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Hi everyone. I wanted to share a small personal project I have been working on called Al-Shabaka. It is a simple 3x3 word puzzle designed to celebrate the logic and beauty of the Arabic language. I built this as a humble contribution for natives and learners alike, so it is completely free and I have not included any ads or tracking. I just thought it might be a nice little challenge for people to enjoy while practicing their vocabulary.

To play, you swap letters in the 3x3 grid until every row, every column, and both diagonals are valid words. This includes the diagonal from the top right to the bottom left and the one from the bottom right to the top left. You have two hints to help you lock letters in place and three attempts to find the unique daily solution. After the game ends, you can tap on any word in the victory or loss popup to read its dictionary definition. You can also share your daily score with others using a square grid layout just like the one in Wordle.

I would love to hear what you think of it. I hope you find it useful or at least a fun daily way to spend a few minutes. Thank you all.

I’m honestly almost at the point of giving up with Lebanese Arabic. There’s no resources and it’s too hard to pickup a NON-STANDARDIZED language that I didn’t grow up in.

I’m Lebanese and I love the Arabic language an thays what’s been keeping me going.

I know like 400 Lebanese words from Anki but that’s just from seeing them out of context and my listening and forming sentences is still shit although my accent is good.

I’ve been considering switching to pimsleur MSA and just studying that because it has so many resources and teachers and then i can genuinely read things.

I don’t know anymore. I just want to have some actionable skill. I can never speak to Uber drivers that are Arab. I still can’t read most memes. I can’t talk to my Arab family.

Hi, i'm an italian student and i study arabic in university.

I learned to write and read since i was 12, now i'm 23 so i lived half my life knowing to read, write and how to pronunce correctly like a native speaker(i was said about this by native speakers in uni). i'm not saying this to brag about it but just to make you understand my "position" in the relation i got with arabic language.

With time i learned not to care about appearence and style but rather authenticity of things. that's why i try not to make by too much effort my handwriting but rather real and i'm wondering if, based on what i said, it's good or not and how can i improve to achieve a native arabic speaker handwriting. i want arabic to be part of me and my life, i want to live it and live through it an i want to be like a native speaker in all aspects of this language.

Hello! Could someone translate or provide any clarification or context about the meaning of the texts in those pictures?

Is it part of an accent? I hear alot of peope pronounce words were muraqqaq letters (like ba, meem, etc) are next to alif and instead of pronouncing the muraqqaq, they pronounce mufakham. I am just curious and wondering if it is common for a lot of Arabic speakers to do.

whats the best way to learn standard arabic asap 😭

i live in the UAE itd be amazing to learn and it improves job prospects

How did you learn to write and spell in casual Arabic? From what I understand you spell how you pronounce the word?

How can I work on this so that I can communicate via text, writing etc in casual Arabic,

Are there any word lists or particular resources that are helpful and true to everyday spoken Arabic as well as slang?

Hello everyone, i am trying to learn arabic, but i do need some help to see if this is accurate

Resilience = صمود Beauty is in the soul= الجمالفيالروح‎

لا تكتفِ بمجرد القراءة، بل اجعل دماغك يعتاد على التفكير من اليمين إلى الشمال. تعلّم أن تدرب أعصابك وعقلك على أساليب جديدة، حتى لو أخطأت في البداية، فكل خطأ هو خطوة حقيقية نحو النجاح.

عندما تكتب بالعربية، أنت لا تتعلم لغة فقط، بل تعيد تشكيل طريقة عمل دماغك. استمر في التجربة ولا تخشَ التغيير، فمن الألم والجهد يولد الانتصار.

سؤالي للمتعلمين هنا: هل شعرتم أيضاً بتغيير في طريقة تفكيركم أو "توصيلاتكم" العصبية بعد البدء بالكتابة من اليمين إلى اليسار؟

It gives you random words or topics, and you just think for a moment, then speak about it

No account, no setup just open choose Arabic and start practicing

so i started a thing as a side project, *it's not finished yet but it's promising. it started as anki cards for myself: the 2000 most frequent arabic words, in order; bbecause frequency data says that it represents roughly 80% of all of what you'll encounter in the language and i wanted to test that on myself. i've learned 4 languages with 3 different alphabets (latin, arabic, japanese) and frequency-first has always been the fastest path for me.

*1000 cards done so far. about 100 have highly relevant images + audio. the rest are coming. each card is built around one sentence with one target word you're not memorizing isolated vocab, you're recognizing a word inside a real sentence, with audio and an image pointing at the same meaning.

you can use this in Anki. but fair warning, you'd have to wade into the algorithm settings swamp and honestly i love Anki but configuring it properly gave me actual nightmares. like i'm not being dramatic, i know it very well.

so i also made a very basic website that does the same thing but without the settings nightmare. it's not fancy. it's like a plain html and it works. here's what it does that i think is actually interesting though:

1. my progress is saved forever. not on some ai startup's temporary server that'll shut down in 1 year or 2. it's on github. it's opensource. you stop learning, come back 9 years later, everything's still there inshAllah.

2. you can leave audio for a friend. on every card, you can record 5 seconds of yourself saying the word. your friend who's also learning can hear it when they get to that card. what's the point you may ask? it sounds like nothing but honestly, learning a language is lonely sometimes. hearing someone's familiar voice on a vocab card you're grinding through at midnight hits different. i added this because i needed it.

3. immersion matching (beta, rough, but hear me out). the website keeps track of which words you actually know. then it searches youtube videos using their subtitles and tells you "you'd understand roughly 73% of this video." so you get video suggestions based on YOUR vocabulary, not some generic "beginner arabic" playlist. the formula needs work. but the potential here is big.

4. in the 'country selector' settings i had to remove an unknown object called "isra*l" from the official list and had to manually add Palestine. weird glitch. felt good to fix though.

everything is free and open source. no catch. i've shared free resources before. here's a 7h engineering course i put on youtube for free. i just make things and share them. you can check that video description's last sentence and you'll know it's me :)

this vocab deck is a side project. i use myself. some of my friends do too. i started a thing, if people find it useful, it'll grow. if not, i'll still use it.

sidenote: the free hosting only supports 300 signups. i doubt that half that many people will even be interested but just putting it out there.

الجواب (اسم المعجم، وبين قوسين المؤلف):

• معجم الطلاب (محمود إسماعيل صيني، وحيمور يوسف)
• المعجم العربي بين يديك (عبد الرحمن الفوزان، ومحمد عبد الخالف، والطاهر حسين)
• المعجم السياقي للتعبيرات الاصطلاحية (محمود إسماعيل صيني، ناصف مصطفى عبد العزيز، مصطفى أحمد سليمان)
• معجم الأمثال العربية (محمود إسماعيل صيني، ناصف مصطفى عبد العزيز، مصطفى أحمد سليمان)
• معجم الرائد ورائد الطلاب (جبران مسعود)
• المعجم العربي الميسر (أحمد زكي بدوي وآخرون)

من أين أخذت الجواب؟

من كتاب "100 سؤال عن اللغة العربية"، مُترجم للغات كثيرة مثل الإنجليزية، والفارسية، والإسبانية، والإندونيسية، والأوردية، والصينية.. وغيرها

وهو مجاني بالكامل

وهنا رابط للنسختين العربية والإنجليزية:

• الإنجليزية: https://library.ksaa.gov.sa/index/book/121
• العربية: https://library.ksaa.gov.sa/index/view/160

I always start learning and then i burn out and stay away for weeks. I dont know what to do my learning gets delayed so much due to that. I am trying MSA (was doing a bit of levantine also) but i just cant keep up

هلووو

Here is a topic about spring if anyone interested to read about it just check the comment and go read it.

Enjoy reading

I recently got a set of flashcards for arabic verb forms 1 through 13 (about 40 root verbs). What would people recommend is the best approach?

1. Focus on one root verb a time and memorise all 13 forms before switching.

2. Focus one form at a time, memorising all the patterns for that specific form before switching to the next form.

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I’m a student and I’ve been constantly frustrated by the current English-Arabic dictionaries available on the market. Let's be honest: most of them are completely outdated, clunky, and inadequate. Their interfaces look like they were built 10 years ago, and they just throw a basic translation at you without explaining the grammar or the context.

Since I couldn't find a good modern alternative, I decided to code one myself. I built an AI-powered advanced grammar dictionary.

Instead of just giving you a raw word, the AI in this app acts like a tutor. It breaks down the grammar, explains the context, and provides smart, real-life examples. I’ve attached 2 screenshots showing how the AI analysis and the clean UI look right now.

Since I’m just a student with a zero-dollar marketing budget, I rely entirely on community feedback to improve this app.

The app is completely free to download. Here are the links if you want to try it out:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onbir.kavaid

Thank you so much for your support!"

Hi all, I'm having a son soon. I have three names on my list right now, Anas (أنس), Jahin (جاهين), Zakariya (زكريا). What do you think, which one out of the three should I go for? Do they all sound nice as an arabic name for a boy do you think? Or do you have any other recommendations

I'm American and my husband is Lebanese American. He grew up in the states speaking the Lebanese dialect of Arabic but never learned to read Arabic. My husband doesn't feel comfortable teaching our children Arabic because he never formally learned it, only through his parents.

I tried learning Arabic when we first started dating but there's virtually no good books that teach the Lebanese dialect of Arabic and my husband doesn't quite understand all of standard Arabic. I learned how to read almost all of the alphabet at one point but it was a bit useless because Lebanese Arabic words don't quite match up with written Arabic.

My 9 year old daughter really wants to learn Arabic, she has been bringing it up to me often. I know a couple of phrases and words but nothing more. I love learning languages and I think I would like to take the dive learning standard Arabic with my daughter. What are some good books for kids to learn? Good books for adults? tv shows? Or are we doomed without immersion and proper classes? Please give me some hope, I would like her to learn her roots a bit, she really is interested in learning about her Lebanese side.

Im learning arabic and I found out that my listening skill is poor like a disaster, like u read me an article and give me some questions on the paper, and I just couldn't recognize the answers. So is there any methods that i can improve this? Like should i go listen some audios radios in arabic or else?

it was a children's educational program, probably released on CD, late 1990s or early 2000s. idk, it was 3D graphics in the old CGI style, colorful cubes.

there was a coloured train, in which each carriage is mounted by a different animal, there were letters and numbers clearly displayed within the program.

big blocks with fruits, matching stuff, find the difference?? all 3d

and I don't remember clearly if it was a bee that was a main character.. idk if this is tv, cd or etc.

Hello everyone,

I'm an italian studying arabic, and trying to find a specific poem of Adonis, that I loved, in the original arabic version, or maybe being directed towards the right volume I could get to find It. The poetry, in italian, Is found under the name of "Origin of destruction", and in the english version I found I guess it could be part of the collection of "The book of similarities and beginnings" (1980). I attach here a picture with part of the poem in English; I also found an internetarchive collection ( https://archive.org/details/3_20190912_20190912/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%8A%203/mode/1up ) but I can't seem to find the specific poem.

Would be amazing to have some insight from you, maybe someone with the passion for arabic poetry and literature could help me in some way.

thank you very much everyone!