Reading Arabic With Harakat

[Sadie]

Manyverbs and nouns are build around a triconsonant system. That means the root will be three letters. There may be prefixes/ suffixes/ other letters as part of the verb tense, but the root is 3 letters. The letters get different forms and vowel patterns depending on verb tense and grammatical use. So if you see a certain grammatical structure, you will know the vowel pattern if you recognize that structure.

also, if you ever use a physical dictionary, you look things up by the root word. So you would have to have a certain level of grammar just to do that, and it is worth doing, in my opinion . (Though modern electronic dictionaries will tell you the root for you.)

in sum, you could probably pick up some of the grammar just by reading. Maybe learn words w vowels (or by audio) and soon after that switch to no vowels. But it might make it easier to review some grammar to see how it all makes sense. Of course, reinforcing and remembering these structures will come with practice and lots of input

Unfortunately it can be extremely hard to find books with vowel marks. But the good news is, I have compiled enough books for you here to practice your reading till you wont need the Harakat anymore. InshaAllah.

These 40 Hadith hand-picked by Imam Al-Nawawi are so popular and recommended for beginners and advanced students alike because they cover many basic concepts of our Deen across many sciences. Try to understand as well as memorize as many as you can from these Ahadith. Download here

These 3 books are by Sheikh Muhammed ibn Abdul Wahhab, on Aqeedah or Islamic Creed. These are important books to read when setting out to seek knowledge as they teach the most fundamental concepts of Tawheed very thoroughly. I recommend that you proceed in the order mentioned with these three books as the first two are very short and simple while Kitab al-Tawheed is a bit longer. It helps to listen to the explanations or recorded duroos of these books which you can find online.

A few months of hard work with these books should be enough for you to move on to reading without Tashkeel. Once you do, there is no turning back. There are more that 1000 years of books and wisdom waiting for you to explore.

I'm in the same boat. I think the only way to solve that is by building up your vocabulary. Once you know the words and the context then It's fairly simple to know how to pronounce them and which short vowels are used.

Even native Arabs have a hard time with that, even after graduating high school. I think learning the different "patterns" of the roots helps. I mean like mafool, ism makan, etc. Realistically you may never read Arabic perfectly when you encounter new words, but it'll get easier with practice. Do you have anyone you can practice reading in front of to correct you?

the problem is with reading... i have learned to write in a basic level, alhamdullah, but I need to improve that, (thats with and without vowels)... well, the reading is a bit hard because its not really the letters, actually, I know many of them, and if I look at the letters in a word, I recognize the most part, but I find it hard to, well like when you have to stick the letters together and spell them.. like, if theres a qaf and laam I know that that's qaflaam... but if the letters is like e.g إمام المهدي, I am not like "i can read that like i read english" so I am like "thats qaaf, and thats haaa, so thats qahaaaa, you know

Brother, you should really just focus on getting your reading with harakat up to a decent level, and then worry about reading without them. As you can already speak the language, it should come to you quite easily insha'Allah once you see the how the words are spelt.

1. You learn Arabic morphology and grammar (الصرف والنحو). Arabic morphology will help you with the Harakat on all letters of a word except the last one, while Arabic grammar will help you with the Harakat on the last letter of a word. Once you've memorized the rules, you should practice and practice and practice till you develop an ear for correct morphology (and if you are really good, you'll develop an ear for grammar too) where you can simply read the majority of Arabic words with the correct harakat without needing to recall any rules.

, فعل الماضي والمضارع والأمر, الفاعل, المفعول, المبتدأ والخبر, الأفعال الخمسة, الأسماء الخمسة, كان وإن وظن وأخواتهن

As for morphology, you don't learn any rules! You simply read thousands of lines of Arabic text which already have harakat (quran, poetry, literature etc...) until you develop an ear for Arabic morphology. If you sprinkle (a lesson or two lessons every few months!) some advanced grammar lessons and basic morphology lessons here and there, you will become very skilled.

I don't recommend step one unless you have a good amount of time dedicated to learning Arabic every day for, say, 2 to 3 years! The annoying thing about arabic grammar and morphology is the amount of rules/exceptions. Very boring and extremely easy to forget. So, if you are not dedicated, you will be simply learning and forgetting what you learned in a never-ending cycle without making any progress.

Step 2 on the other hand will be improving your vocabulary and pronunciation whilst developing your ear for correct harakat. You will probably forget the morphology lessons, but the basic 5-10 grammar rules that you repeatedly learn over and over should stick. The most important thing though in step 2 is: reading, reading and reading, and do it loudly with enunciation!

Also, Arabic is a language of meaning: Given a text without harakat, the meaning will tell you how to read the words. So, if you don't comprehend what the text is telling you, you won't be able to correctly read the words.

Lastly, don't set your expectations too high. Being proficient in Arabic is not something easily attained. I know a few dedicated people who have spent several years, close to 7, learning Arabic from professionals. They made a lot of progress and have improved their reading/writing/vocab, however, their skill level is still not beyond that of a high schooler. They sweat when reading a text with harakat and stutter when reading a text without harakat.

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