Linguistic/Grammatical Features

• Rarer grammar points
  • Forms 11-15 of Arabic Verbs
  • Emphatic form of verbs
• Focusing on Makharij and Tajweed
  • To improve your accent in Fusha

Cultural

• If you are not religious or did not learn Arabic for religious purposes, familiarize yourself by reading the Qur’an, or reading an Arabic version of the Bible may be useful as well
  • Hijri Calendar
  • Reading hadiths can also be beneficial + a good challenge
• Reading 1001 Nights and other classic works
• Learn more about indigenous groups in the Arab World - Druze, Amazigh, Copts, etc.
• Diving into Arabic poetry
  • Al-Mutanabbi, pre-Islamic poetry, etc.

  • Learn about poetic forms

Miscellaneous

• Al Kitaab Part 3 - A textbook for advanced learners that provides a wide range of difficult texts on topics concerning the Arab World. Provides explanations of rarer grammatical concepts as well. Useful to read over, especially to mine the various texts and poems that they have in the text
• School textbooks from Arab countries - a good way to get exposed to the culture, especially as many textbooks may feature ayats from the Qur’an, or expose you to the structure and vocabulary of Classical Arabic poetry
• Learn more dialects - broaden your scope; native speakers can frequently understand other dialects as well, and can semi-codeswitch/adapt to whoever they are speaking to if they have issues in communication
• For North Africa + Lebanon - familiarize yourself with French; at least a basis of French (up to stage 2B) will be very useful in order to understand the societies in these Arabic countries; Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, for example, all still use a model of the French education system