Learn Arabic

Learn Arabic with guided lessons in sounds, reading, vocabulary and grammar, plus interactive A1–A2 practice.

Learn the alphabet

Meet all 28 letters, read from right to left, and use shapes, dots, and sounds to tell them apart.

Alif and the dot family — Meet alif, baa, taa, and thaa; find the dots before guessing.
Jiim, ḥaa, and khaa — Use the shared hook and its dot position to distinguish three sounds.
Daal, dhaal, raa, and zaay — Learn two dot pairs that break the joining line.
Siin and shiin — Spot the teeth and hear s versus sh.
Ṣaad and ḍaad — Recognize the broad body and two emphatic consonants.
Ṭaa and ẓaa — Distinguish two tall emphatic letters from ordinary taa and dhaal.
ʿAyn and ghayn — Recognize two changing shapes and explore their throat sounds.
Faa and qaaf — Compare rounded heads, dots, and mouth positions.
Kaaf, laam, and miim — Add three common letters with distinctive joined shapes.
Nuun, haa, waaw, and yaa — Finish all 28 letters and meet the letters that can write ii and uu.
Final review — 50 questions covering all 28 letters, with extra practice for the trickiest forms. Earn double XP and an extra 200 XP for a perfect run without hints.

Join shapes, add vowels, close syllables, and read doubled consonants.

One letter, changing shapes — Choose contextual forms and understand all six non-joiners.
Three small vowel marks — Read fatḥa, kasra, and ḍamma with familiar consonants.
Hold aa, ii, and uu — Distinguish short vowels from long vowels and consonant w/y.
Close a syllable with sukuun — Read consonants without inserting an extra vowel, then try ay and aw.
Double a sound; join laam and alif — Read shadda and the laam–alif ligature, then distinguish two extra spelling signs.

Read small sets of everyday words and recall them in both directions.

Read the world around you — Four useful nouns: door, house, book, and pen.
Food and the sky — Read bread, grapes, sun, and moon with clear sound contrasts.
A world of colors — Read and remember red, blue, yellow, and green.
More colors around you — Add black, white, brown, and pink to your vocabulary.

Connect Eastern Arabic digits, number names, and quantities.

Zero to four — Learn the first five digit shapes and their number names.
Five to nine — Finish the single digits and read their fully marked names.
Ten and the first teens — Read two-digit values and learn the special forms for eleven and twelve.
Fourteen to seventeen — Build four teen names and keep the joining t sound.
Eighteen, nineteen, twenty — Complete the range and distinguish the last teens from twenty.

Grammar step 1 · Five useful verbs, one set of endings. Learn who did what, from I and you to groups and pairs.

I wrote, you wrote — Start with kataba and spot the difference between -tu, -ta, and -ti.
One pattern, five useful verbs — Use the same I and you endings with study, open, enter, and go.
He did it, she did it — Compare -a for he with -at for she across all five verbs.
From I to we — Add -naa for we and revisit -tu for I.
Speaking to a group — Practise -tum and -tunna for you, addressing three or more people.
Talking about a group — Distinguish they wrote from we wrote: -uu, -na, and -naa.
Exactly two people — Meet the dual: you two and they two, with clear gender cues.
Regular verbs: mixed review — Twenty mixed questions covering all five verbs and every subject form.

Articles, gender, agreement, pronouns and possession in short written MSA.

A book or the book? — Attach ال and recognize sun-letter spelling.
This book, this school — Recognize gender and choose هذا or هذه.
Describe things and make statements — Match adjectives and distinguish a phrase from a sentence.
Say who someone is — Use subject pronouns in simple identity sentences.
My book and the student's book — Learn selected suffixes and a two-noun possession phrase.

Five familiar verbs in the present, all subject slots, and everyday places.

I do, we do — Meet the five present stems without guessing from the past.
You, he and she today — Use singular prefixes and the feminine -īna ending.
Groups acting now — Contrast -ūna with feminine -na for you and they.
Exactly two, in the present — Learn the dual ending -āni with explicit gender cues.
At home, to school — Use core prepositions with the five present verbs.

Ask, negate, plan and make short requests with carefully marked endings.

Say what does not happen — Use لا with indicative present forms.
Not a student, not at home — Learn selected forms of ليس and preserve person vowels.
Who, what, where and when? — Ask simple written questions with familiar sentences.
Make and decline a plan — Use سـ, سوف and selected لن forms.
A past negative without a past ending — Meet لم with selected jussive present forms.
Give a short instruction — Use selected commands and distinguish 'do not' from 'you do not'.

Read short daily contexts and learn selected weak and hamzated forms explicitly.

Find everyday things — Name rooms, furniture and nearby places.
Read a small daily plan — Connect places, time words and familiar verbs.
Say and be: changing the middle — Learn selected forms of قال and كان explicitly.
Stand and walk: changing the edges — Meet initial-weak and final-weak verbs through a few fixed forms.
Eat, take and ask politely — Learn explicit hamza forms in a short food context.

Keep these reference tables handy as you learn.