The place to begin is your intention and your motivation. I tell my students all the time. The first thing you are going to need when you study the Arabic language is motivation and the first thing you are going to lose when you studying Arabic the language is also motivation.
So keep in mind that you are doing this for a really nobel cause. The best motivation you can remind of your self over and over again and you will never on dry are the words of Allah Himself. "We made the Quran easy already. No doubt about it for the purpose of remembrance" Allah says He made it easy.
If that is not a motivetion for a believer I don't know what it is. So keep that as your first point , your starting point by which you continue. This is the firs thing, your intention.
The second thing, focus on the Arabic of the Quran. Instead of focusing on conversation of Arabic from the beginning, which may or may not be a sourec of motivation for you. If you learn the Arabic of the Quran, and you focus on it, its something that you can keep up with easily and something that you see results in immediately when you start reading the Fatihah or Al-Baqarah or something like that because you are able to applied very quickly even on your own. InsyaAllah.
So, start with regular reading the Quran. And study the grammar and the vocabulary applied to the Quran itself.
Here you need to take some consideration. Take some things into consideration rather. The first of them is your time restriction. You have a full-time job. You are a student. You are busy with family. You are busy with many things. To effectively keep up with Arabic studies, dont forces your self into a full time type schedule. Give your self a part time schedule. Ten to fifteen minutes or half an hour a day, an hour every two days. Something like that, something light on you. Something you can keep up with that you can use to continue.
After you have this time problem solved, that you dedicated some times to this study, the second issue you have to consider your self with is the curriculum. More important than the teacher even. I say this because you can have a great teacher but a terrible curriculum, and the results wont be that good because the curriculum doesn't go far enough.
And you can have an OK teacher, not that good of a teacher. But a fantastic curiculum and you will still see significantly a better result. So concern yourselves with a good curriculum and applied it at a given place, the thing that you have to consider for yourselves when you want to continue effectively is measured growth.
Don't think too far ahead. Give your self a limited goal. For example you want to accomplish this much this week. This less and this few words I'm going to learn. This one rule of grammmar I want to learn this week or this few weeks. That's all you concern yourselves with.
Dont be overwhelmed by what you dont know just concern yourselves with what you do know.
12. "How do I know I'm progressing in my Arabic?"
Now you know you are stumbling about what word you dont get. Concern yourselves with those words. Concern yourselves with developing questions around the part of Quran you dont understand. This will enhance your knowledge of Quran, simultaneously enhance your knowlegde of language. So, gauge your progress by means of checking your comprehension when you sit there and you recite the Quran.
If you understand very little. You make little progress. But, by the next week or the next month, if you understanding a little bit better. You know a lot more on the page about what's going on. You can smell a lot more words now. And there is progress that has been made. So gauge yourselves. Give yourselves a limited goal. A score of passage in the Quran that you concern yourselves with and you focus on them and you see your progress within them and that's how you should gauge your progress.
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