Arabic with Imran Lum

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this episode, we chat to our friend Chantelle who also teaches us a little Spanish. For the non-Spanish speakers, just skip ahead and I'll break down some direction phrases discussed. If you like the podcast please share it with other Arabic learners and check out my Instagram page @arabicwithimranlum ma3a as-salaama! Also...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Salams and ahlan! Apologies it has been ages since I've posted a new episode. I've been working on a new podcast series called Muslim Money which I'll be launching soon. In one of the episodes, I chat with the phenomenal Hassan Jivraj who is a London-based Financial journalist primarily focusing on Middle Eastern de...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! One of the beautiful things about Arabic and Arab culture is that when you meet someone you don't just say 'Hi'. You want to know everything about them and what's going on in their life. You want to know about their health, their family, their parents, their kids, their work etc. In this lesson Shaher will be t...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Given Eid is in a couple of days, in this lesson we have a chat with my mother in law Silma Ihram and learn some phrases that you can use when you visit people or have people over. Here is a link to Silma's documentary Silma's School . If you like the podcasts check our my website Arabic with Imran which has more free co...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! I hope you all are enjoying Ramadan. In this beginners lesson I chat to my sister Melati Lum and we will be going through some sentences using the verb اكل or He Ate in the past tense. Melati is releasing her third book in the Ayesha Dean series called Ayesha Dean: The Lisbon Lawbreaker. Melati is a writer with a background in cri...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this podcast we chat our friend Jean and fellow Co-Founder of Markaz in the beautiful city of Queenstown, NZ to learn how to conjugate the verb رجع.  I hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70 instructional videos and 140 pa...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! As Ramadan is fast approaching, in this podcast we chat to my Saudi bro Bahi from Makkah and learn some phrases we can use in Ramadan with our friends and family. Try them out this Ramadan and don't forget to keep us in your prayers!  Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this podcast we chat again to our friend Faruq and step through some past tense sentences. Remember to practise as if you're part of the conversation.  Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students with over 70 instructional videos and 140 pages of worksheets. If you have any feedback or i...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this podcast we chat to a friend of mine Kamal about his life and and how he ended up in Australia. We talk about the different languages and cultures of Algeria. After the lesson, Anisa and I step through a few words and phrases. Check out my website arabicwithimranlum.com a free resource for Arabic students for more  videos a...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Check out our second intermediate lesson with our teacher Shaykh Abdurrahman Mawar. Don't forget to sign up to our website for free  and like our IG page ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson, we chat with our student Yusra and go over some past tense sentences.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠ HERE ⁠! Support the show HERE!  Follow us o...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Vary rarely do you meet an old friend and just say hi, how are you. In Arabic, you'd ask how their parents are, their kids, their spouse, work, life, health among many other things. In this intermediate lesson, we're going to go through these phrases. Before we start the interview, Anisa and I will be going through some...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Check out my Arabic Podcast Lesson with the phenomenal brother Barry Danielian who is a retired former trumpet player for Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. He has toured and performed with many of the biggest names in the music industry, including Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, and James Taylor. He was one...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson, we mix it up with our Arabic student Faruq. We're still focusing on the past tense verbs and developing basic sentences around them. Today we go through a day in the life of the great man himself Faruq; how he went to work, ate a banana with colleagues and of course going to Arabic class, exciting stuff! We al...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! We did this lesson at like 11:30pm after all the kids finally went to sleep so apologies if it sounds like we’re going to sleep ourselves! In today's lesson Anisa will be taking you through the demonstrative pronouns or asmaa2 ul-isharah (أسماء الإشارة). You'll learn how to say 'This is a...' to masculine and f...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson we’re going to learn the definite and indefinite construction with our main man Mawlana Abdurrahman. He is going to teach us how to pronounce words starting with the Sun and Moon letters.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson we expand on the verb ذهب / he went. We learn some sentences around the verb in the past tense with Nawal.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠ HERE ⁠! S...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson we chat to Anisa about her journey learning the Arabic language and she talks about the importance of finding someone that you are comfortable speaking Arabic with. Finally, I chat to our student and good mate Inty from Inty Chiropractic where she helps us practise conjugate the verb  ذهب / he went in the past tense...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson, Anisa and I talk about the importance of finding the جذر or the Arabic trilateral root in words and we chat to our student Faruq on conjugating the verb فعل or he went in the past tense. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Zoe is one of our buddies that is going to help us go through some basic Arabic pronouns. She has an interesting Arabic connection, her ‘jeddu’ was from Lebanon and migrated to Australia in the 1950s. Try to memorise all of the pronouns because we're going to keep referring to them throughout our lessons. --- Send in a voice...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson we go through how to pronounce Arabic letters correctly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠ HERE ⁠! Support the show HERE!  Follow us on Instagram: ar...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this Arabic lesson we go though some more basic phrases.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠ HERE ⁠! Support the show HERE!  Follow us on Instagram: arabicwithimran...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! This lesson is a little bit random, we got through basic Arabic introductions but in French with our friend Madina. Please excuse my dodgy French! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @arabicwithimranlum --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our fre...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson, Anisa and I go through how to say 'How are you?'  in Arabic and I have a chat to my friends Kareem and Shams from Chicago. Formal Arabic is often very different from colloquial Arabic so in this podcast we go through some of the regional differences. We'd love to hear your comments and remember to tr...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this lesson, we introduce ourselves and go through some essential words.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/message Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠ HERE ⁠! Support the show HERE!  Follow us on Instagram:...