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Best Arabic Websites

  • This site all in Arabic



  • It's time to start learning Arabic

       The most recently added NEW SITES are found here

       Arabic Grammar Help    Test Your Arabic Here    Help With Arabic Verbs


       Sites for Arabic Teachers    Arabic Tutorial Lessons    Arabic Worksheets


       Arabic Vocabulary Builders    Arabic Games and Fun Sites    Arabic Dictionaries


       Sites for Arabic Beginners    Learn Arabic Abroad    Newspapers in Arabic


       Arabic Country Links    Saudi Links    Arabic Cultures    Arabic for Children

       Arabic Food and Cuisine    Search Engines for Arabic    Helpful Miscellaneous Sites


      
    Arabic Script Sites    Arabic Pen Pals    The Middle East


  • Arabic Quizzes & Trivia

  • Google Translator / One of the best
    A Webmaster Choice Site

       Arabic Teacher Hints, Advice and Teaching Tips




    Professor Polyglot


    I am here to teach you Arabic

    1 - Wahid 2 - Ithnaan 3 -Thalaatha 4 - Arba'a 5 - Khamsaz
    6 - Sitta 7 - Sab'a 8 - Thamania 9 - Tiss'a 10 - 'Ashra





  • Professor Emeritus
    University of Northern Iowa
    USA



    February 10, 2022



    Students learning Arabic
    It is your attitude and NOT your aptitude
    that determines your altitude.



    Translator Sites: English -> Arabic / Arabic -> English





  • 143 Fun Activities for the Arabic Classroom
    They all work well as as I have used each of them for 35 years


  • The 143 activities website above translated into Arabic


    Call on me as I know the answer in Arabic.


  • Jim's Multilanguage Homepage for 32 languages

    Jim's Multilanguage Homepage in Arabic ... enjoy!


    I love to speak Arabic


    Want to know the exact population of Saudi Arabia today?

    Here is where you find out.
    And it is minute by minute. Watch the stats change.










    They dug up 100 Core Words in Arabic for you.
  • And here they are
    See how many you already know.


  • GOOGLE News in Arabic

  • Let's Learn Arabic
    Greetings Pronouns Questions Directions Basics and Counting
  • Learn the Arabic Language
  • The Madrasah At-Tayyibah School of Arabic
    The school is situated at the Gatesville mosque in Cape Town South Africa. The focus is to teach Arabic and espescially the understanding of the Noble Quran.

    Our Arabic teacher has lots of CLASS

    Now we go for a visit to Abu Dhabi via YouTube.
  • A trip to Abu Dhabi

  • Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Vacation Travel Video Guide

  • Beautiful Abu Dhabi

  • Here we pay a another visit to Abu Dhabi


    Arabic Game Sites

  • Play Games in Arabic
  • Google lists additional games in Arabic
  • Best Flash Arabic Language Games

  • Arabic Alphabet - Game Information
  • Arabic Games and Activities
    Fun games and activities to help you or your child learn the Arabic language.


    Arabic For Children


  • Syraj: Arabic Children's Books and more here
    Syraj is an online Children's Arabic language bookstore focused on Arabic literacy and bilingual education.

  • Arabic Books
    A wide variety of books for children in Arabic.
  • Arabic for Kids
  • Arabic Children's Books, Songs for Children, Baby Einstein DVDs, etc.
  • Children's songs from Egypt
  • Arabic Children's Books

  • Arabic Language Letter Song
    This is the traditional ABCDEFG alphabet song in Arabic.
  • Fun with Arabic
    FUN WITH ARABIC is as an online program that teaches the basics of the Arabic language. With no lengthy introductions or linguistic complications, this program will walk you through the Arabic alphabet in a fun and easy way.
  • Surface Languages Arabic Homepage
    Many Arabic phrases complete with sound/a new discovery


  • Learn Easy Arabic Free Online here...
    Start Learning Modern Standard Arabic Today

  • Fun With Arabic
    FUN WITH ARABIC is as an online program that teaches the basics of the Arabic language. With no lengthy introductions or linguistic complications, this program will walk you through the Arabic alphabet in a fun and easy way.


    Arabic Verb Sites
    Time learn some new ones


  • Arabic Verbs
    If you're trying to learn Arabic Verbs you will find some useful resources including a course about Verbs in the present past and future tense... to help you with your Arabic grammar.
  • Arabic Verbs on Wikipedia
  • Verb conjugations for standard and Egyptian Arabic
  • Arabic Verb Forms




    Miscellaneous Sites





  • Arabic Language Directory
    Provides resources on Arabic language related websites around the world.
  • Parler Arabe Morocain
    A propos de SpeakMoroccan
  • Learn Arabic Online For Free
    I established this web site to help my students learning the Arabic language as a second language and to post our community cultural activities online / Kahled
    Start to learn Arabic free immediately (no registration required!)
  • Jim's Popular Spanish Website in Arabic
  • Jim's Popular French Website in Arabic
  • Free Arabic Language Course/Midinah Arabic


    Arabic Proficiency Testing Sites


  • GOOGLE'S Listing of Arabic Testing Sites




  • Yamli Arabic Search Engine
  • Yahoo's List of Arabic Search Engines
  • Bings's Listing of Arabic Search Engines

  • Conversational Arabic Survival Phrases
  • Fluent Future/multiple Arabic language videos
    Fluentfuture is a community-based language exchange platform. You can learn languages for free
  • Speak7 Arabic for Free Online Here
  • Multiple Links for Learning Arabic
    From OMNIGLOT / A rich site!
  • neelwafurat / Online Arabic Bookstore
  • Learn Arabic via Wikibooks

  • Arabic Video Lesson #1
  • Arabic-Language
  • Learning the Arabic alphabet with ease
  • Arabic Alphabets / (click on letters to listen to pronunciation)
  • Learn writing, numbers, and more here
  • A Game for Writing Arabic Letters w/sound
  • Learn the Arabic Writing System here
    Here you will find a selection of videos teaching you how to write the letters of the Arabic alphabet.
  • Arabic Alphabet
  • 126 New Arabic Sites
  • Top Ten Rated Sites
  • Arabic Language and Culture
    Multiple helpful sites here...
  • L-Lingo for Arabic
    Its free and it runs on your browser


    Obey signs like this one


    "Fear those who are afraid of you"


    Arabic for Beginners

  • Learn Arabic Free - A Course for Beginners
    For beginners in a simple, clear fashion.

  • The Arabic Language for Beginners
  • Arabic Classes for Beginners
  • Let's Learn Some Arabic
  • Learn Arabic Online
  • Learn Arabic Online w/ Arab Academy
  • 10 Free Arabic Lessons from L-CEPS

    Learning the Arabic Vocabulary is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Arabic language.


  • Arabic for Beginners from BlogSpot
    This blog will maintain discussions in learning Arabic communication skills for beginners. We will propose situations and encourage others to participate in order to give the exact Arabic phrases or sentences that reflex them. All the internet community are welcomed! Visit our main site: arabic.50webs.com

  • Arabic for Beginners on YouTube
  • Madinah Arabic Beginner Language and Reading Courses
    This website has two courses for learning the Arabic language. One is an Arabic Reading Course and the other is an Arabic Language Course. Both are free and have about 20 lessons for beginners learning the language.



    Arabic Grammar Sites



  • Arabic Grammar on Wikipedia
  • Arabic Grammar Tutorials


  • Free Video Tutorials/Textbooks
    Start to learn arabic for free immediately (no registration required) with our free course to recognize, read and write The Arabic Letters and Vowels, then move on to our Arabic Grammar series.
  • My Arabic Website
    I established this website to help students in my community learning the Arabic language as a second language and to post our community cultural activities online.. Serving my community, immigrants, schools, universities and others who are interested in learning Arabic and studying Arabic and Islamic cultures.
    A loaded site: lessons, grammar, literature, poetry, the arts and more.
  • Learn Arabic
    I would like to welcome you to the Arabic lessons. I'm here to help you learn Arabic, by going step by step, all the lessons contain audio and are all offered for free. We will learn the alphabet together. We will also review some simple grammar rules, practice common phrases, and we will have fun memorizing many important vocabulary lists, and everything else that you see below.
  • Arabic Grammar from Answers.com


  • Shariah Program
    Keepers of Classical Arabic and learn Arabic like a scholar.

  • Why Arabic is so hard
    By Robert Lane Greene
  • Arab Magic Carpet
    ArabNet's directory of web resources relevant to Arabs and anyone interested in Arab affairs
  • BBC Arabic
  • Wikipedia on the Arabic language
  • History of the Arab World
    According to Wikipedia
  • Arabic-English Dictionary
    Type an Arabic word you want to look up using the Arabic-English
    dictionary in the above search field and click translate.
  • Access the online Arabic dictionary @ Arabs Gate
  • WordReference Dictionary for Arabic
  • Arab American National Museum Site



  • More useful travel phrases
  • Numbers, days, months and colors
  • Wikipedia's listing of Islamic terms
  • Language help from Wannalearn
  • Learn Arabic for Free Here...
  • Help from GOOGLE for phrases and expressions in Arabic

    Saudi Links

  • Saudi Arabia - Land of Peace via YouTube

  • Saudi Net Links
    Trade and business information and links to Saudi Arabia, Arabian Gulf and Middle East area

  • Saudi Arabian Information Resource
    Fact Files on many subjects

  • An online quiz in transliterated Arabic

  • Fairuz Online
    The one site for everything Fairuz

  • Arabic Traditional Music
    Grab a book or find a comfortable chair and enjoy an hour of some great music.
  • Arabic Music and Arabic Songs

  • Maps of the Middle East

  • Learn to Read Arabic
  • Google's list of arabic phrases







    Anger begins with madness, but ends in regret.
    An old Arabic Proverb


    Arabic Sounds. Now practice each of them



    I can count from 1 to 20 in Arabic
  • Now hear it on YouTube


  • Nothing is gained without sacrifice



    I am stirring up vocabulary words in Arabic.

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    Shrek can leap over Donkey in 31 languages
  • ==>Jim's 31 Different Languages Homepage

    And with this super site dozens more.










  • Best Arabic Websites
    Note that Google rates this site #2. That is special, so enjoy.

  • The Best Websites to Learn Arabic Online by Superprof

  • Arabic for beginners: First 6 Steps

  • How to introduce yourself in Arabic. A video.

  • Learn Arabic in 90 Minutes - All the Arabic Basics You Need

  • Learn Arabic 5 minutes a day. For free. Duolingo

  • Learn Arabic online for free with Mondly

  • Best websites of learn Arabic

  • Best Arabic Music Ever from YouTube

  • 24 Best Free Websites To Learn Arabic Language

  • List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States

  • Best Views in the World Worth Traveling for

  • The Latest Headline News from Arab Countries

  • NDTV News from Arab Countries

  • If I started to learn Arabic again, this is how I would do it

  • Learning Arabic online. Lots of options here. Check them all out.

  • Arabic World Heritage Sites - many photos

  • 88 Arabic Proverbs: Original Arabic and English Translations

  • A drone view of the Giza Pyramids

  • How the Pyramids were built

  • The Middle East From Above

  • An Aerial View of Cairo

  • The Great Pyramids of Egypt. Hidden Secrets

  • Things Not to Miss in Egypt via YouTube

  • Egypt via Lonely Planet on YouTube

  • Christian The Lion - Reunited - From "The View"
    Don't overlook this one. It's an animal history with an awesome ending.

  • Top Ten Arab National Anthems

  • Visit Cairo, Egypt: Things to do in Cairo

  • An Aerial View of Algeria


  • Learn Arabic in Morocco

  • Morocco - Aerial Showreel

  • A helicopter view of Mecca

  • A helicopter flyover Dubai

  • Dubai Billionaires and Their Luxury Homes and Toys

  • Furious World Tour | Marrakesh, Morocco | a video

  • The 10 Most Visited Arab Countries | a video

  • A video tour of Egypt

  • The Top 15 Most Beautiful Cities in the Arab World

  • Several games for you to play from PurposeGames

  • Arabic Tongue Twisters from Google

  • Learn all about Arabic culture here

  • Learn Arabic Online For Free via Google

  • Learn Arabic Online For Free via Google

  • Arab News from all over the world today


  • Word Hippo
    What's the word for HOUSE in Arabic? Input the word and it will find it for you. Great new link.

  • Abu Dhabi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Travel Guide

  • Egypt Travel Guide

  • Travel Guide to Doha, Qatar

  • Learn Arabic in Morocco at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez

  • An Arabic Quiz to check your proficiency
    Good luck and enjoy the experience.

  • Arabic Keyboards
    Enjoy typing in Arabic on this series of keyboards.

  • The names of common foods in Arabic

  • How to introduce yourself in Arabic

  • 200 Arabic - English Sentences

  • 33 Common Expressions in Arabic

  • Animal names in Arabic

  • Arabic Ten Verb Forms Interactive Sound Chart
    If you have been studying Arabic for a while you are probably aware that there are 10 main forms of verbs in the in the Arabic language. Each of these forms have letters and vowels that are added to the root form which alters the meaning of the root verb in variety of different ways. By Prof. Ghada Osman - San Diego State University

  • The Language Gulper
    A neat NEW find with detailed descriptions of the main languages of the world in a clear, concise way. Its scope is not only living languages but also ancient ones of historical or cultural importance. So far, "The Language Gulper" includes 131 individual language pages, 40 about families and branches and 8 about linguistic areas. These two have an insatiable appetite for ancient and modern tongues. 2013 Alejandro Gutman and Beatriz Avanzati


  • My Languages
    Dozens of great Arabic vocabulary builders. Many with sound. This is one great NEW FIND.

  • Take a Quiz on Saudi Arabia
    Just how much do you really know about the country? Find out here. It's an introduction to the history, politics, and religious affairs of The Kingdom.
  • Explore Saudi Arabia via beautiful photos
    You can even choose which part of the country you want to explore. Enjoy.
  • Explore Egypt via beautiful photos>
    You can even choose which part of Russia you want to explore. Enjoy.
  • Practice Arab Vocabulary Here
    Within each category, place your cursor over an image to hear it pronounced aloud.



  • 10 Best Arabic Websites
  • Online Arabic Courses


  • Explore The United Arab Emirates with Touropia

  • Arabic Links
    Many helpful sites to help you learn Arabic by Languages on the Web.


    360 Cities
    A really cool site that takes you all over the world to view close up and with 360 degree views with just your Mouse.

  • Learn Lebanese Arabic Through English
    Videos with practical Lebanese Arabic phrases for everyday use.

  • Salwa Publishers
    Specializes in Arabic picture books for children, for ages ranging from newborns to 13 years old. Salwa Publishers has recently expanded into the digital electronic media by producing Applications, ebooks, interactive CDs, DVDs, and audio books.

  • LAFLWSP
    LAFLWSP is an abbreviation of Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language With a Studied Plan. This site offers a series of eighteen main lessons and unlimited complementary lessons are teaching Arabic language for free & it's dedicated to non-native Arabic speaker with new, easy & well-organized style.



  • Translate English to Arabic words easily here
    Find the Arabic translation of words and phrases in the English-Arabic dictionary by using the provided search field. You can also search for translations in Arabic to find the corresponding English translation. A great aid for learners.
  • Arabic-English dictionary
    Type an Arabic word you want to look up using the Arabic-English dictionary in the above search field and click translate.
  • Learn Arabic Online for Free
    Select the phrases that you want to learn from the list on the right. These cover a wide variety of Arabic topics, including the numbers in Arabic, Arabic days, Arabic greetings and the months in Arabic.
    This is one terrific new find. You can spend hours here learning words, phrases and practicing your new language skills.


    Arabic Speaking Countries

    "Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone"

  • Arabic speaking countries/info on each
  • Wikipedia's Arab World
  • Aneki's Info on each Arab Speaking Country
  • Countries Where Arabic Is The Official Language
    List of countries, nations and states with an official language of Arabic. List of Arabic speaking countries or countries where Arabic is spoken can also include republics with multiple official languages. Arabic speaking nations or countries where the official language is Arabic is listed in alphabetical.
  • Images of Arab Speaking Countries
  • Wikipedia Pages in category "Arabic-speaking countries"


    Arab Culture & Customs

  • Facts on Arabic Culture
    Arabic culture is a broad term that encompasses the similar practices and overlapping histories of a people defined as "Arabic"; yet within this people is a large array of distinct societies with regional practices, beliefs and dialects.

  • Arab Culture
    Arab culture refers to the culture in the countries in which the official language is Arabic(although the Arabic language in some of them is the language of minority), and the west officials and scholars used to call them "Arab countries" of West Asia and North Africa, from Morocco to the Persian Gulf.
  • Arab Culture via araboo
  • Arab Culture as defined by the Free Dictionary
  • Arabic Culture & Customs
    Arab culture and customs are not monolithic. Arabs follow different faiths, live in countries all over the world and belong to different types of groups and societies.
  • Arabic Cultural Awareness
    58 fact sheets via a pdf file.
  • All about Arab people
  • Introduction to the Arab Culture and Civilization
    The Arab Culture and Civilization website was originally sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) as a collaborative effort between many scholars, technologists, and institutions, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


  • Arabic Language Tutorials form Shariah Program
  • The Arabic Language Tutorial

  • Online Arabic Tutorial



    Arabic Dictionaries


  • English-Arabic Dictionary
    A Translator Site as well.

  • A Bilingual Dictionary from ECTACO
    You are a very welcome visitor here, at English - Arabic Online Dictionary! Please have a try using our extensive language databases. We have designed these pages so that you can easily get instant back translations, for more complete understanding. You provide the words - we do the translating! The power of having online dictionaries at your fingertips feels good, so enjoy the experience!

    "Fear can make a donkey attack a lion"


  • Arabic News Channel


    Arabic Teacher Sites



  • The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
    Email - info@aataweb.org
    To reach Elizabeth M. Bergman, Executive Director, directly, email - admin@aataweb.org

  • Arabic Online
    ArabicOnline.EU is an EU-funded project to provide comprehensive language learning resources for Modern Standard Arabic. Hayya Bina

    Arabic Newspapers and Magazines

  • A master list of Arabic Media


  • Arab News
  • Araboo Listing of Arab Newspapers
  • Wikipedia's List of Arab newspapers

  • Arab Times
    The largest Arab-American On-Line e-newspaper in the United States.
  • Arab Times/English edition available as well
  • BBC Middle East News Page
  • Arabic Magazines
  • Al Watan Al Arabi Magazine
  • Arabian Magazines
    Arabian Magazines Group, a division of CG Arabia (WLL), is the fastest growing magazine publisher in the Arabian Gulf.



  • Picks of the month- Top 10 Arabic Sites
    The newest and most popular Arab websites


    Read Arabic Script

  • Learn to Read Arabic
    Arabic is the language of a large part of our planet . It is one of the permanent languages of the UN. These are a few very basic learn to read the alphabet lessons.


    God can see a black ant walk on a black
    stone in a black night.

  • Read Arabic Today
    This blog has been developed for the benefit of anyone who would like to be able to read the Arabic Script.
  • Arabic script
    The Arabic script is an alphabet in which each written symbol represents a single sound. It is Semitic and, thus, a near relative of the Hebrew alphabet but also historically related to the Roman alphabet.
  • Arabic Alphabet
  • Arabic Script
  • Arabic Genie on Arabic Script


    The Middle East

  • A Map of the Middle East

  • Videos of Countries of the Middle East
  • What is the Middle East
  • Middle East Countries at a glance

  • Happy Child Arabic Worksheets
    Welcome to the Arabic pages at Project HappyChild. Our free Arabic worksheets currently receive over two million page views per year. We've aimed to make Arabic *easier* to learn, because all the vocabulary is grouped by "themes". Whatever you're looking for, you should find it here!
  • My Arabic Website
    I established this web site to help students in my community learning the Arabic language as a second language and to post our community cultural activities online..Serving my community, immigrants, schools, universities and others who are interested in learning Arabic and studying Arabic and Islamic cultures.
  • Arabic Language - Learning & Teaching Modern Arabic
    Learning Arabic, Arabic courses, Arabic Language related online resources
    Many helpful sites for learning the language here.
  • The Road to Morocco on YouTube | Video
  • Learn Arabic via YouTube
    4,220 results!
  • A Great Map of Interactive Middle East
    A closeup view of all portions of the Middle East
    This source will let you explore 7 million world places.

  • Arabic Complete
    Community Power Learning - Full of FREE language learning materials with AUDIO.



    Arabic Food and Cuisine

  • The Arab Cuisine

  • Cooks Arabic Food
  • Arabic Food Info
  • Find Good Arabic Food Restaurants
  • Arabic Food: Lesson 1
  • Lebanese Food
  • How to say basic food names in Arabic
  • Middle Eastern Food and Culture 101
  • Must try Arabic foods
  • Arab Cuisine from various countries

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    Senior Citizen Travel


    Jim Becker's Travel Websites





    Can we meet there?



  • TwoFour54
    twofour54 - the arabic media content creation community in abu dhabi
  • CNN in Arabic
  • Fun with the Arabic alphabet
    Learn the alphabet with lots of color/well done too.

  • Learn Arabic | Free Language

  • Fun with the Arabic alphabet
  • MANY ADDITIONAL TRANSLATOR SITES HERE
    Tips for Learning Another Language
    From ie language / a great site

  • Arabic Pen Pals

  • Arabic, Egyptian Language Pen Pals (Pen Friends)
    500 Pals waiting for a response.
  • Inter Pals
    A language exchange with a Arabic,

    Egyptian language pen pal is an excellent way to make
    a Arabic, Egyptian-speaking friend, learn about the culture and
    improve your Arabic, Egyptian language skills.

  • Arab News

  • Read Arabic news from the BBC
  • Al Jazeera News - Front Page (English version)
    All the news from arab-speaking countries
  • Al Jazeera Magazine
  • The latest news in Arabic





  • Learn the Alphabet On Line
  • Arabic Language - Learning & Teaching Modern Arabic
  • The Art of Arabic Calligraphy
  • Help with pronunciation of Arabic names


    "We learn very little from our successes,
    but an awful lot from our failures"


    Now figure out all these letters

  • Read all about the Lost Empire above right here


  • I hope you learned lots of Arabic today. Plan to come back tomorrow. Your Webmaster, Jim Becker



    Here is a recent discovery that will thrill most folks interested in world languages.
    Mama Lisa's World
    HERE ARE SOME KIDS SONGS FROM EGYPT







    A SUPER TRANSLATOR SITE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER

    English to Arabic or Arabic to English


    Google Translations Services
    My favorite translator site. Good translations in a variety of languages.
    I use this one all the time. Your webmaster - jeb



    Do you have a favorite one?





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    This Bosnian Pine above is over 1,000 years old


    "Experiences are the glasses of the mind"

    Arabic Teacher hints, advice and tips:

    I know from my own experience that being on a continual path of self-improvement is an absolute necessity toward be a good teacher. Hang out with other educators that you admire. Watch them closely and learn from them. Imitation is the greatest compliment! Join your Arabic language association (AATA - http://www.aataweb.org) plus two foreign language teacher associations (state and national: ACTFL- (http://www.actfl.org) and attend their annual meetings on a regular basis. Get involved anyway you can with each. Rub noses with people at the TOP. Get to know the officers personally. Keep in contact with them. Use these association offerings, suggestions and resources.

    American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic literature. The information available here is a sampling of the materials available to AATA members. For information on joining, please click here, or follow the navigation links to the left.

    Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always loved is "If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot." All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your Arabic language students.

    Keep your classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 78 now, but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their shoes." Don't forget to have FUN doing it. (See Below)


    Jim Becker BA, Cornell College (Iowa), MA, La Sorbonne (Paris), PhD-AbD, The Ohio State University (Foreign Language Education)

    Fun Learning Games and Fun Activities for the Arabic Classroom
    A wide array of proven fun games and learning activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
    35 years of classroom experience for students and their teachers to enjoy.



    Some good hints for learning Arabic:

    Those who attempt to learn Arabic are probably familiar with the specific challenges associated with learning this language. One of the greatest challenges that students of Arabic are faced with has to do with the script. The Arabic language has an alphabet that contains 28 letters. Most students find that it does not take long to learn the Arabic alphabet. However, each letter has four different forms. The form that is used depends on whether the letter comes at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Learning the different letter variations can be a challenge for students. Another characteristic of Arabic that may confound students at first has to do with how books are written and read. In Arabic, books are read from the right to the left. When a book is opened, it is opened from the left.

    One of the greatest challenges that most students face as the learn Arabic is the fact that most vowels are not used when writing. In beginning textbooks, the missing vowels are indicated by little marks that are placed above and below the words. However, more advanced texts and most reading materials do not contain these helping marks. Yet another challenge involves the special "noises" that one must learn in the study of Arabic. Learning Arabic involves learning many new sounds that are not used by most Westerners. Perhaps the most infamous of these is the sound that is described as emitting air from the back of your throat, as if trying to put out a candle by blowing air from the throat. This sound can be difficult for new students to learn and to use fluidly during conversation.
    Finally, learning new vocabulary poses a special challenge for those who seek to learn Arabic. For Westerners, studying European languages seems easier for students because they tend to recognized vocabulary words. The language "feels" more familiar, and thus does not seem to represent such a challenge. Although there are special challenges to learning Arabic, the effort is definitely worth it.

    Arabic is the language of a large part of our planet. It is the main language in 22 countries, spoken by more than 250 million people. It is also the second language in many Islamic countries because it is considered the spiritual language of Islam -one of the world's major religions- (we're talking here about more than 1 billion people). It is one of the permanent languages in the United Nations. Another reason is that Arabic is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and it is the origin of many languages, in fact there is a theory that says "Arabic is the origin of languages" and those who adopt this theory depend on the fact that Arabs are able to pronounce any sound in any language in the world very easily, on the other hand lots of non-Arabs have a very hard time pronouncing some Arabic letters which are not available in their native language.

    Source:

  • Social studies site


  • Arabic Language Course (Fadi's Free Arabic Language Tutorial) - Introduction
  • Lesson 1 - Arabic Language Course - the Alphabet
    See portions of this program below...
  • Why should you learn Arabic?

    Arabic is the language of a large part of our planet. Whether you are interested in learning Arabic for educational or cultural reasons or simply because you want to impress a friend or have a tattoo of your name in Arabic, it is easier than you may think. It is the official language in 22 countries, spoken by more than 250 million people. It is also the second language in many Islamic countries because It is considered the spiritual language of Islam -one of the world's major religions- (we're talking here about more than 1 billion people). It is one of the permanent languages in the United Nations.

    Another reason is that Arabic is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and it is the origin of many languages. It has heavily influenced languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Hindustani, Turkish, Malay, Urdu, Indonesian, Kurdish, Pashto, Swahili, Berber, Bengali and many others. Arguably it is said that Arabic is one key origin of modern day languages. An indication of this is the fact that most Arabic native speakers are easily able to pronounce almost any sound in any language in the world, on the other hand many non-Arabic natives have a hard time pronouncing some Arabic letters and sounds which are not available in their native languages (for example the letter Dhad in Arabic is not used in any other language in the world, and the Arabic language is sometimes called the language of the Dhad).

    For thousands of years minor changes were made to the Arabic language and it was appropriate for every era throughout the countless civilizations that used it as their native language. In fact, Arabic has a great influence in most of the languages in our present times. Maybe, the most obvious contribution of Arabic is developing and passing on the "Arabic numerals" (0,1,2,3..) to humanity, not to mention the numerous words with Arabic origins which are used today in most languages (Algorithm, Algebra, Alcohol, Coffee, Zero, Sugar and the list goes on.) Arabic was the international language of science, mathematics, culture, and philosophy during the Middle Ages. Its contribution to the Western civilization as an infrastructure for development of science and medicine is enormous.

    Why did it stay alive through thousands of years when other languages didn't?
    The main reason for that is that Arabic is a literary language and the liturgical language of Islam and the Qur'an, and that kept it the main language through the 1400+ years of the Islamic civilization.





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