These words are very common in Arabic, but they can be confusing for Arabic learners. In this lesson, we will learn the meaning and use of each of these.

Here is a description of each:

At Champolu, we provide a lot of free materials to help you learn Arabic. In this article, you can find a list of the free materials we have. Indeed, you don’t have to pay a lot of money (or any money) to get started to learn Arabic.

List of Free eBooks to learn Arabic

• Arabic Cheat Sheet: This is a good starting point to the grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. It covers many topics with many examples and visualizations. It has an interactive version, where you can listen to the example. Also, you can download it as a PDF file from here.

• Arabic Reading Guide: If you cannot read Arabic script, this guide can help you. It explains all the alphabet and diacritics, and helps you sound out Arabic words. Download from here.
• Word of the day: You need to keep working consistently on building your vocabulary. These word of the day Facebook posts help you with a new word each day.
• Vocabulary sheets: These are different sheets to learn vocabulary for different topics, in different varieties of Arabic. This is a sheet for basic vocabulary of Modern Standard Arabic.
• Word of the day: Here you can find a list of word of the day posts, that we publish on our Facebook page.
• Noun Phrases in Arabic: One of the things that shows your command of grammar is how to build a noun phrase. This interactive lesson helps you get a full understanding on noun phrases, and how to build and understand them.
• Which Arabic to learn Guide: Arabic has different varieties. There is Modern Standard Arabic and many dialects in different Arab countries. This guide helps you understand the difference and know what and how to learn. (Coming Soon)

List of Free Arabic Learning Apps

You cannot learn a language without practice and consistency. Therefore, one of our goals is to build apps that can help you with this to learn more effectively. Here is a list of our apps:

• ALIF (Arabic Learning Is Fun): ALIF helps you learn Arabic reading, vocabulary, verbs and grammar in a methodological and fun way. You can go to the app here. It is still in the development phase, so your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Arabic Word Search: To polish your vocabulary and reading skills, you can play this simple game. Each word search has a theme, where you need to find.

List of Free Videos to learn Arabic

You can learn a lot by watching a video. Here are some of the playlists we have. In these playlists, you can get more skills in Arabic reading, grammar, and listening to actual media. For more, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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In this lesson, we will learn about comparatives in Arabic: How to say words such as bigger, smaller, faster and similar. Also, we will learn about Arabic morphology (Sarf الصَرف)

It’s not easy to tell what the best Arabic learning App is. There are so many on the market and on the app stores. However, in this article we will not talk as much about a list of apps. You may find such lists in this and this. Instead, we will talk about what would make a good language learning app. This will also include a shameless promotion to our experimental app (ALIF) ?. ALIF is a free app that attempts to address all these points, so you may give it a try and tell what you think!

Arabic Variety Coverage

Many learning apps, whether specializing in Arabic, or just including it, focus mainly on Modern Standard Arabic. While MSA can be a useful starting point, it is not enough on its own. When you speak to people in the streets in Cairo, Beirut or Casablanca, you can hardly hear anyone speaking MSA. Therefore, to communicate with people and understand them, you need dialects. A good Arabic learning app would support MSA in addition to other dialects.

Alphabet and Reading

A common assumption in several Arabic learning apps is that learners need to learn the alphabet from a very basic level. For such apps, lessons and practices focus on individual alphabet letters. Other apps have a completely opposite assumption: that any learner can read Arabic script without a problem. Duolingo introduces some lessons where you can indirectly learn the alphabet, but this may not be sufficient. A useful learning app would have options where you can start with learning the alphabet specifically, including diacritics. It also needs to include letter shapes, sounds and extended alphabet. Ultimately, it would help learners sound out anything written in Arabic script. If a learner can already read Arabic script, then they simply wouldn’t need this part.

Arabic Vocabulary Support

Many apps that focus on vocabulary, such as Memrise and various flash cards apps, such as Anki. While this is useful, it needs to be very organized. There are thousands of vocabulary words that you can find in books or that native speakers use. A good language learning app would organize these into categories. For Arabic in particular, the app must also include plurals, because Arabic plurals are not consistent. Therefore, you need to learn each word with its plural. You also need to learn the pronunciation of the word through correct use of diacritics and romanization if needed.

Learning in two directions

An important thing to keep in mind when you learn a language is that there are two directions. In one direction, you need to learn how to say the things you want in the language you’re learning.

Arabic Expressions and Phrase Books

You may have seen things such as “phrase books” before. These are designed to help you communicate when you travel.

Arabic Verbs

You cannot build a sentence with just nouns and adjectives. You always need a verb. Things such as “want”, “go”, “eat”, “understand” are essential. It

Grammar

Although apps such as Duolingo would implicitly teach grammar through sentence examples, this is not sufficient. It is important to have specific focus on each grammar topic separately. This way, you will know whether you have mastered this topic well, or you still to work more on it. For example, topics such as prepositions, pronouns, relative pronouns need special attention. These are the building blocks of the language, and you need to make sure to understand each topic on its own very well.

Audio

Language is primarily spoken.

Progress and Mistakes

You cannot learn anything unless you make mistakes.

Streak and habit formation

This is perhaps one of the greatest strengths of Duolingo.

Conclusion

As we have seen, there are several elements for a language learning app or approach. A clever learner would want to combine these, even from different apps and resources. These are ultimately tested and improved with actual communication with native speakers. Immersion in an enivironment of the target language would be very useful, only assuming that you have some of the basics for communication: basic reading, vocabulary, expressions, verbs and grammar. It is our hope to build an app that can help with this different aspects, while allowing tracking progress and building habits. You can try our new app (ALIF) here.

We are pleased to announce that we are at the final stages of building our newest app for learning Arabic: ALIF- Arabic Learning Is Fun!

The app helps build Arabic language skills for both Modern Standard Arabic and other dialects:, in the following:

• reading and writing skills
• vocabulary in different areas
• verbs, with both tenses and conjugations
• Build grammar, by first memorizing grammar words, and then building sentences
• Learn common expressions and basic conversations

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