Free Resources to Teach and Learn Arabic

Early Stage 1 – Stage 2

Animated storybooks

BookBox Arabic – A YouTube channel that hosts 6 AniBooks in Arabic. They are
animated storybooks, powered by Same Language Subtitling (SLS). SLS is a
scientifically tested method that helps improve reading skills and language learning
and has won many awards around the world.

Online games and activities

Hello World – A website that offers hundreds of free language learning games and
activities that cater to the way children learn best. The goal is to teach languages
using cognitive immersion and to keep the process fun in order to increase learning
potential.
Digital Dialects – This website offers a small collection of interactive games.
Polly Lingual – This website offers some fun games, exercises and beginner level
instruction with lessons that include text and audio.

Online dictionary

First Arabic Words by Oxford University Press – A language learning tool for children
that features over 400 words in Arabic. The interactive online interface allows you to
click on the pictures to hear the audio in Arabic along with the English translations.

Video lessons

Learn with Zakaria – A YouTube channel packed with educational videos that teach
children the alphabet, colours, shapes, names of animals, fruits, vegetables and
much more in Arabic. It features a number of playlists such as:
 Memory Card Game
 Learn Arabic for kids
 Read and write Arabic
 Arabic Alphabet for children
  Arabic Numbers for Kids
 Animals for kids
 Super Zakaria’s Adventure Season 1
 And many more…
Al Babyloni Kids – A YouTube channel which offers educational videos that teach
young children the alphabet, colours, shapes and numbers in Arabic.
Kids Tv Arabic – A YouTube channel which offers a variety of well-known children
songs translated into Arabic. It also includes videos covering numbers, the Arabic
alphabet and cartoon educational series such as “Bob, the Train”. All videos are in
Modern Standard Arabic.
Arabic blooms – A YouTube channel created by Radwa, a professional and certified
Arabic teacher from Egypt who is specialized in teaching Arabic as a second
language. It features a number of playlists such as:
 Arabic Phrases for Beginners
 Learn Arabic through short stories
 These videos provide narration without music and English subtitles
 Arabic Daily conversation practice
 How to tell the time in Arabic
 And more…

Stage 3

Video lessons

Easy Arabic – These YouTube videos are the work of a non-profit project which
uses light-hearted street interviews as a method to teach languages. Each video has
a topic and the host asks questions to native Arabic speakers on the street based on
the topic. Each video contains subtitles in both Arabic and English.
Learn Arabic with ArabicPod101.com – This YouTube channel appeals to all learning
stages (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Unlike most channels, ArabicPod101
publishes videos in a variety of Arabic dialects, including weekly videos in both
Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic. One of the great features this channel has is
bilingual subtitles. It features a number of playlists with more than 250 videos:
 Ask an Arabic Teacher
 Arabic Made Easy
 Arabic Listening Practice
 Arabic pronunciation
 Arabic Reading Practice for Beginners
 Absolute Beginner Arabic for Every Day
  Learn Arabic – Arabic Alphabet Made Easy
 Arabic learning Strategies and Tips
 And many more
Elementary Arabic I – This YouTube channel offers 19 videos in which Mervat
Ibrahim of Johnson County Community College in Kansas, teaches Arabic listening,
speaking, reading, and writing.
Edupedia World – The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very
comprehensive set of free Arabic language videos. The transcript of each video is
also available.

Online lessons
BBC Languages: Arabic – This website provides a lot of well-presented and
produced materials. All BBC language learning pages were “archived” a few years
back which means they are no longer adding new information or updating the pages.
However, you should have no problem accessing the existing information.
Al-Jazeera Learning Arabic – Al-Jazeera, a global news network that is owned by the
government of Qatar, focuses on teaching Arabic through this free language learning
site. They offer a lot of resources including lessons, a translator, a dictionary,
exercises, news articles and videos to facilitate learning Arabic.
Arabic Studio Course – Aimed at complete beginners with no knowledge of Arabic,
this simple but thorough course will teach you how to read and write the Arabic
script.
Goethe Verlag – This website offers 100 Arabic lessons for beginners, each with
words, phrases and corresponding audio files.
I Love Languages Arabic Lessons – This site provides 17 beginner Arabic lessons.
Supplementary resources include vocabulary, grammar tips, and phrases.
Arabic Reading Course – This simple course consists of 13 lessons which teach the
Arabic alphabet.

Arabic online keyboard

Arabic Keyboard – This site has a very handy Arabic transliteration keyboard which
allows those who do not have an Arabic keyboard on their computer to write and
search in Arabic.
Arabic Keyboard Online LEXILOGOS – Online keyboard to type a text with
the Arabic characters.
Online dictionaries

Lughatuna – This website provides 3 dictionaries: Classical Arabic Dictionary,

Egyptian Colloquial Dictionary, and Levantine Colloquial Dictionary. Users can
search by word, root or English-Arabic meaning.
Lisaan Masri Dictionary – Egyptian Arabic Dictionary.

Bad.La – This “language portal” boasts 44 dictionaries for 28 languages, as well as a

wealth of other language learning resources, such as helpful articles, games and
quizzes, verb conjugations and phrase books.

Pronunciation guides

Arabic alphabet – YouTube video that demonstrates correct pronunciation of the

Arabic alphabet showing correct position of the mouth and muscles in the oral cavity.
Forvo – This website helps with pronunciation as it allows you to listen to Arabic
words and phrases spoken by native speakers.

Verb conjugators

CoolJugator – A verb conjugator website. You can input verbs into the Cooljugator
bar in any form, tense or mood in both Arabic and English. The Arabic Cooljugator
can currently do around 6299 verbs.

Acon Arabic Conjugator – A web tool that applies Arabic grammar rules to
automatically conjugate verbs.
Verbix – Online Arabic verb conjugator.

Website that offers paid membership

Arabic Playground – a marketplace for Arabic Language educators to share, buy and
sell teaching resources. The website has a large selection of Arabic Worksheets,
Books, Videos, Songs, computer software and much more.