1) you need basic reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary that's easy to gain ..
2)you need arab friends which can speak fluently standard arabic. Speak with them for couple months and you understand arabic fluently. After another couple of months you will speak it also fluently.
Its unreal how many vocabulary we have with arabic in common. So you have some basics as somali
We used to have Arabic lessons but it was too difficult to understand ficil and different tenses. My mind exploded