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title: "Learn Arabic | Fasaha"
description: "Straight answers on learning Arabic: how long it takes, the alphabet, Modern Standard Arabic versus dialects, roots and patterns, vocabulary, and speaking."
canonical: "https://fasaha.app/learn-arabic"
language: "en"
direction: "ltr"
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Intent guides

# Find the Arabic path that matches how you actually learn

Each guide answers one question about learning Arabic as fully and honestly as we can, and says plainly where Fasaha helps and where it does not.

- [Learn Arabic with subtitlesUse interactive Arabic subtitles, transcripts, and tap-to-learn lookups to turn native media into daily study with Fasaha.Arabic with subtitles](https://fasaha.app/learn-arabic-with-subtitles)
- [Arabic podcast learningLearn Arabic through podcasts with repeatable listening, transcript support, speaking follow-up, and review loops inside Fasaha.Arabic podcast learning](https://fasaha.app/arabic-podcast-learning)
- [Arabic reading by levelRead Arabic by level from A0 to C2 with native audio, tap-to-learn depth, and a progression that keeps input challenging but readable.Arabic reading by level](https://fasaha.app/arabic-reading-by-level)
- [Arabic dictionary and sentence analysisUnderstand Arabic words and sentences with instant lookups, roots, patterns, grammar, and context without leaving what you are reading in Fasaha.Understand Arabic](https://fasaha.app/understand-arabic)
- [Learn the Arabic alphabetArabic has 28 letters, most with four positional shapes, and six that never join forward. What that costs, what to drill first, and how long it takes.Arabic alphabet](https://fasaha.app/arabic-alphabet)
- [How long Arabic takesThe US Foreign Service Institute budgets 88 weeks and 2,200 class hours for Arabic, full-time. Here is what that means if you study 5 hours a week.How long it takes](https://fasaha.app/how-long-to-learn-arabic)
- [MSA vs Arabic dialectsModern Standard Arabic has no native speakers. ISO 639-3 lists 30 Arabic varieties, only one of them Standard. Here is how to choose which to learn first.MSA vs dialects](https://fasaha.app/msa-vs-dialects)
- [Arabic roots and patternsMost Arabic words are three consonants poured into a pattern. Watch one root become eight words, learn the ten verb forms, and find any word's root.Roots and patterns](https://fasaha.app/arabic-root-and-pattern)

## Free tools

### Arabic alphabet chart: every letter in all four positions

All 28 letters, isolated and as they are written at the start, middle and end of a word.

Free tool

## Keep the sentence. Leave the tool switching behind.

Fasaha is available on the App Store and Google Play. Start with the Arabic you already want to understand.

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