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Arabic — ABY Book 2 Part 1 العربية

Exam: Sem 2 · date TBD · العربية بين يديك Book 2 Part 1 — vocabulary, dialogues and grammar, unit by unit as classes happen.

● Ongoing — 20 lessons · 19 classes + 1 from the book · new lessons land as classes happen

Semester 2 moves to العربية بين يديك Book 2 Part 1 — the first 8 of its 16 units this semester. Each unit brings a dialogue or reading passage, its vocabulary, and the grammar the Sheikhs draw out of it. Lessons here land class by class: a lesson covers exactly what its lecture taught, no further — so an incomplete unit means the rest is coming next class.

About this course

L07–L09 are all one teaching day — the residential programme of 2026-08-01, recorded in three parts — and the recording between L08 and L09 has a gap: L09 opens inside a الفاعِل drill whose introduction was never recorded, so that topic is not taught anywhere in these lessons.

Lesson ↔ video map: L01 ← v45 (Sheikh Riyas); L02 ← v46 (Sheikh Riyas); L03 ← v47 (Sheikh Riyas); L04 ← v48 (Sheikh Riyas); L05 ← v49 (Sheikh Riyas); L06 ← v50 (Sheikh Riyas); L07 ← v51 (Sheikh Riyas, residential programme); L08 ← v52 (Sheikh Riyas, residential programme); L09 ← v53 (Sheikh Riyas, residential programme); L10 ← no recording — built from the textbook (p. ٤٥); L11 ← v56, L12 ← v54, L13 ← v55, L14 ← v57, L15 ← v58, L16 ← v59, L17 ← v60, L18 ← v61, L19 ← v62 and L20 ← v63 — none of these ten recordings names its lecturer. L16 is two-source: the recording lost four drill items, and the textbook (Unit 4, lesson 40) supplied them.

L11 has been rebuilt from its class recording. It was first published from the printed book alone, because the class was believed unrecorded; the recording (2026-08-17) reached us afterwards, so the lesson now stands on what was actually taught — the whole of the printed dialogue and a good deal more. Its number and address are unchanged, so progress on it is unaffected, and the grammar of the printed page that the class did not cover is kept in a marked section at the end of its notes.

L10 was not recorded. It was one of the classes after the residential day lost to a Zoom subscription lapse, now fixed but with no way to recover the session, so it is built from the printed book (p. ٤٥) and carries a BOOK chip in the list above. It gives the book's own material and not the lecturer's emphasis or his exam pointers — read it as the text, not as the class.

▶ Resume where you left off
    Unit 1 — العناية بالصحة (Care of Health)
    Fī l-ʿasali shifāʾ — the honey-cure dialogue
    Unit 1 opener · the ʿĀmir & Ḥāzim dialogue · health vocab · verbs with fixed prepositions (ʿuniya bi-, shaʿara bi-, ishtakā min) · lam, shufiya, baʿda an.
    ~40 min
    Ḥurūf al-jarr — the prepositions
    Unit 1 grammar · alif vs hamzah · ism/fiʿl/ḥarf · ḥurūf al-mabānī vs al-maʿānī · Sībawayh's ~20 ḥurūf al-jarr (min, fī, ilā, ʿalā, ʿan, bi, li) · the majrūr/kasrah rule · the many senses of min · the Zaynab & Maryam diet dialogue.
    ~40 min
    Negation particles + the doctor–patient dialogue
    Unit 1 grammar · negating the present verb · mā/lā/lam/lan and the mood each takes · lā an-nāfiyah (Maryam/Zaynab) · ʿinda · the doctor–patient ḥiwār (ḍaghṭ, sukkar, ḥimyah) vocab.
    ~40 min
    Unit 1 — العِنَايَةُ بِالصِّحَّةِ (Care of Health)
    The verb's three tenses + the health reading passage
    Unit 1 · al-māḍī / al-muḍāriʿ / al-mustaqbal · سَـ and سَوْفَ · the time-words amsi, al-ān, ghadan that pick the tense · the reading passage الصِّحَّةُ بَيْنَ المَاضِي وَالحَاضِرِ with its vocabulary · Qurʾān 7:31 and the one-third ḥadīth.
    ~45 min
    Book 2 Unit 1 — العناية بالصحة (Care of Health)
    Aqsām al-kalimah + guided expression
    Unit 1 grammar notes · the word's three kinds اسم / فعل / حرف with their diagnostic signs · classifying the unit's sentences · the scrambled-word drill and the picture composition.
    ~45 min
    Unit 2
    Adawāt al-istifhām — the eleven interrogatives
    Unit 2 grammar · the eleven question-words — hal vs the hamzah, ayy as muḍāf, kam, ayna/matā/kayfa, man vs mā, mādhā, limādhā · and the unit's three exercises.
    ~40 min
    Residential day (2026-08-01) — عِلْم الصَّرْف
    ʿIlm aṣ-ṣarf — the eight verb types and the sound verb kataba
    What ṣarf studies, the ṣaḥīḥ/muʿtall split and the eight verb types · كَتَبَ through al-māḍī, al-muḍāriʿ, al-mustaqbal and al-amr · the p.78 text مُعَلِّم السِّبَاحَة.
    ~55 min
    The amr of the mahmūz and muḍāʿaf verb, the p.83 drills, and William Tell
    The amr of the mahmūz (كُلْ / خُذْ) and of the muḍāʿaf (مَدَّ – يَمُدُّ – مُدَّ) · the page-83 imperative drills · the passage وِلْيَام تِل.
    ~127 min
    Finishing al-fāʿil, the ḥiwār «كَيْفَ نَقْضِي العُطْلَةَ؟», an-nidāʾ, and the camping passage
    The fāʿil is always مَرْفُوع · the ḥiwār كَيْفَ نَقْضِي العُطْلَةَ؟ · النِّداء and the مُضاف مُنادَى · the reading passage التَّخْيِيم.
    ~89 min
    اخْتَبِرْ نَفْسَكَ ١ — the Units 1–2 review (p. ٤٥)
    The Fāṭimah passage — study, work, and the hospital BOOK
    The reading passage on p. ٤٥ inside اخْتَبِرْ نَفْسَكَ ١, revisiting Unit 1's health vocabulary and Unit 2's question-words in one continuous text.
    ~35 min
    The unit opener after the Units 1–2 review (p. ٥٠) — عَلَيْكَ بِذاتِ الدِّينِ
    ʿAlayka bi-dhāti d-dīn — the marriage dialogue, and عَلَيْكَ بِـ · ذو / ذات · غَيْر · لا النّافِية
    The lesson opens the married-life unit from two words — المَوْت / الحَياة and الزَّوْج.
    ~45 min
    New unit — هَلْ تَحْدُثُ مُشْكِلاتٌ بَيْنَ الزَّوْجَيْنِ؟
    Hal taḥduthu mushkilātun bayna z-zawjayn — the dual, and the unit on married life
    The new unit of Book 2 Part 1, taken title-first — the dual (المُثَنَّى), its shift to yāʾ+nūn after a preposition or in naṣb, and why the title reads بَيْنَ الزَّوْجَيْنِ.
    ~45 min
    Grammar — الجُمْلة الاسْمِيّة vs الجُمْلة الفِعْلِيّة · new dialogue — السَّهَرُ خارِجَ البَيْتِ
    Al-jumlah al-ismiyyah wa-l-fiʿliyyah — the two kinds of sentence, and the dialogue on staying out late
    The single question you ask of any Arabic sentence: what word does it start with? — جُمْلة اسْمِيّة against جُمْلة فِعْلِيّة, and شِبْه الجُمْلة, which is neither.
    ~45 min
    Reading passage — الأُسْرَةُ بَيْنَ المَاضِي وَالحَاضِرِ
    Al-usrah bayna l-māḍī wa-l-ḥāḍir — the family then and now, its three differences, and the two comprehension exercises
    The unit's reading passage, taken in three paragraphs and glossed phrase by phrase, after a spoken Arabic warm-up on the printed discussion questions.
    ~45 min
    Grammar — الضَّمَائِرُ المُنْفَصِلَةُ, and عَلَامَاتُ التَّرْقِيمِ
    Aḍ-ḍamāʾir al-munfaṣilah wa ʿalāmāt at-tarqīm — the separate pronouns in full, the three drills, and the punctuation marks
    A grammar (qawāʿid) lesson, not a passage: material you have already met unsystematically, now taken in order.
    ~45 min
    Unit 4 — الحَيَاةُ فِي المَدِينَة
    Al-Ḥayāh bayna l-qaryah wa-l-madīnah — Unit 4 opens: the village-or-capital ḥiwār, its vocabulary, and four drills
    Unit 4 opens with a husband-and-wife ḥiwār about leaving the village for the capital — its full text, its vocabulary, the grammar it teaches, and the unit's four drills with every item.
    ~45 min
    Ḥurūf al-ʿaṭf and Limādhā yufaḍḍilu baʿḍu n-nās al-ḥayāh fī l-mudun al-kabīrah — the four conjunctions, and the big-city reading passage
    The four joining particles وَ · فَ · ثُمَّ · أَوْ and the eleven-item drill on them, then the reading passage on why people prefer big cities, read and glossed paragraph by paragraph.
    ~45 min
    Aṭ-Ṭarīq ilā l-jāmiʿah — the road to the university: giving directions in Arabic
    The unit's second ḥiwār — a driver asks a traffic man the way to the university — with the words for giving directions, the compass points, and the two comprehension drills.
    ~35 min
    Min mudun al-ʿālam al-kubrā — Tokyo, Cairo and New York: reading about the world's great cities
    A reading passage on three of the world's great cities — Tokyo, Cairo and New York — glossed word by word, with three uses of مِنْ and the comprehension and vocabulary drills.
    ~55 min
    اخْتَبِرْ نَفْسَكَ ٢ — the Units 3–4 review (pp. ٩٢–٩٣)
    Ikhtabir nafsak 2 (Units 3–4) — the reading test: the working wife, and the problems of big cities (part 1) NEW
    Part 1 of the Units 3–4 self-test: a husband's account of his working wife and its ten questions answered from the text, then a short passage on the problems of big cities and question 11.
    ~40 min