Learn Arabic

Straight answers on learning Arabic: how long it takes, the alphabet, Modern Standard Arabic versus dialects, roots and patterns, vocabulary, and speaking.

Learn Arabic with subtitles that pull you into the language: Fasaha turns subtitles into a study layer. Follow the line, tap any word, replay the moment, and save what matters for review instead of letting the clip disappear.
Arabic podcast learning for people who want more than passive listening: Podcasts are powerful because they are dense, portable, and real. Fasaha makes them teachable by giving you transcript support, replay control, vocabulary depth, and a path into speaking practice.
Arabic reading by level, so the text meets you where you are: Good reading practice is neither childish nor overwhelming. Fasaha gives you Arabic reading that climbs from A0 to C2 with support layers that help you stay in the text instead of abandoning it.
Understand the whole Arabic sentence, not only one translation: Fasaha keeps the word, its root and pattern, and the sentence around it in one place. You get the depth you need, then return to reading instead of rebuilding the context in another tool.
28 letters, four shapes each, and six that refuse to connect: Arabic has 28 letters. Most take four shapes depending on where they sit in the word, six never join to the letter that follows, and 20 of the 28 sit in families that share one skeleton and differ only in dots. Here is what that actually costs you.
How long does it really take to learn Arabic?: The honest answer starts with a government number and then explains why that number does not describe you. This page covers the FSI estimate, realistic milestones for a self-studying adult, the true cost of the dialect question, and the point where learners actually quit.
MSA or a dialect: which Arabic should you learn first?: Arabic is not one spoken language with accents. It is a written standard nobody grows up speaking, plus a family of spoken varieties that stop being mutually intelligible at distance. Which one you start with turns on a single question: can you name the country?
Arabic words are built from a root and a pattern: Nearly every Arabic word is a small set of consonants carrying a field of meaning, slotted into a mould that carries the grammar. This page works two roots all the way through, lists the ten verb forms, and says where the system stops being predictable.
Learn Fusha by reading real Arabic, not by memorising lists: Fusha, Modern Standard Arabic, is the Arabic of books, news, formal speech and classical texts. It is learned best the way it is used: by reading. The difficulty is getting from the alphabet to texts you can actually follow. This guide shows that path and where Fasaha fits on it.
You can read the letters. Now you need the words.: Sounding out Arabic is a real milestone, but it does not mean you can understand a page. The gap is vocabulary. This guide explains how much you need, which words come first, and how to learn them inside real Arabic instead of from isolated lists.
An Arabic–English dictionary that finds the root for you: Classical Arabic dictionaries are ordered by root, which is powerful once you know the root and slow when you do not. A learner's dictionary should start from the word as it appears in the text and hand you its root, pattern and family in one step.
Fasaha vs LingQ for Arabic: both teach through reading, for different learners: LingQ and Fasaha share an idea: you learn a language by reading and listening to a lot of it, looking up what you do not know and reviewing it later. They differ in scope. LingQ is one system for more than 50 languages. Fasaha is built only for Arabic. This page says plainly where each is the better choice.
You can read the Qur'an. Here is how to start understanding it.: Many Muslims learned to recite the Qur'an as children and still need a translation to know what a verse says. The gap is vocabulary first, then grammar. This guide puts numbers on that gap, says which kind of tool closes which part of it, and is plain about what Fasaha does and does not do.