Learn Gulf Arabic

The uTalk app teaches about 2000 Gulf Arabic words and focuses primarily on playful exercises. There are several exercises to choose from:

• Read and listen to Gulf Arabic words (with translation and photos)
• Match the Gulf Arabic word you heard to a photo
• Speak a Gulf Arabic word and compare the recording with the original
• A memory game with pictures
• Speak the Gulf Arabic translation of an English word

The interface of the app is well made and is similar to other apps like Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.

Summary: Getting access to 160 languages is impressive and the scope (2000 words with native speaker audio and exercises) is also solid.

Link: uTalk Gulf Arabic Language Course App

With the Memrise App you can learn over 90 languages.

This includes even very small languages - however, in such cases the language courses are often limited to just a few lessons.

One special feature of the Memrise learning app is the large number of lessons created by users (native speakers).

The quality of these lessons varies greatly though. For example, only the basic forms of verbs are usually taught, without the conjugations. Some languages also do not have an audio recording of the words at all.

Another good idea of the Memrise app are the user-generated tips and mnemonics for each word to help you memorize them.

Summary: User-generated lessons are a good idea. In practice, the quality of the lessons leaves a lot be desired.

The Bluebird App offers 146 source languages and 163 target languages and dialects, including Gulf Arabic.

The Gulf Arabic language course in this app includes the following:

• Daily video lessons in three difficulty levels
• Basic Gulf Arabic vocabulary on several dozen topics
• Common Gulf Arabic verbs with conjugations
• Analysis of your own pronunciation (with speech recognition)
• Tests: listening comprehension, filling in word gaps, vocabulary quizzes

There are about 500 video lessons for learning Gulf Arabic, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed transliterated in the Latin script.

The Bluebird app has no grammar lessons. Instead, you are supposed to understand the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, like in Rosetta Stone.

Summary: The video lessons and the interface take some getting used to, but the exercises are quite varied. Especially for smaller languages, this app is a viable alternative.

The Mango Languages App offers 70 languages, including Gulf Arabic.

This app also has some grammar lessons and cultural explanations. The explanations in English are all recorded and well done.

However, the number of lessons for learning Gulf Arabic is quite small, which means that this app is only suitable for absolute beginners.

There are no exercises, except for the repeated vocabulary tests.

You can also record your own pronunciation in the app and compare it with the recording of a native speaker.

Summary: Good quality, but not much vocabulary. Only for absolute Gulf Arabic beginners.

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 Eastern Arabic dialect 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 Eastern Arabic learning course for PCs and Macs also includes a mobile app for Android and iOS systems.

Summary: The most expensive beginner course, even though it is unlikely that learning with it is much better than with the cheaper apps.

Learning App	Subscrip­tion?	Price	Systems
uTalk	No	$199	PC, Mac, Apps
uTalk	1 month	$12	PC, Mac, Apps
uTalk	12 months	$60	PC, Mac, Apps
Memrise	No	$255	PC, Mac, Apps
Memrise	1 month	$15	PC, Mac, Apps
Memrise	12 months	$60	PC, Mac, Apps
Bluebird	No	$200	PC, Mac, Apps
Bluebird	1 month	$10	PC, Mac, Apps
Bluebird	12 months	$100	PC, Mac, Apps
Mango	1 month	$12	PC, Mac, Apps
Mango	12 months	$120	PC, Mac, Apps
Pimsleur (Basics)	No	$150	PC, Mac, Apps

Best App to Learn Gulf Arabic:
uTalk App