Why Many Arabic Online Courses Fail

Arabic, among other languages, is a fairly complex language. Here`s an example which I have come across in my teaching experience which indicates the complexity to an extent:

In English, to make a word transitive to an additional subject, in most cases one would have a standard word/s addition to achieve this. Example, `The man owned a car", if made transitive to an additional subject would be, for example, "The man made so-and-so an owner of the car". Therefore, the structure, "Made a/an...." is used, which could apply to many cases of verbs. Now in Arabic, the root letter (for example, "own") would have to be brought on a new scale by addition to the root verb, and thus, a single word has the meaning of an entire phrase. It is a well known fact that the more meaning a word contains, this indicates more complexity. Similarly, the addition of a female and a dual form make this language more complex than English.

Therefore, it is important that the student has deep insight into the subject matter, which requires personal attention of the tutor and an interactive approach, rather than prerecorded lessons. I do not approve of crash courses in Arabic, or a cursory understanding as being sufficient for understanding classical works, as well as many modern works of Arabic literature.