Arabic with Imran Lum

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: Iman is a Muslim artist, student, singer and songwriter. Iman lived across five countries while ...

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 second part will be in English (mostly) and we'll get some tips on how she learnt three languages...

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 debt capital markets, Islamic finance and international political economy. We initially connected discussing Islam...

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 and worksheets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

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/messageFor our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠HERE⁠! Follow us on Instagram: arabicwithimranlum and check out my other podcast Musl...

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 tips and how we're going to teach these intermediate lessons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaste...

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 For our free 6-Part series on basic Arabic to get you started, sign up to our E-mail list ⁠HERE⁠! Follow us on Instagram: arabicwithimranlum and check out my other podcast Muslim Money.

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-save link for her covers which will be released in September 7 inshallah: Check out her YouTube channel...

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 us a rating and please share with other Arabic learners. For our free 6-Part series on basic Arab...

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 favourite ayah or Hadith that much more special because the meaning hits different in its original ...

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 those of you who want that little bit extra, join our private Arabic Telegram Channel where I'll be sharing c...

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 offences in the courts. She's an Australian, Malay/Chinese, Muslim mum who loves getting lost in a good...

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 bit extra, join our private Arabic Telegram Channel where I'll be sharing clips, quizzes and a...

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arabicwithimran/messageFor our f...

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, I'm launching a new podcast series called Muslim Money, so please follow and stay tuned for the laun...