i have gone through those books or whatever it might be but you don't realize that the person who have mastered الأجرومية and perhaps المتمم لأجرومية as well with it with a good explanation depending on the teacher that the book depends a lot on how it teaches it you don't realize that that person who has master that is going to be more efficient than you in understanding نحو obviously if you understand نحو you understand text etc as الامام الزهري سيد من طلب العلمة جملة ذهب عنه جملة إنما يطلب العلم على مر الأيام والليالي whoever tries to acquire العلم all at once you want to go through الأجرمية نمتمم على الفية نقطر ندائد this and that you want to accomplish all of these all at once without تدرج without gradually jumping from level to level okay i have mastered this level let me go to the next one without doing that it's going to go away from you all at once just like you are trying to acquire it all at once and then he says إنما يطلب العلم على مر الأيام والليالي but rather العلم is sought you know with the going of the days and nights meaning gradually like take your time with it it needs to be something that you apply in your life this is you now you're a seeker of knowledge you need to make your whole life about it otherwise it's going to be very hard to say oh i'm um this type of person i do these in my life or whatever i would just take one year off attain knowledge and then jump back into what i was doing that doesn't really happen you actually have to make it your main thing in your life and that's why ابن قداما المقدسي said و ينبغي لطالب العلم قطع العلاق الشاغلة و كان السلف يؤثرون العلم على كل شيء و كان السلف يؤثرون العلم على كل شيء now i mean the student of knowledge needs to cut the ties that you know distracts him and the self the predecessors they used to make العلم this seeking of knowledge the main thing the most preferable and beloved things to them and you know primary thing in the life it would be like yes you have responsibilities you have things to do in your life but as soon as you are done with your responsibilities working taking care of family the first thing that comes to your mind is you're seeking of knowledge that's a thing a thing i'm doing with with i think the thing the thing that you give preference in your life is and yeah guys i'm not trying to make this video long i'm enjoying this a lot this first video i am actually sending to different video editors because i'm trying to be more efficient in in recording content for you guys but to be honest with you the thing that pushes me back is the addition time and spending time on the laptop editing it just takes a lot of time so this video is going to be the first if you are seeing now these on my youtube channel it means that i have picked an editor so let me know what you guys think about that particular editor and let me know what you guys think about these five things that i wish i knew before starting to learn the Arabic language and tell me if you have benefit from those in the comments down below all right guys and let me know if you guys have other questions i will look at the questions on the previous video about things you have asked and i hope you guys benefited a lot i'm very excited to work with a video editor actually to put more content out there and yeah peace out i hope you guys 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