This website aims to teach the basics of Arabic to enabler users to read the Qur'an. The website breaks down YouTube video lectures into six levels of lessons, starting with the Arabic alphabet and working up through more complicated rules of recitation. Lessons also include letters that can be clicked on to see how they are drawn and word combinations with audio components so learners can hear how they are properly pronounced. The lessons are available for download, as are several PDF files relating to the study of the Qur'an.

Conversation Activities | The Pathways Project

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Let’s Chat! Arabic features a collection of over 28 interpersonal speaking activities for novice and intermediate learners. Touching on a range of thematic topics such as greetings, daily routines, health, eating out, holidays and so much more, Arabic teachers are sure to find an activity to use in their courses. These activities may be used as is or can easily be revised and remixed to fit the unique needs of individual classrooms.

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Let’s Chat! Arabic features a collection of over 28 interpersonal speaking activities for novice and intermediate learners. Touching on a range of thematic topics such as greetings, daily routines, health, eating out, holidays and so much more, Arabic teachers are sure to find an activity to use in their courses. These activities may be used as is or can easily be revised and remixed to fit the unique needs of individual classrooms.

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The Pathways Project, an initiative from the Department of World Languages at Boise State University, is a collaborative network of open educational resources (OER) including instructional language teaching materials and professional development created by and uniquely for Idaho’s K-16 language teachers and students.

Teachers and students participating in the Pathways Project come from different fields of study and schools across Idaho to create open (i.e., free), digital activities that support the teaching and learning of foreign languages and promote intercultural competence. We hope to impact the opportunities learners have to connect to the global world!

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Let's Learn Arabic is a tutorial designed to introduce users to reading and writing in Arabic. The tutorial is composed of a total of five lessons and begins with a brief historical background about the language. The first and second lessons provide an introduction to the letters that make up the alphabet. The next three give a number of example demonstrating how to combine the letters into words. Audio files demonstrating the names of all of the letters are provided.

This website provides a list of basic, common words and expressions in Arabic in both Arabic script and in transliteration. It is intended to give learners a basic set of stock phrases to use if going overseas. Links to YouTube videos of common phrases is included in the website, as is a multiple choice test. The test is in transliteration. A similar list and test is also available for Moroccan Arabic. Information on the Arabic alphabet is available, as is a link to the Speak7 website for more in-depth lessons.

This program allows users to type in Arabic whether or not they have Arabic enabled on their computer. The display includes a picture of a keyboard that allows users to see what keys correspond to the Arabic letters. What is typed appears in a window on the page, which users can then copy and paste to whatever document or other website they are using. Magictyper is available is for multiple languages and is free to use, although donations are welcomed.

Students will learn how to describe pets in Spanish by drawing their own pet or desired pet. Students will describe how their pet looks and its characteristics. After describing their pet, students will share how their pet looks and how their pet acts to a partner. This activity familiarizes students with different animals and descriptions of animals.

Mixxer offers language partners across the globe for free via Skype. The website is set up to help parties who would like to learn each other's language connect for language exchange sessions. Users simply have to register and log in and they can search for conversation partners from across the globe. The site also allows users to maintain and share blogs in order to practice written elements of the language they are studying. Teachers can organize group sessions for their students.

This website is a collection of resources concerning learning Arabic as a second language as well as information about Arab culture, Islam, and various Arab countries. There are links to videos from YouTube on the site relating to Arabic study, including songs and lessons, as well as a host of other more unrelated things, such as tornadoes. Links to opportunities to study Arabic, teacher resources, and Arabic newspapers are available.

The mission of the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) at the University of Indiana is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities. The intent is to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction in the United States.

The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai'i is one of the fifteen National Foreign Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education. NFLRC focuses on the less commonly taught languages of Asia and the Pacific, including Arabic. The website offers publications available for sale and frequently hosts conferences and workshops.

The mission of the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at the University of California, Los Angeles is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design and teacher education. Some of the center's projects for Arabic include facilitating STARTALK workshops, publishing articles on Arabic linguistics, and more. The NHLRC is one of 15 Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education.

This site presents the numbers in Arabic using the Hindi numeral system. Below each set of Hindi numerals are the corresponding Arabic numerals, and if users scroll over the Hindi numerals, they will see the number written out in the Arabic script. The site contains the numbers 1-19, 20-100 (in intervals of ten), 101, 200, 300, and 400, and then lists powers of ten from one thousand to one billion.

The OWL Testing Software serves many purposes and is useful for oral assessment as it can digitally capture the oral responses of each student. The system facilitates the rating and scoring process. OWL also allows raters to do evaluations online, record comments, and control multiple ratings. Additionally, it allows the opportunity for institutions to build assessments that are tailored to their syllabus and standards of achievements. Exams can be administered to anyone.

The Omniglot website provides a list of basic Arabic phrases both in Arabic script and in transliteration. Each phrase comes with an Arabic recording. It also provides links to other collections of Arabic phrases as well as information about learning foreign languages in general. A link to the chapter in the Bible regarding the Tower of Babel is available in Arabic and in many other languages as well.

This online Arabic tutorial from the University of Maryland offers information on the alphabet, basics in grammar such as pronouns and verb conjugations, numbers, qualifying adjectives, time and date, and other various vocabulary activities focusing on things such as the parts of the body and greetings. Each tutorial section comes with a comprehensive quiz. Audio components are available to listen to the various vocabulary words.

The Oral Proficiency Interview exam tests for speaking skills and is offered for various languages, including Arabic. The exam can be administered to students and professionals of all proficiency levels, starting from grade 11 in high school. The length of the exam, conducted by phone or Skype, is 20-30 minutes. Results fall on a scale of proficiency ranging from 0 to 5+. The exam resembles a conversation but goes through a specific set of stages: a warm-up stage to check the interviewee's level, a stage to probe for higher levels, and wind-down phase.

This flashcard set contains a total of 890 cards for users to print and use that represent the vast majority of the vocabulary words presented in Al-Kitaab Part I. The cards provide the English word on one side and its meaning in Arabic on the other. Terms are generally listed in chronological order based on their appearance in the textbook's lessons.

Part of a larger website concerning education, this set of Arabic quizzes are user generated and contain more than 30 quizzes. Arabic quizzes include topics such as vocabulary, letter sounds, the alphabet, and more. Quizzes are timed and scores can be recorded and kept track of. Registering allows users to create their own quizzes.

Mumkin offers practice materials for learners who are at a beginning, intermediate, and advanced level. Materials are grouped by difficulty level, and consists of videos in Arabic daily life followed by comprehension questions in the form of multiple choice or fill in the blank questions. Users also have the ability to read an Arabic transcription of each video. The site also provides a series of songs in Arabic that depict some aspect of contemporary Arab life along with the lyrics to the songs.

The Proficiency Test in Arabic Reading (PTARC) measures reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The PTARC exam is intended for college students and beyond, and it can be administered to students of all proficiency levels. The length of the exam is 1-2 hours.