Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Foundations 2025
Dear Students,
As-Salamu 'alaykum and Marhaba! Welcome to our course "Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Foundations ".
This is the course page so please check here for any updates. You will find the class materials below. We will be adding free resources to help you in your Arabic reading journey.
The first live session is April 14th 2025 (Monday).
Please email us at contact@grammica.institute for any inquiries.
Class Materials:
Course Textbook: A New Arabic Grammar (Haywood/Nahmed)
Foundations Companion Textbook (coming soon)
The Pronoun Song - Beginner's Tip: Role of a pronoun (ضمير) after a verb or noun
Timings:
Classes are Monday and Thursday, 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM EST (New York Time) and conducted via Zoom.
Class Link:
Homework
CHAPTER / Page
1 The Arabic language. Orthography. Phonetics. Punctuation <We will not be covering Ch1 in class as it details how to read vocalized Arabic> 1
2 The Article. The Simple Nominal Sentence 22
3 Gender. The Feminine 27
4 Declension of Nouns. The Three Cases 33
5 Number. The Sound Masculine and Feminine
Plurals. Some Simple Verb Forms 40
6 The Broken Plural 50
7 The Broken Plural (continued)
8 The Genitive (‘Idāfa) 63
9 The Attached Pronouns 71
10 Demonstrative Pronouns 80