Alhamdulillah, I feel very happy to have completed A1. There was a lot of vocabulary that wasn’t very easy to memorize, but the book Al-Tuhfah Al-Azhariyyah is organized in such a way that words from previous chapters are repeatedly reinforced in the new chapters. As a result, it became much easier to memorize all their meanings.
Moreover, the teacher’s method of instruction is very beneficial. He would provide detailed explanations and analysis of each word—such as its origin, its possible multiple meanings—and used slides and images to teach us in different ways, so that we could grasp the lessons during the class itself.
One concept of the teacher that I especially liked is this: rather than focusing on how well we perform in exams, he places more importance on how much Arabic we are actually able to use in real life.
I pray to Allah to grant us the ability to stay until the end of the course. I also pray for the progress of the institute.
