منذ أسبوع وأنا أحاول أن أتعلم العربية في البيت، والآن أفهمها أفضل.

منذ means since or for, depending on context.

In منذ أسبوع, it means for a week / since a week ago. It marks the starting point or duration of an action that began in the past and continues up to now.

So:

• منذ أسبوع = for a week / since a week ago

Arabic often uses منذ with a time expression to introduce an ongoing situation, especially when the main verb is in the present tense.

You actually can say منذ أسبوع أحاول أن أتعلم العربية..., and it is understandable.

But منذ أسبوع وأنا أحاول is a very common and natural Arabic pattern. It gives the sense of:

• For a week now, I have been trying...
• literally something like Since a week ago, and I am trying...

The و here helps connect the time phrase to the ongoing state, and أنا makes the subject explicit for emphasis and clarity.

So this structure is very common for expressing an action that started in the past and is still continuing:

• منذ + time + وأنا + present verb

Example:

• منذ شهر وأنا أعمل هنا = I’ve been working here for a month

Because Arabic often uses the present tense to describe an action that is:

• ongoing,
• repeated,
• or continuing up to the present.

So أحاول here means I am trying / I have been trying.

English uses the present perfect progressive:

• I have been trying

Arabic commonly uses:

• a time expression like منذ أسبوع
• plus the present tense

So:

• منذ أسبوع وأنا أحاول = I have been trying for a week

This is one of the most important patterns to learn, because Arabic does not always match English tense choices directly.

Here أن means something like to before a verb.

So:

• أحاول = I try
• أن أتعلم = to learn

Together:

• أحاول أن أتعلم = I try to learn

Grammatically, أن introduces a following verb in the subjunctive.

In fully vowelled Arabic:

• أحاولُ
• أن أتعلمَ

That final vowel on أتعلمَ shows the subjunctive, but in normal unvowelled writing you usually do not see the difference.

أتعلم comes from تعلّم, meaning to learn.

So:

• أتعلم العربية = I learn Arabic / I am learning Arabic

If you wanted to emphasize studying as an academic activity, you might use a verb like:

• أدرس العربية = I study Arabic

The difference is roughly:

• أتعلم = focus on gaining knowledge or ability
• أدرس = focus on studying, often in a structured or academic way

In this sentence, أتعلم العربية sounds very natural because the speaker is talking about the process of learning the language.

Language names in Arabic are very often used with the definite article ال.

So:

• العربية = Arabic
• الإنجليزية = English
• الفرنسية = French

After verbs like أتعلم or أفهم, using العربية is the normal choice:

• أتعلم العربية
• أفهم العربية

Without ال, عربية could sometimes sound less complete or could be understood differently depending on context.

This is a very common difference between Arabic and English.

Arabic usually says:

• في البيت = literally in the house
• but naturally it means at home

So even though English does not use the in at home, Arabic normally does use ال here.

You can think of البيت in this expression as the normal idiomatic way to say home.

A similar sentence:

• أنا في البيت = I am at home

The ها is an attached object pronoun meaning it / her.

It refers back to العربية.

So:

• أفهم = I understand
• أفهمها = I understand it

Because العربية is grammatically feminine, the pronoun used is ها.

This is very normal in Arabic: once the noun has already been mentioned, a pronoun often replaces it.

So instead of repeating العربية, Arabic says:

• والآن أفهمها أفضل = and now I understand it better

Because the word العربية has the feminine ending ـة in its basic form (عربية).

So grammatically it is feminine, and that affects agreement and pronouns.

That is why the sentence uses:

• أفهمها and not أفهمه

The pronoun must match the noun:

• العربية → feminine
• therefore → ها

This is about grammar, not biological gender.

أفضل means better / best, depending on context.

Here it means better:

• أفهمها أفضل = I understand it better

Arabic often uses أفضل directly where English uses better.

Literally, it is the elative form, which can mean:

• better
• best

The context tells you which meaning is intended.

If you want, you could make it more explicit:

• أفهمها الآن بشكل أفضل = I understand it better now
• أفهمها أفضل من قبل = I understand it better than before

But the original sentence is perfectly natural.

Arabic, like English, does not always need to state the second half of the comparison if it is obvious from context.

So:

• والآن أفهمها أفضل naturally means
• And now I understand it better with the implied meaning:
• better than before

The comparison is understood automatically.

If you want to be more explicit, you can say:

• والآن أفهمها أفضل من قبل

But it is not necessary.

Yes, it could say just الآن.

But والآن means and now, which connects the second part smoothly to the first part.

So the sentence has two linked ideas:

1. For a week I’ve been trying to learn Arabic at home
2. and now I understand it better

The و simply joins those ideas.

This is extremely common in Arabic, where و is used very often to connect clauses and phrases.

The sentence can be rearranged somewhat, but the original order is very natural.

Original:

• منذ أسبوع وأنا أحاول أن أتعلم العربية في البيت، والآن أفهمها أفضل.

Possible variation:

• أنا أحاول أن أتعلم العربية في البيت منذ أسبوع، والآن أفهمها أفضل.

Both are understandable, but the original puts emphasis on the duration first:

• For a week now...

That makes it sound especially natural when introducing an ongoing action.

A careful fully vocalized pronunciation would be approximately:

مُنْذُ أُسْبُوعٍ وَأَنَا أُحَاوِلُ أَنْ أَتَعَلَّمَ الْعَرَبِيَّةَ فِي الْبَيْتِ، وَالْآنَ أَفْهَمُهَا أَفْضَلَ.

A few useful notes:

• أحاول = uḥāwilu
• أن أتعلم = an ataʿallama
• العربية = al-ʿarabiyyata in full case-marked reading
• أفهمها = afhamuhā
• أفضل = afḍala

In everyday reading and speech, most case endings are not pronounced fully, especially outside very formal contexts.

It is good, natural Modern Standard Arabic.

Nothing in it is strongly colloquial. It uses standard structures such as:

• منذ أسبوع وأنا...
• أحاول أن أتعلم...
• والآن أفهمها أفضل

A colloquial dialect might choose different words or drop certain elements, but this sentence works well in MSA and is easy for learners to model.