Basic Arabic Project

Basic Arabic: The list of Most Common Arabic Words with high Frequency of Use

English Language spoken in day to day life by most non-native speakers include basic English which does not have more than 3000 most common words. English Dictionaries also use these common words to describe all main entries and later on when people get constant drill with these common words, English seem easy. The same concept can work for Arabic and we have to focus on learning and drill of Basic Arabic words in our life and you will feel that we can also use Basic Arabic quite effectively in our life. At present, this list is yet to be developed with the help of Native Arabic Speakers.

Basic Arabic

 Example of the word 'able' from the list of 850 English words representing Basic English.

2. Able = qadir

إنَ الله على كُلِ شيءٍ قَدير

Innallah ala kuli sayin qadir

Allah is on all things able. (powerful)

انا قادر على ان اتحدث الانجليزية بطلاقة

ana qadir ala an atahadathu al-engliziah betalaqah

I am able to speak English

أنا قَادِرٌ على فِعلُ هَذا

Ana qadir ala fi3lu haza.

I am able to do this.

Here the word fi3lu has to be fiali as word ala is preposition (harfu jar)

A care has to be taken that example which are provided should also use the words from this list only so that learner is not forced to use dictionary to see meaning of other words while understanding one thing at a time.

Basic English Word List to be converted to Basic Arabic.

The list can be found here:

http://www.langmaker.com/wordlist/basiclex.htm