Is it to address someone? Is it used in a different context as well ?

hello!! I (19 years old) am Lebanese but have basically lived in the USA my whole life. Despite being first generation, my parents didn’t really teach me Arabic growing up.

Now, I can understand most of it (mostly the Levantine dialects) but I struggle a lot with speaking.

I am not sure if this would the right subreddit, but I’m looking for people relatively close to my age who would like to practice with me, especially through speaking and just friends in general for if I go back to visit

مَرْحَبًا

أنا أَبْحَثُ الصَّدِيقَةَ

أنا أُريدُ أنْ أَتَكَلَّمَ بالْعَرَبِيَّةِ

أنا أَدْرُسُ بالعربية ١ شَهْر في المدرسة على الْإِنْتِرْنِتِ

أنا أتَحَرَّجُ أنْ أكْتُبَ قَلِيلًا في هَذِهِ المدرسة

(هُنَاكَ تَلَامِيذُ كَثِيرًا)

أدْرُسُ الفُصْحَى

Hi everyone!
I am looking for someone I could practice my spoken and written Arabic with. I am learning sort of a mix between MSA and Levantine, and some Gulf expressions as well, so really any background would be great. This is just for conversation and fun, because I love languages.

I am Mexican, so if anyone would like to do a language exchange, I am also down for that.

Thank you!!!

Hey everyone...

I'm an indie developer working on PogoPocalypse: Canine Clash and I'm looking for feedback on the Arabic translations in my game.

I don't speak Arabic myself so I'd love to get some input from native Arabic speakers to make sure the translations are correct, natural and easy to understand.

I've included a few screenshots showing the Arabic text in the game. If you spot anything that sounds strange, incorrect or could be phrased better, I'd really appreciate your suggestions!

The UAE flag is currently used for the Arabic language option in my game's settingsso I'm also curious to hear your thoughts on whether the translations work well for Arabic-speaking players in general.

Thanks for helping this poor indie dev improve their game...

After two intensive years of learning Fusha, I took a year off. My reading and listening comprehension are still pretty good, but my speaking has gotten rusty. I hesitate a lot and often translate from French in my head.

Living in the West makes it hard to stay consistent when there's no Arabic around you. My goal is to understand the Quran and follow religious classes, so I want to rebuild my daily habit.

For those who've maintained Fusha for years outside Arabic-speaking countries, what does your daily 30-minute routine look like? How do you stay consistent when motivation is low?

I've also know apps like Takalam: Learn Arabic really useful for understanding Arabic and getting my daily dose of practice through stories, interactive vocabulary and flashcards. Have any of you tried it?

Seen in East Tennessee…I think it’s Arabic but I’m wondering what it says

As an arabic tutor and also living in saudi for a long time having saudi friends,

Ask me your questions and doubts lemme see if I can help out...

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السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

My name is Mustafa. I'm an Egyptian Qur’an teacher with an Al-Azhar background and an Ijazah in Qur’an recitation, with 4 years of teaching experience.

I offer online one-to-one lessons for children and adults, including students growing up in non-Arabic-speaking environments.

My lessons include:

\- Qur’an reading and recitation

\- Tajweed rules and practical application

\- Qur’an memorisation and revision

\- Tajweed texts (Mutun), including Tuhfat al-Atfal

\- Arabic for non-native speakers

I teach in both English and Arabic, and I adapt lessons to each student's age, level, and learning goals. My aim is to help students build confidence in their recitation and develop a stronger connection with the Qur’an.

I'm currently accepting new students and offer a free trial lesson so we can discuss your child's or your own learning needs.

If you're looking for a Qur’an teacher for your family, or know someone who is, feel free to send me a message or share this post. I'd really appreciate your support.

May Allah bless our children with the love of the Qur’an and make it a source of guidance and light in their lives. Ameen.

Jazakum Allahu Khairan!

Hey y’all, 24M here starting to learn Egyptian arabic. Would love to learn with someone and help each other learn too. Let me know if your interested

Hi ya جماعة

I'm really excited to announce that I opened the doors for the beginners course which will be live with me across 2 months with other like-minded learners in a supporting group where I'll help you to learn the dialect and be able to speak it from your first month. If you're serious enough and wants to set a non-negotiable time to learn it then this is your chance.

All the details in the link, if you're into it don't miss this opportunity. It's my first time I make it live and not sure if I'll do it again or not.

If you have any questions or just wonder about something then go ahead and ask I'll answer it all.

Yalla don't wait too much, make a decision and let's go on. 😃

Hello community,

Is there anyone who speaks Najdi willing to help me (English speaker) translate + speak a phew phrases?

Assalamu alaikum. I’m a solo developer from Kazakhstan. Every reading course I looked at was a textbook or a video playlist: nothing that makes you practice every day.

So I built one in the Duolingo pattern: a lesson path, short five-minute lessons, timed drills, a streak, a daily goal, a reminder. You read real Quranic words in the first lessons, and over unit 1 you unlock the words of Surah al-Ikhlas one by one until you can read the whole surah letter by letter. Unit 2 is letter shapes inside words and joined reading.

It’s called Dunuu, iOS only for now, unit 1 is free: https://apps.apple.com/kz/app/id6799449137

I’d honestly rather have criticism than praise: what’s missing, what would stop you from using it, what Duolingo does that this doesn’t.

More Palestinian Arabic with audio: https://tfaddalu.com

Telling an Arab friend "You have a good heart" is a beautiful compliment ❤ Accidentally saying "You have a good dog" is just confusing 😂

Looking for language exchange partners to practice conversational Arabic (I'm starting from scratch!) and brush up on my very rusty Turkish.

I'm fluent in English with a North American accent and would be happy to help you improve your English in return.

If you're interested in practicing together, feel free to send me a DM!

i need to vent a bit and see if anyone else here has hit this exact brick wall, because i feel like I’m going insane.

I moved to Egypt a year ago specifically to study Arabic. My main goal as a Muslim is to become fluent in Fusha so I can understand the Quran deeply, read classical Islamic books without relying on translations, and actually articulate my thoughts.

Fast forward 12 months: On paper, I’m killing it. I can dissect complex grammar, identify advanced Sarf patterns, and I regularly get high scores on written exam papers. My listening used to be terrible, but I started watching cartoons in Fusha and listened to audio until my comprehension skyrocketed.

The problem? When it comes to actually speaking, it’s like my mouth gets clogged with cement.

The theory is completely locked in my head, but the execution is zero. Whenever I try to formulate a spoken sentence in real-time, my brain goes into overdrive trying to calculate case endings, root conjugations, and sentence structures all at once. By the time I figure out the correct grammar in my head, the moment is gone.

I thought moving to Cairo would force me to speak daily, but real life hit. Almost nobody here speaks Fusha in daily life, it’s all Ammiyya (Egyptian dialect). So I ended up doing literally everything except actually speaking Fusha out loud.

I’m so fed up with doing grammar drills in silence that I’m planning to build my own app specifically for this—something that acts like a private Fusha voice coach so you can practice speaking out loud anytime, anywhere, and get called out on your repeated grammar mistakes without feeling embarrassed in front of a real teacher or local.

Before I spend weeks building this out, I need some reality check feedback from people in the trenches.

For those studying Fusha/MSA: Do you also get that "clogged mouth" feeling where your written Arabic is years ahead of your spoken Arabic?

What is the ONE specific thing that makes you freeze up most when trying to speak Fusha out loud? (Is it calculating I'rab/case endings, picking the right verb form, or just sheer fear of making embarrassing mistakes?)

Would love to hear how you guys are dealing with the spoken Fusha bottleneck.

Yo
Anybody know any good people that teach (egyptian) Arabic in or near London.
I have no prior experience, yes I’m mad.

Cheers

i want to learn modern standard arabic, i can already read it, but dont understand the words etc & cant speak it.
Any tips on how to learn and improve the reading, writing & speaking. Thanks

My main goal for learning Arabic is to be able to communicate with people naturally for my career. I want to at least be able to hold a conversation, to be friendly and build rapport with people, even if I need to use an interpreter for most things.

I’m very early career but don’t have much time, so I’m hoping to be able to do half an hour to 45mins of study a day.

I’m not sure whether to start with Levantine or MSA. On one hand, Levantine is more helpful for my overall goal of communicating with people naturally. On the other, I don’t know anyone who speaks Arabic so I couldn’t practice this, and I could easily get more exposure to MSA through the news etc. there seems to be more resources for MSA too.

Ideally I’ll end up knowing both, but with limited time I can’t assume that this would be the case! I think learning both at the same time would be confusing. Which would you recommend I start with? And are there any particular methods or resources you would suggest for absolute beginners?

Some of you saw this when I posted it here a few months ago, and the response was really kind. The app has grown a lot since then, so here is a proper update.

What it is

Talking Cards is a picture-card app. Tap a picture and you see the word with full tashkeel and hear it spoken. I built it for children who are learning to talk, but the same things that help a child (a clear picture, the written word, the sound, again and again) help a beginner too. A few learners used it as a picture dictionary after my last post, which is why I am sharing it here again.

The Arabic

• Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى). Every word is fully vowelled, so you always know how it is read.

• 1,742 words in 69 everyday categories: food, family, feelings, home, places, animals, clothes, school, and now space.

• Every word has its own picture and its own audio clip.

• 73 illustrated storybooks written in Arabic, read aloud. Tap any word in a story to hear it on its own.

• A full right-to-left interface when the app is in Arabic.

It builds real Arabic sentences

There is a sentence board: tap cards one after another and the app turns them into a correct sentence, then says it. It does not just read the words in a row. It conjugates the verb, adds the pronoun, and handles tense and negation. For example, tapping not + eat + tomorrow gives:

لَنْ آكُلَ غَدًا (I won't eat tomorrow)

For a learner, it is a quick way to see how a verb changes, without opening a grammar table.

Six languages, one tap

The app speaks English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Turkish, and Nepali. Each language has its own grammar rules, so the sentences come out right in each one, not word-for-word translations.

When you switch languages, every picture stays exactly where it was. So you can open a category in Arabic, switch to English (or Spanish, French, Turkish, or Nepali) to check a word, and switch back without losing your place. There is also a bilingual mode for learning two languages side by side.

The storybooks are written in all six languages too. You can read the same story in English first and then in Arabic.

Letters and spelling

Type to Talk is a big Arabic keyboard that reads every letter and word aloud, with picture hints. There are also small games for practice: spell a word (the keys light up in order), find a letter, and copy a line.

The details

• 194 words are free forever.

• A free week to try everything, then a one-time unlock. No subscription.

• No ads, no account, no tracking. It works offline.

Links

• iPhone / iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806662389

• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plapl.talkcards

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL3JTBB3

*THANK YOU