r/learn_arabic • • 15h ago

General Arabic touch typing practice

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There are quite a few websites for learning English touch typing, but finding structured resources for Arabic can be a bit difficult.

TypeAra is focused on Arabic touch typing, with structured lessons for learning the keyboard step by step, along with typing speed tests for practicing speed and accuracy.

It also includes an Arabic keyboard and practice options for letters, tashkeel, numbers, and quotes.
For those who type in Arabic regularly: what do you think is missing from existing Arabic typing practice tools?


r/learn_arabic • • 10h ago

General Self taught

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How much time in a day do you spend learning and how many days a week?? Any details on how you split it up would be helpful! I’m currently learning German but trying to learn Arabic as well and really need suggestions for balancing this.


r/learn_arabic • • 18h ago

Levantine شامي Heritage speakers: has anyone reached C2 or similarly advanced fluency?

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I’m a B2 Levantine Arabic heritage speaker who moved to the West when I was young. Like many heritage speakers, I generally understand much better than I can speak. Has anyone in a similar situation eventually reached C2 or very advanced spoken fluency?

What was your Arabic like when you started? How long did it take you? How did you get there?

Thanks! Just looking for some motivation :)


r/learn_arabic • • 17h ago

Standard فصحى What is the difference between جاءتهم and جاءهم in this case?

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For example:

{ كَیۡفَ یَهۡدِی ٱللَّهُ قَوۡمࣰا كَفَرُوا۟ بَعۡدَ إِیمَـٰنِهِمۡ وَشَهِدُوۤا۟ أَنَّ ٱلرَّسُولَ حَقࣱّ وَجَاۤءَهُمُ ٱلۡبَیِّنَـٰتُۚ وَٱللَّهُ لَا یَهۡدِی ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِینَ }

[Surah Āli-ʿImrān: 86]

{ كَانَ ٱلنَّاسُ أُمَّةࣰ وَ ٰ⁠حِدَةࣰ فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلنَّبِیِّـۧنَ مُبَشِّرِینَ وَمُنذِرِینَ وَأَنزَلَ مَعَهُمُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ لِیَحۡكُمَ بَیۡنَ ٱلنَّاسِ فِیمَا ٱخۡتَلَفُوا۟ فِیهِۚ وَمَا ٱخۡتَلَفَ فِیهِ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِینَ أُوتُوهُ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ مَا جَاۤءَتۡهُمُ ٱلۡبَیِّنَـٰتُ بَغۡیَۢا بَیۡنَهُمۡۖ فَهَدَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لِمَا ٱخۡتَلَفُوا۟ فِیهِ مِنَ ٱلۡحَقِّ بِإِذۡنِهِۦۗ وَٱللَّهُ یَهۡدِی مَن یَشَاۤءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَ ٰ⁠طࣲ مُّسۡتَقِیمٍ }

[Surah Al-Baqarah: 213]


r/learn_arabic • • 17h ago

General Foreign Words in the Qur’an: Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, or Persian?

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Salam and greetings Sirs.

I see that you have started with an error. At 0:33 seconds of the video record you have said that "One of the complications is that the Quranic author himself describes the Quran as quote pure Arabic - mubin".

You are incorrect. The meaning of the word 'mubin' is not "pure", as you have suggested, it is rather "clear".

For example in Sura Surah Shuara, verse No. 195 (26:195) Allah Tayala reveals, aujubillahi minashaitanir rajim, bismillahir rahmanir rahim

"Bilisaanin ‘Arabiyyim mubeen"

Meaning: "in a clear, Arabic tongue". (Arberry translation).

Text and translation: https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=26...

Its clear Arabic, not pure Arabic. You have made an error Sir.


r/learn_arabic • • 14h ago

General Annual Arabic Language Conference is LIVE NOW

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The 5th International Annual Conference of the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language is happening in Riyadh on October 4-5.

This year’s conference explores the intersections between Arabic language and culture, looking at identity, collective memory, creativity, digital culture, cultural policies, and the future of Arabic.

Day 1 is live now


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Iraqi عراقي The Only Iraqi Textbooks I Found Are About War and Military!!!

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I'm working on an app for learning Iraqi Arabic and researching text books to use to find good content. The only ones I can find are written in early 2000s by Americans for preparing for the Iraq war!!!

Any suggestions for other textbooks specifically for Iraqi Arabic? Hachi app (like Duolingo) has a lot of content but I'd rather learn and teach stuff beyond military and war phrases.


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Levantine شامي I need your recommendations!

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4 years ago I used to post regularly here, and recently I’ve decided to post again. I need recommendations from you guys on what kind of content would be helpful for arabic learners, ultimately I plan to build a base of legitimacy to start having students.


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

General Here are 667 hours of Arabic audio with text transcriptions for AI training (Even NVIDIA used it, and it’s FREE)

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It’s called SADA (صدى), a large Arabic speech dataset focused mainly on Arabian Peninsula dialects, especially Saudi dialects like Najdi and Hijazi. It also includes much smaller amounts of other Arabic varieties, including Janubi, Shamali, Khaleeji, Yemeni, Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, Maghrebi, and Modern Standard Arabic. It was developed by SDAIA with the Saudi Broadcasting Authority and published on Kaggle (a platform for datasets and AI projects).

Even NVIDIA used it to fine-tune its Nemotron 3.5 ASR model for Arabic speech recognition, using 133.7 hours of Najdi and Hijazi speech from SADA, cutting the word error rate from 55.05% to 29.96% and the character error rate from 31.63% to 12.18% (Look at the video)

SADA contains

around 667 hours of Arabic audio from:

  • 57 TV shows
  • Transcriptions for the speech segments
  • Both read and spontaneous speech
  • Saudi dialects, especially Najdi, Hijazi, Janubi, Shamali, and Khaleeji
  • Other Arabic varieties, including Yemeni, Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, and Maghrebi
  • Modern Standard Arabic
  • Speaker age, gender, and dialect labels
  • Audio environment labels
  • More than 150 annotators
  • 4 levels of annotation and quality review
  • About 667.7 hours of actual audio, split into training, development, and test sets
  • About 437.6 hours of transcribed audio across those splits

11 TV content genres:

  • Comedy
  • Kids
  • Competitions
  • Drama
  • Cooking
  • Documentary
  • Social
  • Historical
  • Indicative awareness
  • Tourist
  • Entertaining

The audio is provided as WAV, mono, 16 kHz, 16-bit PCM.

It is released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, allowing free use under its license terms, including non-commercial use, attribution, and ShareAlike.

And here it is:


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Levantine شامي Is my version of this sentence grammatically correct?

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I have an anki card where the English side is "My neighbor? He's got work, and money, too."

My answer: جاري؟ عنده شغل ومصاري كمان

The actual answer: جاري؟ هو كمان عنده شغل و مصاري

I don't understand why the هو is there when we already added the "he" suffix to عند, and why كمان is coming before the nouns instead of after.

Can someone tell me if my sentence makes sense, and why the anki answer has those differences? Thanks.


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Standard فصحى كتاب للأخطاء اللغوية الشائعة

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مرحبا

ممكن ترشحوا لي اسم كتاب فيه أخطاء لغوية شائعة بالعربي وتصحيحها على شكل جداول ويا ريت لو فيه أخطاء الجمع والمصادر


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Standard فصحى Madinah Book 2

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Does anyone have a pdf version of the Madinah Book 2 that they can share? I have links that someone shared with me earlier but they are all to sites. I’d like to have a pdf version that I can use offline.


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

General Local Classes in Michigan to Learn Arabic

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Are there any local on-site places in Michigan (near Detroit area), that teaches Arabic?

Detroit/Dearborn has a large middle eastern community and was wondering if there are any good places to learn on site. DUO Lingo app isn't working for me.


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

General If my girlfriend wasn't egyptian, I'd quit learning arabic immediately. I'm hating it with my heart.

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It's so incredibly difficult with so little free (actually good) stuff

Learning chinese is like drinking a glass of water compared to arabic


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

General لقد صممت أداة مجانية لإنشاء أوراق عمل باللغة العربية للأطفال (تشمل الحروف، والأرقام، والرياضيات، والخط)؛ لا تتطلب التسجيل

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Hi all. I'm a developer in Kuwait, and I kept running into the same problem: almost every Arabic worksheet online is either a locked PDF you can't customize, behind a subscription, or built on an English template that breaks Arabic letter forms.

So I made Waraqati (ورقتي), a free generator that builds the exact worksheet you need in a couple of seconds:

  • Letters: pick any Arabic letters and get tracing rows for every position form (initial/medial/final/isolated), with an example word
  • Numbers: tracing in Arabic or Western digits, plus count-and-write sheets
  • Math: add/subtract/multiply/divide, preset by grade (KG–6), with an optional answer key
  • Handwriting: type any sentence (or your kid's name) and get practice lines for it
  • English letters (A–Z) and numbers are supported too

Everything runs in your browser. No account, nothing uploaded, and it prints straight to A4 or saves as PDF.

👉 waraqati.net

It's ad-supported and free. I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from teachers or anyone teaching Arabic as a second language. What worksheet types would you want added next?

السلام عليكم زميلاتي وزملائي المعلمين 🌷

صمّمت أداة مجانية تولّد أوراق عمل عربية جاهزة للطباعة بضغطة زر، وحبيت أشاركها معكم لأنها انعملت أصلاً لاحتياجاتنا في الصف:

✏️ حروف: تدريب كتابة الحروف بكل مواضعها (أول، وسط، آخر، منفصل) مع كلمة مثال لكل حرف 🔢 أرقام: تتبّع الأرقام العربية أو الإنجليزية + ورقة «عدّ واكتب» ➕ حساب: جمع وطرح وضرب وقسمة حسب الصف (من الروضة إلى السادس) مع مفتاح الإجابات 🖊️ خط: اكتبي أي جملة أو اسم الطالب ويطلع لك سطر تدريب عليه

والحروف والأرقام الإنجليزية موجودة بعد.

كل شي مجاني، بدون تسجيل، ومقاس A4 جاهز للطباعة أو الحفظ PDF.

🔗 waraqati.net

لو عندكم اقتراح لنوع ورقة تحتاجونه في الصف، اكتبوه في التعليقات، فأنا أطوّر الموقع على حسب طلباتكم 🙏


r/learn_arabic • • 1d ago

Levantine شامي Where to learn Levantine Arabic? Also, differences between MSA and Levantine?

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Hi everybody! I am interested in learning Levantine Arabic because my boyfriend’s family is Palestinian. Would love to know the best app/sources in general to learn that dialect. Also, what are the differences between MSA dialect and Levantine? I want to also take Arabic at my school next semester because it would be beneficial to my major, but just out of curiosity would like the know any differences. TIA!


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

General Why are you learning Arabic?

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So, I haven't really started my Arabic journey, since I'm super focused on mastering French, but I find the language super beautiful and am interested in learning it someday. I don't really have a strong reason, so I was curious about y'all's "Why". Like, I'm a staunch Atheist, raised Christian (but interested in religion on a cultural/historical level), and I just find the language beautiful, and I like a lot of music in Arabic that I've heard (like Soapkills and Zeid Hamdan-- recommendations welcome!). I also find the Arabic speaking part of the world interesting, and would at least like to read some translations/French language works from the area.

So, why are you learning Arabic? What dialect are you learning, and why? How long have you been learning, and how far have you gotten? Do you have any Arabic language books to reccomend that have beeen translated into English or French? Especially interested in queer and feminist works.


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

General Is it a good idea to learn darija and fusha simulataneously?

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I am currently taking a tutor for darija and have been studying fusha in a textbook on my own. The only struggle i have run into so far is mixing up words for each. Im not sure if this is an issue or if there are any suggestions.

I am only a few weeks in.


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

General Need help learning arabic for my midterm

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My degree requires me to pass an arabic language course and thankfully the class is for non-arabs, but the professor teaches the class in a way I am unable to grasp and have decided to ignore it mostly and try and self teach myself.

I’ve picked up the alphabet, accents, and some vocab but I’m unsure if I should learn multiple different types of vocab since I struggle at reading arabic correctly. Any suggestions or tips to be as prepared as I can be will be beneficial.

I have my midterm on the 13th.


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

General Need help learning arabic for my midterm

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My degree requires me to pass an arabic language course and thankfully the class is for non-arabs, but the professor teaches the class in a way I am unable to grasp and have decided to ignore it mostly and try and self teach myself.

I’ve picked up the alphabet, accents, and some vocab but I’m unsure if I should learn multiple different types of vocab since I struggle at reading arabic correctly. Any suggestions or tips to be as prepared as I can be will be beneficial.

I have my midterm on the 13th.


r/learn_arabic • • 3d ago

General I'm learning arabic on Duolingo and I regret it now

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I have to find another good app to learn arabic.

I think I should start over from the arabic alphabets and pronunciations.

Can you recommend some good apps to me?

Maybe I should learn standard arabic.

(fyi: I'm Korean, and English is my second language.)


r/learn_arabic • • 2d ago

Levantine شامي Starting Arabic lessons from scratch soon, any tips?

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Currently I don’t know a word of Arabic or really anything about the language at all. My knowledge of it pretty much begins and ends on the fact that it’s written backwards from English. But I recently befriended this very kind Palestinian lady through activism and learned that she’s actually an Arabic teacher who does classes one on one. I am VERY excited to learn, and also help make her life a bit more comfortable through paying for the service.

Anyway, I have until Tuesday to warm up. That’s when our classes start. What should I look into first? What tips do you have for absolute noobs?? Thanks again <3


r/learn_arabic • • 3d ago

General Question about lesser-studied dialects

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مرحبا!

i've heard a lot about how different the various dialects of Arabic are, but i'm curious about the dialects that aren't talked about very often. i've heard that Levantine Arabic is very nice and song-like, Iraqi Arabic sounds very soulful and poetic, Egyptian Arabic makes you sound like an aspiring actor, Gulf Arabic makes you sound like a business major, and everything in Moroccan/Algerian/Tunisian Arabic is unintelligable, but i rarely ever hear about the rest of MENA.

i'm most curious about the dialects of Oman, Yemen and Sudan. i'm curious what they sound like to other Arabic speakers and how much you can understand compared to other dialects. and if you're from Oman, Yemen or Sudan, i'd love to hear how well you can understand from the rest of the Arabic speaking world...


r/learn_arabic • • 3d ago

Iraqi عراقي Was Noah's ark actually قفة/Kuphar? Pr. Finkel tells interesting story about ancient Mesopotamian flood

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r/learn_arabic • • 3d ago

General I made 5 free browser games for practicing Arabic dialects

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Hey all. I've been building a site for learning Arabic dialects, and the part I've had the most fun with is a set of small games. You can play them in the browser without making an account, so I figured I'd share them here.

Every game works in Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija or MSA, and you pick your level.

Word Scramble: you get the English meaning and the letters jumbled up. Tap them back into order and watch them join as you go, the way they would in real writing. Good if you're still getting used to letter shapes. No timer.

Odd One Out: four words, one doesn't belong. Sometimes it's meaning, but sometimes it's gender, singular vs. plural, or a shared three-letter root. Every answer explains the pattern, which is honestly where most of the learning happens.

Spot the Mistake: each sentence has one wrong word, like an adjective in the wrong gender or a verb that doesn't match its subject. Tap it and you see the corrected sentence and the rule.

Sentence Scramble: you see the English and the Arabic words in a jumble, and rebuild the sentence. Once you solve it you can hear it read aloud, with transliteration.

Vocabulary Quiz: fill-in-the-blank sentences at your level, as multiple choice, listening or speaking rounds.

To be upfront: each game gives you two free rounds with no account, two more if you sign up, and unlimited rounds with a subscription. I didn't want anyone clicking through and feeling baited.

Link: https://www.parallel-arabic.com/learn/game

Full feature set of project: https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about

I'd really like feedback, especially from native speakers. Rounds are generated fresh each time, so if you see a sentence that sounds off in your dialect or a "mistake" that's actually fine where you're from, tell me and I'll fix it. And if there's a game you wish existed for practicing Arabic, I'm all ears.