sinaat-ulkalam is a project to devise an academic program that develops and builds up the student’s ability to write, read and hear any idea in a correct Arabic language in no time, depending on the methodology of links described in Al-Shadi Saud Al Harkan’s Links.
The practical objective of the project is to devise an academic program that is divided into three levels: each level has three books: student’s book, teacher’s guide and a glossary.
The following properties are the core of the program:
A language, any language, is a life experience and a gradual accumulation of knowledge and not a quantity of vocabulary and grammar rules that are memorized.
Developing language abilities and the skills of controlling expressive ideas requires the development of cerebral (cerebrum as a tool) and mental (brain) abilities as special operational abilities. As a result, anyone who does not have an idea in his mind would not be able to express anything.
Developing cerebral/mental abilities, which is a two-way approach and a vital reaction between the student and his environment. In other words, the abilities of the student to develop language skills are proportional with the depth of his life experience.
Our life experience today has become a globalized one, in every sense of the word, all over world. An experience through which the student, wherever he is, shall receive knowledge with tools that appeal to and address his senses more than his brain (we have heard, for example, some one describing the MAC icons as so delicious that would make the user feel the desire to devour them and not only press on them with a cursor to move into another window in the dead machine).
Now, my dear reader, imagine a curriculum or methodology to teach Arabic that begins with neither who did this action nor with the man ploughed the land. Some of us would not differentiate between the subject and the verb. Neither had he seen a plot of land being ploughed before. Instead, imagine a methodology that opens fictitious, meaningful and interesting theater that shows you how to construct the right expressions to describe your feelings without letting you experience the dilemmas of dry and dull intellectual education.
As we mentioned earlier, the curriculum comprises of three levels. Each one of these levels aims at developing specific mental and expressive skills in the student. By the end of this level, for instance, the student is expected to comprehend at least one thousand five hundred new vocabulary entries (root words and derivatives) and to be able to use the same in writing, reading and listening and to understand the modes of linking among them with a tolerance/error rate of five percent the maximum.
The project considers any human being, regardless of his race, color or religion, able to comprehend and use Arabic a sound and clear means of communication if a reasonable evolution scale is drawn up, not only in learning its rules, but also in learning the culture such rules are derived from.
The project respects religions and beliefs. It is also built on renouncing racism and beliefs that discriminate among races.
Peace, brotherhood, and the propagation of good, justice and love are the most sublime targets of sound language communication.
In its initial form, the curriculum is intended and dedicated to the native speakers of Arabic. It, however, could be employed and developed later to assist learners of Arabic as a foreign language to overcome the odds of thinking in Arabic.
In his book, Links, Al-Shadi Saud Al Harkan has drawn up the fundamentals of the Art (Industry) of Speech and a blueprint of the project. Today, we have high hopes in this project and we supplicate God for success. We also plea those who are interested to assist us as far as possible so that we could make our hopes – in executing the project within the detailed timeline hereinafter – come true:
December 2007 The Links
December 2008 Sinaat-ulkalam – Level One
July 2009 Sinaat-ulkalam – Level Two
December 2009 Sinaat-ulkalam – Level Three
The concept of “Links”, “Sinaat-ulkalam” and “Standard Arabic”, and all the associated intellectual rights are the sole property of Al-Shadi Saud Al Harkan. These rights are registered with many international specialized organizations under his name. No citing or use of any of the aforementioned names is permitted unless a written permission thereof is given by Al-Shadi Saud Al Harkan. Any infringement of these rights shall be prosecuted.
Mr. Houssam Al-Attar, owner of Dar Al-Awthab for Publishing & Distribution (Al-Awthab Publishing and Distribution House) is the sole supporter of the project in its current form. He gratefully funded the project’s stand in Cairo International Book Fair from January 23, 2008 to February 4, 2008. On the moral level, however, a lot of brothers have participated in supporting the project, whether during the preparation of the book or during the preparation of the residue of the associated events.
Dar Al-Awthab for Publishing & Distribution (Al-Awthab Publishing and Distribution House) of Jeddah, KSA is the sole representative of the project.
Should you like to participate in this project or any other project relevant to the same, you are welcome to visit our stand in Germany Serai (B) at Cairo International Book Fair, or call us on the following number:
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