Language Learning Resources

Aratools Arabic - English dictionary is an electronic dictionary available on the web, as an iPhone application and as a Windows and Mac OS X application

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) was founded in 1998 in Washington, DC to bridge the language gap between the Middle East and the West by monitoring, translating, and studying Arab, Iranian and Turkish media, schoolbooks, and religious sermons. This site has news video clips with English translations.

CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in the language(s) of the countries involved. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all non-English video clips. Topics include family, food, education, religious and cultural customs, work, art, sport, travel, and more.

Over 2500 native speakers pronouncing over 4000 words (audio clips).

Aswaat cArabiyya provides listening materials and accompanying activities that are intended for the various levels of proficiency from Novice to Superior. These listening materials have been selected from television stations throughout the Arab world and they treat a wide variety of topics and listening genres.

Funded by the US Department of Education, the materials of Read Arabic! were developed to provide online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language.

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

fluentfuture is a community-based language exchange platform. You can learn languages for free by using our database to make contact with members wishing to learn your language or you can choose to pay for lessons by a teacher accredited by the fluentfuture rating system for individual lessons.

"On this blog I take media that I find interesting and use it to teach Arabic. I mostly focus on the dialects, but there are MSA posts as well."

From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Online Arabic language course