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Translation gets you the meaning. Arabic gets you the Book itself — the shade of a word, the weight of a construction, the reason a scholar read an āyah the way he did.
Most students arrive somewhere in the middle. The trial lesson finds out where, honestly, rather than flattering you into a level you cannot hold.
The letters in their four forms, how they join, and writing them by hand — which is what makes them stick. Two or three weeks for most adults.
You can write and sound out any Arabic word.
Vowelled text read aloud with increasing fluency, building a first vocabulary from the words the Qur’an uses most.
You can read vowelled Arabic and recognise several hundred words.
The grammar of the sentence: the three cases, the parts of speech, the governing words. Taught from the text students have started with for six centuries.
You can parse a simple sentence and say why each word carries its ending.
Verb forms and patterns, so an unfamiliar word can be traced to its root and understood rather than looked up.
You can derive the ten forms and read a dictionary entry properly.
The point everything has been building to: classical prose without ḥarakāt, supplying the endings yourself from the grammar.
You can read a page of classical Arabic and follow it.
Conversation in Modern Standard Arabic for students who want to use the language, not only read it. Egyptian dialect on request for students who want to speak with people, not just read books.
You can hold a conversation on everyday subjects.
The Madīnah books. The gentlest structured route in for a complete beginner, and entirely in Arabic from the first page.
The foundational grammar text. Short enough to memorise, deep enough that scholars have commented on it for centuries.
Grammar with worked examples and exercises — used alongside al-Ājurrūmiyyah for students who want more practice.
The next step in naḥw, for students going on to read classical works unaided.
Grammar taught without application is forgotten within the week. Every rule is used on a real sentence in the same hour it is learned.
You read out what you prepared. Mistakes here decide what the lesson spends its time on.
A single grammatical point, explained until it is clear — not four points half-explained.
You parse real sentences, mostly from the Qur’an, using the rule you just learned.
A short piece to prepare, written down, sized so you will actually do it.
The same rate for Arabic lessons as for everything else. No enrolment fee, no packages to buy up front — you pay for the hours you book.
Anything not answered here — send a WhatsApp message. A person replies, usually within a few hours.
With one hour a week and homework done, students usually follow simple āyāt within six to nine months and read comfortably in two years. Anyone promising it in weeks is selling you something.
It helps enormously and most students end up doing it, but it is not forced. What is not optional is doing the exercises.
The course is classical and Modern Standard Arabic, because that is what opens the Qur’an and the books. Egyptian dialect is available on request.
Yes — that is most of our students. The teacher works in English as much as needed at the start and reduces it steadily.
An app cannot tell you why your sentence is wrong. A teacher who reads your answer and explains the error is the entire difference.
Thirty minutes to find your real level and hear a plan for getting to the next one.
