It's that time of the year again 
This is probably my fifth year doing this, I guess I just love teaching Arabic, especially to comrades.
I enjoy making things make sense, and Arabic is absolutely perfect for this! It's its own language, one that is based on its own (magical, as comrade mathemachristian called it) root system, and not just a mishmash of different languages. You'll love learning about patterns, verb forms, and how to derive words from the magical root system, you'll see how powerful and expressive Arabic really is.
I have my own course material that I constantly improve upon, and it helps me adapt the lessons and study plan to my students' interests as well as their pace. I truly believe that language learning has to be fun and engaging, and things need to make sense, starting from the dots on the letters.
Let me know if you have any questions about Arabic or how I conduct my classes. As for the money, it's pay what you can since this is something I do on the side and enjoy immensely.
I have been teaching @mathemachristian@hexbear.net once a week for more than a year now and I asked him if he'd like to talk about his experience learning Arabic so far, I think what he wrote deserves its own post:
Learning arabic is great fun. Deciphering the meaning of sentences, deconstructing them and reconstructing them in a new language is a very fun and rewarding puzzle in its own right. And arabic makes the reconstruction very easy because it is very regular. Once you start to really delve into it, it also becomes easier and easier to vibe meaning of arabic words you don't know, not just from context, but because arabic constructs them in a way that makes them deliberately similar to words of similar meaning. You just find the magic 3 letters and the word is (likely to be) revealed! What most people probably are intimidated by is the script, but it actually is very easy, and the standard font doesn't do it's beauty justice. It's just a cursive script. If you know a latin cursive you already mastered a worse cursive.
I'm also very much enjoying that the lessons don't follow the standard A1 then A2 then B1 and so on format that involves memorizing a lot of sentences and stilted dialogues. The absence of a verb for "to be" makes it very easy to start constructing your own sentences, bypassing tenses, conjugation &c. and leave them for later.
Plus it opens dialogues that are great fun. Arab people are overjoyed at someone being able to say some basic sentences, or read/write arabic it opens a lot of doors and is just awesome fun. Surprise your friends by casually having a notebook full of arabic writing lying around!
If you want, you can dm me from a throwaway account, or contact me on Element.
And like I said last year, if there is interest for group lessons I'd be more than happy to do that.
That sounds sick, thanks for offering. Maybe I'll take you up on it eventually. For now, I'm about a year deep into mandarin, and I barely have it in me to study for that haha
do you mind if I ask how you are going about learning mandarin? how much would you say you know it after a year of working on it?
I'm paying for 1 on 1 teaching 3x per week, we go through her textbooks page by page. Then I supplement with whatever solo reading, listening, and other studying I can manage to get myself to do throughout the week, which is admittedly little.
Going by the CEFR system I'd call myself firmly A2. I can understand even reasonably complex sentences as long as they're spoken slowly, I can form sentences for all the general basic stuff. I often struggle with the finer points of forming complicated sentences myself though, stuff that has multiple clauses and such. And I definitely struggle with following conversations spoken at a normal speed, even if they're clearly spoken and use only words I know well. There's definitely still a firm "translation layer" going on, where I have to think about what any given sentence means in English rather than just understanding it directly in Chinese.
I'm getting close to the point that I could pass the HSK2 exam if I wanted to, HSK1 would be easy ofc.
Good luck with your Mandarin journey.
Thanks! I'm enjoying it, even if it's tricky!
Everything they say about it being difficult is true. In fact, you can't even understand just how difficult it really is until about after 6-12 months of study. Then you can finally see just. how. high. that mountain really is. Everest is nothing, you know that mountain on Mars? Like that but more difficult.