Arabic with Imran Lum

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! This is an introduction to a three-part series on Islam and Trade in the Malay Archipelago with my other podcast: Muslim Money with Dr Imran Lum Before we can understand how Islam spread through Southeast Asia, we first need to understand the people who inhabited the region long before its arrival — the Austronesians. In the first...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! This episode begins a three-part series on Islam and trade in the Malay Archipelago. Before we can understand how Islam spread through Southeast Asia, we first need to understand the people who inhabited the region long before its arrival — the Austronesians. In the first episode, Anisa and I talk about how these remarkable seafar...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! This has got to be one of my favourite episodes, because I got to chat with my beautiful mum Dr Rokkiah Tawi about her lifelong passion for learning Arabic. Like a true Asian mum, she forced me to learn Arabic, until I loved it. In this episode, we’ll hear about how as a little kid, she used to defy ‘shoot to kill’ curfew orders d...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! My sis Melati and her husband recently came back from studying Arabic in Rabat,  Morocco at the Mimbar Institute . She shares her experience in Arabic!  #Arabic #learnarabic #arabiclanguage 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!  F...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! I recently did an with SBS Arabic on how I learnt Arabic. Keep listening after the interview, because we will be picking out some words and phrases that you can use in your day-to-day conversation.  Here is the link to the full interview.  #Arabic #learnarabic #arabiclanguage Support the show For our free 6-Part series on basic Ar...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Check out our latest beginners episode on words related to going to a restaurant. صحتين / Sa7tain "Two healths for you!" #Arabic #Arabiclanguage #learnarabic 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:...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Shaher moved to Dubai 7 years ago. A thriving career and a couple of kids later, it doesn’t look like he’s coming back any time soon. Shaher talks about his experience living there with his young family. If you’re thinking of moving to Dubai, this episode is for you.  This episode is mostly in Arabic, but stick around until the en...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! As part of a charity auction I owed the phenomenonal singer Kulsoom 3 Arabic classes and it took us 3 years to complete! In this lesson we practise the past tense and demonstrate that it doesn't take much to learn some sentences, even if you average 1 lesson a year!  Check out Kulsoom's amazing songs, here is her pre-sav...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this episode we speak to Omar who I randomly met at a protest. We have a chat about if anyone actually speaks formal Arabic in the Arab world. Should you learn formal Arabic? Or dialect? 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!  F...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Shaakumaaku?! In this episode we talk with my mate Haidar someone who encompasses the whole Middle East! We talk about the beautiful diversity of Iraq, civilisation, Iraq under Saddam, languages and end with a few essential Iraqi phrases. Although this is an intermediate episode, stick around until the end and learn some interesti...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this episode we speak to the proud Palestinian and the 2021 Young South Australian of the Year Layan Saadeh. Born in Saudi arabia, Layan moved to Australia at the age of ten in 2014. She shares her unique experiences of immersing herself into Surf Lifesaving and Aussie rules footy as young Palestinian Muslim woman. We’ve crosse...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! This episode is on the ism at-tafDeel (اسم تفضيل) which is part of Sarf. The best way to think about it is how to say something is better than something else. Or how to say good, better, best. We’ve just crossed 300k downloads so a massive shukran jazeelan to all the listeners. If you’re enjoying them, please don’t forget to give...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In today’s Ep, we chat to the superstar singer/songwriter and activist Iman Farrar! We discuss how she learnt Arabic, what it’s like studying at Oxford University then for the Malay speakers we switch to Bahasa Melayu and talk about growing up in a multilingual household and learn or I attempt to learn some Kelantanese. Biography:...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Every Ramadan in Arabic class, we get students to come up with their favourite ayaat (verses) of the Quran or Hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad saw) and we translate it and try to memorise it. The key lesson here is with basic rudimentary Arabic, you’re able to break down the ayah or Hadith word for word and it makes your fa...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! What are your hobbies? It sounds like a question you'd ask when reviewing someone's biodata for marriage. I've never heard this question in a conversation and I've never used it. That said, there are some interesting vocab that you can learn from saying what your hobbies are.  So, what are your hobbies?  For th...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this episode my sister Melati and I practise our sketchy Malay and at the same time learn how to say some phrases in Arabic on what Melati studied and where she worked. For non-Malay speakers skip to 7mins and 30secs for a short lesson. Melati Lum has a background in criminal law having prosecuted a wide range of serious offenc...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Join us again with the amazing Nejra, a writer and PhD Candidate at Monash University, specialising in poetry, philosophy, and Islamic intellectual history. In this episode we get some tips on how she learned three languages at the same time; French, Arabic and Bosnian so join us for that!  For those of you who want that little bi...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! Join us with the amazing Nejra, a writer and PhD Candidate at Monash University, specialising in poetry, philosophy, and Islamic intellectual history. In this chat, recorded in August 2022, we discuss our family origins, mutual love of languages and her journey into learning Arabic. This is the first part of our conversation, the...

Would love to hear your thoughts on the podcast, send us a message! In this episode, Mals joins us to chat about clothes in Arabic and how to ask for different clothes at a shop. If you like the podcast, please hit us up with a rating and comment. Don't forget to share it with other Arabic learners!   Check out my Instagram page @arabicwithimranlum and my new podcast series Muslim Money . ---...

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...