Arabic study log - MintTea

Since I have no sense of self-control I recently started learning Arabic again.
I learned some basics around 6 years ago and then never used it, so my current Arabic knowledge is pretty much non-existent

For now the focus is on MSA, though I don’t think I can resist dabbling in the various dialects from time to time. Later on I’ll probably focus on either Syrian or Egyptian dialect.

Expect very infrequent updates.

List of resources

None so far. If you know of any good ones, let me know.

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Wikipedia has some contents. And it has external links you might even find more interesting.

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@fallynleaf might perhaps have some good resources? Though looks like they’ve got a different focused dialect.

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Yeah, all my resources are fairly Palestinian Arabic specific, haha. The person to ask is probably @shablul.

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for future reference the resources I use are all palestinian dialect too lol and from my native to boot

but I do have a list fro the duolingo server of resources I’ve compiled both for myself and others, I’ll try organizing it a bit and send here

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need to rearrange things and stuff but here is a copy-paste of a bunch of things that I have saved on a thread in discord

also adding resources from the cresosphere, I would rather have one proper place for it, I’m under the impression that if I overdo it deleting the thread is an option

https://ar.forvo.com/word/سلم/

https://www.studyarabic.com/#/conjugation_practice

https://teammaha.com/

https://www.noor-book.com/en/tag/Arabic-novels-and-stories

https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/arabic-jordan/

https://www.youtube.com/c/LisanArabi/videos

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Writing-style-follow-by-Arabic-Script_fig1_261478481

http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/index.html

https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/everyday-arabic-handwriting/

https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic/

mocha<🔥50>:
Arabic resourses recommendation :+1::-
r/learn_arabic: a whole reddit discussion that talks about almost every arabic dialect, such as levantine, egyptian and MSA. [https://www.reddit.com/r/learn_arabic/]
alma3any: a whole arabic dictionary filled with lots of words [https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/]
ArabicPod101: learn arabic that contains thousands of lessons, and surprisingly its free. also there are short audio and video lessons! [https://www.arabicpod101.com/]
Duolingo, if ykyk.
Drops: free language learning for 5 mins/day! and has 350 vocabularies and about 4.5k words!
[https://languagedrops.com/]
Arabic101: A youtube channel that explains tajweed [Quran reading] and arabic! they also have a website. [https://www.youtube.com/@Arabic101/ and https://arabic101.org/]
-Mo3jam: a whole website that can look up for words over 19 dialects. [https://en.mo3jam.com/]
-Easy Arabic: it’s a youtube channel where the hosts of the channel go to Cairo, Egypt and interview people there. [https://www.youtube.com/user/magauchsein/]

https://www.youtube.com/@noorstars/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@ShadiSrour/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@LailaMouradfitness/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@MjrmGames/featured
https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleMuslimVideos/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@hiibanajem
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnArabicKhasu/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnArabicWithAmeen/featured

https://www.languagetransfer.org/arabic
https://forvo.com/languages/ar/
https://www.languageguide.org/arabic/vocabulary/
https://www.madinaharabic.com/learn-arabic.html
https://www.livelingua.com/arabic/courses
https://www.edx.org/course/arabic-for-non-arabic-speakers?index=product&queryID=9f03c2364f66379e6dc029977e8fb481&position=1&search_index=product&results_level=first-level-results&term=arabic&campaign=Arabic+for+non-Arabic+Speakers&source=edX&product_category=course&placement_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.edx.org%2Fsearch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n3zNCLaggHM

https://msaarabic.com/plural-in-arabic/

https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/download-more-than-10000-books-in-arabic-all-completely-free-digitized-and-put-online.html

https://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/

https://www.youtube.com/@IBNHATTUTA/videos

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If/when you go from the standard dialect to Egyptian, I recommend the (Cleo Lingo)[ Home | Cleo Lingo ] site since they focus specifically on Egyptian. The founder studied MSA in college and then moved to Egypt and could barely speak so he had to relearn a lot that was dialect specific. When he left Egypt he started a company focused on teaching Egyptian Arabic specifically. Most of the newsletters and posts on the site are free to read but they do have some paid courses as well. I’m currently doing the Ramadan daily course that has a soap opera like “plot” to it. I’ve still been very lazy about the alphabet but I’m learning some words from this.

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Thanks for all the resources. You guys are awesome!

I’m still very much at the beginning of my Arabic journey. I’ve just finished reviewing the alphabet and it went a lot better than expected. Seems like I remember more than I thought. Though I still struggle with the pronunciation of some of the letters like ق or ع.

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