Arabic Conversation Club 'Espacio Al Zubaydi'.

Do you want to learn Arabic in a relaxed and fun environment and meet people with the same interests as you? 

The Three Cultures Foundation and the Azarquiel Association jointly launch the first Arabic conversation club, Space Al Zubaydi.

Al Zubaydi Spaceis an open space and free for all audiences. A heterogeneous public, with different nationalities, ages and levels, who do not know each other but have the same common interest, learning Arabic and its culture in a relaxed way. It is born with a social objective, in which the moment of going to class does not become a 'social' time, but rather a 'social' time.heavy obligation'.but a productive weekly leisure time.

The activity is carried out with the aim of practising Arabic in an informal environment, avoiding traditional teaching methods. In this sense, its format is not a typical class, in which all efforts are made to teach grammar, but rather an immersion that allows us not only to get to know the language, but also its customs, history and cultural and social keys.

From an essentially communicative approach, topics of common interest are presented to the group, which are part of the very basis of the learning process. The desire to speak and express oneself forces the learner to constantly extend the frontiers of his or her linguistic knowledge. The teacher becomes a guide, a didactic resource, resolving doubts and encouraging learners to correct their own mistakes as their fluency and confidence increase.

Do I need to have knowledge of Arabic?

Basic knowledge is recommended.

Places are limited and will be allocated in strict order of registration in the following order link.

• Wednesdays 11, 25 May and 8, 22 June.
• From 19:30 to 21:00
• On the terrace of the Fundación Tres Culturas.
• Learning with native teachers.
• Limited number of places: 15

Biography of Al Zubaydi

"The whole world in all its diversity is one, and all men are neighbours and brothers".

ABU BARK MUHAMMAD IBN AL HASAN ABD ALLAH IBN MUDSHASH AL ZUBAYDI was born in Seville in 928.

He studied in Córdoba, where Abu Al Kali and Abu Abd Allah, among others, were his teachers. In addition to his fame as a grammarian and lexicographer, he also had historical knowledge and poetic skills. He was also the grammar and mathematics teacher of the future caliph Al Haksam II and was appointed by his father, Al Hakam II, cadi of Seville, where he would end his days.

He is said to have amassed a large fortune and to have had a great enthusiasm and fascination for the Arabic language, which he considered the most pleasant to speak, the most exact in structure, the clearest in meaning and expression and the richest in the various branches of knowledge.

He was a competent jurist, being the author of several works, most of which seem to have been written by order of his patron Al Hakam II. His Category of Grammarians and Lexicographers is of great historical importance, including an extensive account of Eastern and Andalusian philologists from the 8th century to his time, pointing out the places where they flourished and the methods they followed. He divides them according to a school or a region, and thus distinguishes four: Basraq, Kufah, Egypt and Al Andalus. Although he does not mention his sources of information, the work was widely used by his successors and is still today an indispensable tool for philological scholars.

Another of his works "El habla defectuosa de las gentes vulgares" (The defective speech of the vulgar people) which fortunately has been preserved, is very valuable for its documentation of the errors in the speech and writing of the Andalusians of the 10th century, and in particular of the inhabitants of Cordoba, errors consisting mainly of misused words, mispronunciations and changes of vowels and consonants. He tried to correct them by using Koranic passages, proverbs, poetry and Arabic sayings.

He died in his hometown in 989.