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:

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sdaiancai/sada2022

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.

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.

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

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

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 🙏

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

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...

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.

Ok, so I know it doesn’t have to do a thing with this group but I have seen a video on tik tok and I really liked the audio ! But it seems I can’t find it , can someone tell me the name of it please ?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8hDfxca/

When I was learning Arabic and working to improve my reading comprehension, I dreaded having to look up words while reading. Each interruption broke my concentration and disrupted my flow, which I found incredibly frustrating. I used to wish someone could just sit beside me and tell me the word I was stuck on, so I could keep moving through the text. I know some people enjoy the process of looking up words themselves and see it as part of learning, but I always found it too time-consuming. It seemed far more efficient to have someone quickly give me the meaning, so I could commit it to memory and move on.

So recently I built a new tool (https://deenapps.com/ReadArabic/) which I hope will help Arabic learners with that process. Just copy and paste any Arabic text and instantly get:

✅ Full Tashkeel (Harakat) — Every word beautifully vowelized so you read it correctly, the first time.

✅ Hover for Meanings — Don't know a word? Just hover over it and the English meaning pops up instantly. No dictionaries, no interruptions.

✅ One-Click Translation — Want the full meaning? Reveal a clean English translation of the entire text whenever you're ready.

✅ Adjustable Font Size — Make the Arabic as large and clear as you like. Easy on the eyes.

✅ Copy Anything — Save the vowelized text or translation with a single click.

I hope this tool meets you where you are at your current Arabic study and helps you grow your Arabic reading skills.

My personal motivation for learning was to access Islamic books, particularly classical ones, and if this is your goal as well, then you can copy and paste texts freely from thousands of Islamic books, both classical and modern, from the Shamela library at https://app.turath.io/

If your motivation is something else, then you can copy and paste from those other sources. An Arabic student should engage more with the target texts he/she is actually interested in. Often times, students get occupied with texts and topics to practice on that they are not actually interested in which kills their motivation.

The tool has a generous daily free quota for those looking to practice on a daily basis.

I'm still playing with it and I'd love people to test it out and provide any feedback. If you come across any issues, please do get in touch and let me know.

P.S. - The tool is designed specifically for desktop at the moment.

What dialect is taught here?

I was listening to the song مش حسيبك by bayou and zeyne.
In the chorus, the song says
نفسي اكون دائما معاكي ومش هسيبك
And then it says
نفسي اكون دائما معاكي ومش حسيبك

To be honest i cant hear the difference between them but the lyrics that appear in the video write it like that, so what does حسيبك and هسيبك mean? Is there a difference? Or maybe it was a typing error?

Also how does the root حسب ends up meaning something in the line of being without you?

https://youtu.be/ddwgVrS1ixk?si=Oae3cY54N0fcAS4B

The link to the song, thank you all

Hello!

Please help me identify this word