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Congratulations on starting your journey to learn Arabic. Whether you are interested in traveling to …

Twelve Arabic movies with English subtitles, each with the dialect you will actually hear, the runtime, and where to stream it from outside the Arab world.

Every common Arabic preposition in one table, with script, transliteration, the genitive ending it forces on the next noun, and how it joins a pronoun suffix.

Twelve Arabic songs sorted by the dialect they are sung in, each with one line of the chorus in Arabic script, transliteration and plain English.

Arabic TV shows and series by dialect, level and platform: which of 12 hit series are Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf or Tunisian, and where to watch each one.

Arabic YouTube channels and podcasts, each one labelled with the dialect the host actually speaks, whether it is taught in Arabic or English, and the level.

Emirati Arabic in script and transliteration: 14 words where the UAE dialect breaks from general Gulf Arabic, 14 essential phrases, and where to learn it.

Food in Arabic in four varieties: 40 words in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, plus 14 named dishes and the country each belongs to.

Islamic phrases in Arabic with full vowel marks, literal meanings, the moment each one is said, and the reply you are expected to give back. 29 phrases.

Kuwaiti Arabic in script and transliteration: hello, sorry and I love you, the qaf-to-g and kaf-to-ch shifts, and how to start learning the dialect.

Libyan Arabic, east against west: Benghazi and Tripoli speech in one table, the n- prefix that makes it Maghrebi, and the few books that actually exist.

The 100 most common Quran words in one table: Arabic with harakat, transliteration, meaning, root, and an exact occurrence count from corpus.quran.com.

The Saudi dialect is really three. See Najdi, Hejazi and Modern Standard Arabic side by side in script and transliteration, with the phrases you actually need.

Sudanese Arabic for learners: the words that do not transfer from Egyptian, the Nubian and Beja vocabulary nobody lists, and where to actually study it.

Telling time in Arabic, hour by hour: all twelve hours in script and transliteration, plus the wa and illa minute forms as Egypt and the Levant say them.

Weather in Arabic in one chart: every word in Modern Standard, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, plus the four seasons and the winds each region names.

An Arabic alphabet chart with all 28 letters in every position: isolated, initial, medial and final, with transliteration, sounds and sun letters marked.

All the Arabic colors in one table: masculine, feminine and the plural form other lists leave out, plus the nisba colors and what Egyptians really say.

The Arabic days of the week in Modern Standard, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf and Moroccan, with transliteration, plus which day the week actually starts on.

Every Arabic diacritic on one letter: fatha, kasra, damma, sukun, shadda and the three tanwin, plus which real texts print harakat and which never do.

Family in Arabic, mapped relative by relative: the core kinship words, all eight cousin terms, the in-law set, and every one with its possessive ending.

The Arabic months in one place: all 12 Hijri months, plus the Gregorian months as named in the Levant and in Egypt and the Gulf, in script and transliteration.

Arabic numbers 1 to 100 in one chart: Eastern and Western numerals, Arabic spelling, transliteration, and the counting rules most number lists leave out.

All 12 Arabic pronouns in one chart: independent, possessive and object forms in Modern Standard, Egyptian and Levantine, with script and transliteration.

Arabic verb conjugation tables for kataba in all 13 persons: past, present, subjunctive, jussive and imperative, with Egyptian and Levantine forms beside them.

The best way to learn Arabic, from someone who did it as an adult: the book, tutor and app that worked, the popular course we reject, and a first-month plan.

Common Arabic phrases in script and transliteration, given three ways at once: Modern Standard, Levantine, and Egyptian. Say the version people actually use.

How long does it take to learn Arabic? A real learner's milestone timeline, from first letters to fluent reading, measured against the FSI 2,200-hour estimate.

Is Arabic hard to learn? Yes in places, no in others. Here is a skill-by-skill difficulty rating from an adult who learned it, with the real timings.

Learn Arabic free without the bait. We name what stays free forever, where each free tier stops, what is only a trial, and the popular ones we tell you to skip.

We scored the eight main Arabic dialects on speakers, reach, media, resources and difficulty, then picked one. See the table and what would change our answer.

Most Arabic learners hit a wall the first time they try to read a business sign or a letterhead. Arabic business names are formulaic …

How Jordanian Arabic changes across Amman, the north, the south, Aqaba and the Bedouin desert: the qaf, "I want" and "why", compared region by region.

Over the past few years, learning Arabic has become a passion of mine. At the …

Levantine Arabic (Shami شامي ) is the variety of Arabic spoken by people in the …

Abu Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger [Muhammad] (may peace be upon him) as saying: “There are …

There are a total of 364 vocabulary words found in Al Kitaab Part One. The …

A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language by Nahmad and Haywood is one of …

Learning to understand the Quran is a very challenging but rewarding goal is your life.  …

The vocabulary for A New Arabic Grammar contains 2600 words.  The words are selected based …

Arabic is the fifth most popular language in the world with over 300 million speakers. …

50 animals in Arabic, in script and transliteration, each one given with its plural. Plus the animals in the Quran's chapter names and in everyday proverbs.