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The Egyptian Cairo dialect is understood everywhere in the Arabic world, in large part due to the Egyptian movies and TV productions.
Egypt is also the most populous Arab country with 90 million people.
A compact overview of all the Arabic learning apps can be found below.
Suitable for: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Students, Travel
Content: Arabic vocabulary trainer (5000 words), playful exercises, grammar
Prices: Free (initial lessons), $12.99
(1 month and 1 language), $59.99
(12 months and all 41 languages)
Discount offer: $99 (Lifetime Access to all 41 Languages)
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The Mondly App lets you learn the Arabic language in a playful way with a series of interactive exercises.
This Arabic learning program contains:
Summary: Mondly is very similar to the Babbel and Duolingo apps and is at least on par with them in terms of quality (Babbel has no Arabic course).
Link: Mondly Arabic App and Online Course
Suitable for: Beginners and Advanced Learners, Students, Professionals
Content: 1300 words (basic course), 5200 words (complete course), complete grammar, verb conjugations, exercises
Prices: $59.95 (Basic Course), $127 (Complete Course)
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The Arabic Basic Course contains a vocabulary trainer for the basic Arabic vocabulary (1300 words) with native-speaker audio, as well as grammar explanations and various exercises.
The vocabulary trainer works with a long-term memory method, in which the new vocabulary is checked at increasing intervals.
You can choose between text input, multiple choice or simply confirming whether you knew a word or not.
The exercises include text comprehension questions, filling in word gaps or just vocabulary lists where one side is covered.
The basic course corresponds to the official language levels A1 and A2 (explanation of CEFR language levels).
The Complete Course contains:
Summary: Much cheaper and even better than the famous Rosetta Stone. There is a free demo version available and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Link: Arabic Basic Course and Complete Course
Suitable for: Beginners, intermediate, advanced learners, students, business
Content: Exercises with native speaker audio and speech recognition, writing, grammar, culture
Prices: Free (initial lessons), $89 (basic course), $249 (full course)
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Rocket Languages offers a complete Arabic language course for download, without monthly subscriptions. It covers the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels (A1-C2).
This Arabic learning software and app features:
Summary: Excellent premium Arabic course on par with Rosetta Stone but without a subscription. You pay only once and own the software. There is also a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Link: Rocket Languages Arabic Learning Software
Suitable for: Beginners, intermediate, experts, professionals, business
Content: Arabic lessons with native speaker audio and speech recognition
Prices:
$ 36 (3 months)
$145 (12 months)
$299 (Lifetime access)
$349 (Lifetime access for 24 languages)
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How does Arabic learning with Rosetta Stone work?
Rosetta Stone has a different approach to language learning than many other online courses or language apps such as Duolingo, Memrise and others.
The idea behind Rosetta Stone is to learn a language like you did as a child - by using pictures in combination with listening, speaking, and reading.
Each Rosetta Stone lesson includes the following exercises:
Instead, you are supposed to learn the grammar and the meaning of words from the context or recognize the meaning from the pictures.
Rosetta Stone Apps and Online Version:
The Rosetta Stone Arabic learning software can be used online with a subscription for 3 or 12 months or with a Lifetime Access.
In addition to the online version, there are now also Rosetta Stone apps for iPhones and Android smartphones.
Summary: Time-tested method, but the lack of grammar explanations and translations may make Rosetta Stone not suitable for everyone.
Link: Rosetta Stone App and Online Course
Content: Arabic exercises with native-speaker audio
Prices: Free (with ads), $12.99 (1 month), $60 (12 months)
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The Duolingo App offers beginner language courses for 36 languages, including Arabic. Duolingo covers mostly the basics as well as some intermediate level Arabic vocabulary.
The major drawback of Duolingo (just like Rosetta Stone) is that there are no grammar explanations.
The vocabulary learning with Duolingo is "gamified", which means it is structured like a game with levels, experience points, achievements, etc.
The interface is relatively similar to the apps from Mondly and Babbel (Babbel has no Arabic course).
Summary: The vocabulary trainer and the exercises of the program are okay. However, it is not possible to learn Arabic grammar with this app.
Suitable for: Beginners, intermediate, high school students, college students, travelers
Content: Lessons and vocabulary trainer with native speaker audio, grammar
Prices: $13.90 (1 month), $80 (12 months)
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The Busuu App is a language learning app for 12 languages, including Arabic. The interface is similar to apps like Duolingo, Babbel or Mondly.
Summary: Definitely the weakest of the tested Arabic learning apps in terms of quality.
Content: Arabic lessons and exercises with native speaker audio
Prices: $13 (1 month), $72 (12 months), $164 (unlimited)
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The Language Drops App is most notable for having 47 target languages and 40 source languages, similar to Mondly.
You can learn about 3000 Arabic words and phrases with this app. However, there are hardly any exercises, except for introducing a new word and matching the word to a picture.
You can choose from which topics you want to learn new words and at what skill level you want to learn (whether you know the language somewhat).
If you want to try the app for free for two weeks you have to provide your payment information and then cancel it.
The "deal" you get when you sign up for the free trial is more than 3 times as expensive as when you click "Get Premium" on the website ($38 per month instead of $13 per month).
Summary: No variety, no grammar and only 3000 words. Does not justify the higher price, even though you get access to all languages.
Suitabe for: Beginners, advanced, students, travel vocabulary
Content: Arabic vocabulary, lessons with native-speaker audio and voice recognition
Price: $122 (Basics), $469 (Complete)
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The Pimsleur App is very similar to Rosetta Stone in that it does not give grammar explanations, verb conjugation tables, etc.
Instead, the Pimsleur method is supposed to let you learn the Arabic language intuitively, just like your native language - by combining pictures, reading and speaking (speech recognition).
The complete course includes a total of five courses (levels 1 to 5). The beginner course is level 1. Each of the five courses offers 30 daily lessons of 30 minutes each and there are various interactive exercises.
This Arabic learning course for PCs and Macs also includes a mobile app for Android and iOS systems.
Summary: The most expensive Arabic course, even though it is unlikely that learning with it is much better than with the cheaper apps.
Suitable for: Beginners, intermediate, advanced learners, students, professionals
Content: Video and text lessons, browser extension to import any Arabic texts, vocabulary trainer
Price: $15 (1 month), $120 (12 months)
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The LingQ Arabic App is basically a translation program that is combined with a personalized vocabulary trainer.
In addition to the lessons and texts that are included in this app, any Arabic text can be imported. LingQ has its own browser extension for Firefox, Safari and Chrome to import texts (including ebooks).
You can click on any word in the texts to see a translation and this adds the word to your personal vocabulary trainer.
LingQ also has many videos and podcasts, the content of which appears as a text next to the video or podcast — so that any word there can be clicked on and saved as well.
Unfortunately, there are no grammar lessons, meaning that this app will not suffice on its own to learn Arabic.
Summary: Very interesting way to learn Arabic vocabulary on any subject. However, you need other apps for Arabic grammar and conjugations.
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