Useful links الروابط المفيدة
Al Hakawati
This website provides great articles on Arab history and culture in Arabic.
Culture Talk
This website has helpful videos in Arabic with transliterations of the videos.
Qu'ran Explorer
The whole Quran with recitations, translations and other resources
Jadaliyya
Good articles on middle eastern culture and politics in Arabic and English.
GLOSS
Put out by the Defense Institute, this site is really helpful for independent learners. It focuses on listening and reading authentic materials, includes activities and translations and allows students to search by level, topic, and to a certain extent dialect.
Aswaat Arabiyya أصوات عربية
This site offers lots of authentic videos that are categorized by proficiency levels.
Arabic Phone Conversations
This site offers hundreds of phone conversations categorized by dialect, proficiency level and topic.
Aratools
Aratools is an Arabic-English dictionary that tells you the root of the word and what it is grammatically (ie 3rd person, masculine, singular, past tense). It doesn’t have everything, but it’s definitions are very accurate. It’s also a helpful spell checker.
mo3jam المعجم
Like ‘Urban Dictionary’ but for Arabic. It’s not very comprehensive, but it’s searchable by dialect.
Qutrub قطرب
This website will conjugate any verb for you! In all tenses and forms! It also includes the short vowels.
Al Jazeera Learning
A language learning site from Al Jazeera
Ejtaal
The Hans Wehr Dictionary online and searchable by root.
All The Arabic You Never Learned...
These are very to the point grammar and language lessons.
Foreigncy
A really good website to prep you for Media Arabic classes. It takes articles in Arabic, but provides you with the vocab lists and flashcards before you read it, so you can learn new words then read them in context.
Al Masdar المصدر
This website was put out by the Qatar Foundation International and offers students a number of excellent links to Arabic resources
Al Jazeera الجزيرة
The Al Jazeera News website in both English and Arabic
Al Arabiyya العربية
A popular Arabic news source
MBC
MBC is one of the most popular channels in the Middle East and often has excellent programming during Ramadan
Donya Ya Donya دنيا يا دنيا
This is a great morning talk show that covers a variety of topics
min al? مين ال؟
This show from MTV Lebanon is just daily 1 minute clips that provide information or advice on a particular topics. It’s great for learners because it’s short, varied and there are normally good accompanying graphics.
Manal Al 'Alam منال العالم
This is a great cooking show in Arabic. Manal even has her own popular series of cookbooks.
This website provides great articles on Arab history and culture in Arabic.
Culture Talk
This website has helpful videos in Arabic with transliterations of the videos.
Qu'ran Explorer
The whole Quran with recitations, translations and other resources
Jadaliyya
Good articles on middle eastern culture and politics in Arabic and English.
GLOSS
Put out by the Defense Institute, this site is really helpful for independent learners. It focuses on listening and reading authentic materials, includes activities and translations and allows students to search by level, topic, and to a certain extent dialect.
Aswaat Arabiyya أصوات عربية
This site offers lots of authentic videos that are categorized by proficiency levels.
Arabic Phone Conversations
This site offers hundreds of phone conversations categorized by dialect, proficiency level and topic.
Aratools
Aratools is an Arabic-English dictionary that tells you the root of the word and what it is grammatically (ie 3rd person, masculine, singular, past tense). It doesn’t have everything, but it’s definitions are very accurate. It’s also a helpful spell checker.
mo3jam المعجم
Like ‘Urban Dictionary’ but for Arabic. It’s not very comprehensive, but it’s searchable by dialect.
Qutrub قطرب
This website will conjugate any verb for you! In all tenses and forms! It also includes the short vowels.
Al Jazeera Learning
A language learning site from Al Jazeera
Ejtaal
The Hans Wehr Dictionary online and searchable by root.
All The Arabic You Never Learned...
These are very to the point grammar and language lessons.
Foreigncy
A really good website to prep you for Media Arabic classes. It takes articles in Arabic, but provides you with the vocab lists and flashcards before you read it, so you can learn new words then read them in context.
Al Masdar المصدر
This website was put out by the Qatar Foundation International and offers students a number of excellent links to Arabic resources
Al Jazeera الجزيرة
The Al Jazeera News website in both English and Arabic
Al Arabiyya العربية
A popular Arabic news source
MBC
MBC is one of the most popular channels in the Middle East and often has excellent programming during Ramadan
Donya Ya Donya دنيا يا دنيا
This is a great morning talk show that covers a variety of topics
min al? مين ال؟
This show from MTV Lebanon is just daily 1 minute clips that provide information or advice on a particular topics. It’s great for learners because it’s short, varied and there are normally good accompanying graphics.
Manal Al 'Alam منال العالم
This is a great cooking show in Arabic. Manal even has her own popular series of cookbooks.