Resources to Learn Arabic!

Online course, videos, etc. to help you learn Arabic!

See companion post 'Why Learn Arabic' on the Diversivity Instagram!

"You live a new life for every new language you speak.  If you know only one language, you live only once."

‒ Czech proverb

Online ‘Courses

• FSI Arabic Courses (Created by the Foreign Service Institute - Free)

• Madinah Arabic (Free resource to learn the script, grammar, etc. a LOT of lessons are available!)

• Learn Arabic Online (So many tutorials!)

• This list of resources from St. Lawrence University

YouTube

• Channels:

• Arabic Pod Channel (Good for vocabulary not great for anything else really)

• Learn Arabic With Maha (Very engaging teacher - her series on learning the ‘alphabet’ is amazing)

• Imran Alawiye (Insane amount of videos and personally my favorite!)

• Videos:

• Langfocus - Arabic (About the history of the language) Influence on Spanish and Portuguese

Textbooks

*These are links to websites where you can download these textbooks in pdf form for free, I use all of these books myself and downloaded them at these websites. I’ve had no trouble with anything so far. :)*

• Mastering Arabic: The Complete Course for Beginners by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar (Review on Goodreads)

• Arabic: An Essential Grammar by Faruk Abu-Chacra (Review on Goodreads)

• Arabic Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Middle-Eastern Tales In Arabic and English by Hezi Brosh, Lutfi Mansur (Review on Goodreads)