5 reasons Why Most Arabic Learners will Never Speak Arabic.
Learning So Much Grammar at the start.
During the last 15 years of teaching the Arabic language, most of the students I taught had knowledge of the Arabic language for at least one or two years, but still could not speak Arabic, which surprised me the most, and when I researched their situations, I found they had one thing in common:
All of them followed the academic way of learning that focuses so much on learning grammar. In my opinion, this is the number one reason why most Arabic learners fail to speak or master Arabic.
When you start learning grammar, you think a lot every time you try to say something in Arabic, you want to say it perfectly and that’s why you end up saying nothing. I have a question for you: when you speak in your mother tongue, do you think of what you are saying? Of course not, you just speak intuitively! You can only achieve fluency when you stop thinking!
2. Having The Wrong Belief.
2. Another reason why you can’t speak Arabic is that you have a wrong belief. Whenever you tell someone that you are studying Arabic, they tell you that Arabic is one of the most difficult languages to learn, this belief will demotivate you and somewhat limit your ability to progress with the language. In my opinion, the Arabic language is not difficult to learn, you just need to know how to approach it and you will master it in 6 months using the right method and teacher.
3. Choosing Your First Arabic teacher
Choosing your first Arabic teacher can define how far you can go with learning Arabic. If you choose a teacher who focuses only on learning grammar, doing useless exercises and not paying attention to perfecting your pronunciation, this, in turn, will affect the rest of your progress in the future. Make sure you choose a teacher who encourages you to speak first, and who gives you a hands-on approach by paying attention to your Arabic pronunciation.
4. The Fear of Making Mistakes.
Many students have this belief in their heads. They want to avoid making mistakes because this will make them feel stupid in front of people, so they decide not to say anything. You shouldn’t be perfect at first! As you learn more, you can improve your speaking skills, but doing it early will prevent you from speaking, no matter how long you spend learning Arabic. Remember: perfection will never happen at first, perfection will only happen when you start moving forward.
5 . lack of consistency.
We all get very motivated when we start something new. For example, Arabic. We sign up for an Arabic course, buy 2 or 3 notebooks, and start spending an hour or two every day learning Arabic, maybe watching the Arabic soap opera, and after 2 or 3 months, we start to slow down. We are busy at work, we cancel our lessons at school, we stop making Arabic flashcards and start making excuses for not continuing studying Arabic, you will say: “because I don’t have time”, “. it is not a priority right now”, ” Arabic is so frustrating”. We allow our bloody circumstances to procrastinate and stop learning Arabic, then we give up for a while, and after 6 months, out of the blue, you hear a job offer that requires learning Arabic, so you decide to come back again and so on. If you start something, then you finish by the end. Otherwise, why start in the first place?
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