Answering the most common questions about learning Arabic

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  Today, I have a special guest.

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  I have been trying to learn Arabic for a long time, going back five, six years, dabbled in Egyptian Arabic.

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  Levantine Arabic.

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  But recently I've been working on Levantine Arabic with my tutor.

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  So, Hasan, I would like to you to introduce yourself.

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  And what 's interesting about Hasan is that he is very much an adherent of the principle

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  of learning through comprehensible input.

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  And maybe you can tell us a little bit about your experience with comprehensible input and the motivation

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  behind you setting up your own website for teaching Arabic through comprehensible input.

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  Hi steve thanks for having me my name is hassan al-hamwi i'm a native speaker from a native arabic speaker from syria

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  i learned english when i was an adult the hard way and many years later i moved to montreal to in to quebec in canada

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  and recalling the trauma of language learning, traditional language learning, I resisted learning French,

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  something I feel very sad about so i'm not a natural by any means for many years i found i thought about language

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  learning as something very very difficult yeah something that should be avoided at all costs unless you really need it however

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  that idea changed after a few trips to mexico i was i got so interested in and learning spanish so i decided decided to,

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  you know, like search and see if there 's been something new and like a way to connect with the people.

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  That was my motive.

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  And yeah, I came across comprehensible input by accident.

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  And the idea of comprehensible input, for me,

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  the word is as mouthful as jargon, but the idea is very simple, is that we humans acquire language.

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