All The Arabic You Never Learned The First Time Around
From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Written by James Price
A free Arabic grammar course
All The Arabic You Never Learned the First Time Around is a complete self-study course in Modern Standard Arabic grammar, written by James M. Price and used at the Defense Language Institute. It assumes you have already had some Arabic, roughly two years of university study or a DLI course, and explains clearly (and with humor) the grammar most courses rush past. Every chapter is free to read on this site.
Who is it for?
- Students coming back to Arabic after time away
- Military and government linguists, including DLI graduates keeping their skills sharp
- Intermediate students who still guess at case endings or freeze at hollow and defective verbs
How the book is organized
- Part I: Back to the Basics: the equational sentence, case endings, the idaafa, plurals, the dual and agreement.
- Part II: Verbally Speaking: the whole verb system, Forms I–X, weak verbs, moods, the passive, relative clauses and conditionals.
- Part III: reference chapters on little words, diptotes, numbers, the Hans Wehr dictionary, study advice, and complete verb charts.
Popular chapters
- The Idaafa
- Hollow Verbs, Form I
- The Particles أنّ، إنّ and أنْ
- The Comparative and Superlative
- Arabic Numbers
- Diptotes
Want the verb charts on paper? Download the complete Arabic verb charts free as a 74-page printable PDF.
