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Handy links that will help you building your Arabic

Phonology and Script

• Arabic 2000 (Overview of the Arabic Letters with sound)
• Arabic alphabet (different shapes of each letter, color coding, illustrating examples, and transliteration. A wonderful resource)
• Numbers from 1 to 10 (The same site above)
• Omniglot Arabic (a guide to Arabic letters and numbers)
• The art of Arabic Callegraphy
• Fathah - Tanwin (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Joining the letters (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Sukuun - Qalqalah (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Sukuun - Shaddah (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Words with Sukuun (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Vocabulary - Relationships (Islamic University of Madeenah)
• Consonants Chart and Summary of Arabic Alphabet Characteristics
• Chart of initial/final/medial positions of letters in the Arabic alphabet
• Letter Recognition Exercise (Good for unit one) (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Learn Arabic (From Egypt Today; letters with trace-and-copy exercises)
• Arab Academy (Flash animated Arabic Alphabet) Requires Flash Player.
• The Alphabet song an great resource (requires Flash player)
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Two (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Stress Rules (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Babel Arabic Writing Part I
• Babel Arabic Writing Part II
• Babel Arabic Writing Part III
• Babel Arabic Writing Part IV
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Three (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Four (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Five (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Six (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Letter Recognition Exercise for unit Seven (David Mehal, Georgetown University)
• Arabic Numerals (Good fo unit 8)
• Babel Arabic Counting (Good fo unit 8)

Words and Phrases

• Arabic 2000 (Greetings and very simple exchanges for beginners)
• Arabic 2000 (A word a day) with very simple sentences and paragraphs (with Tashkeel)
• Ajeeb online translator (Translate words, phrases, paragraphs or entire web sites from English to Arabic and vice versa)
• Almisbar translation, word, paragraph, site
• ETACO Arabic English online dictionary and translator
• Travlang Language for travellers with sound (click on the Saudi flag for Arabic)
• Cafe Syria, Greetings
• Cafe Syria, Arabic basic phrases
• Cafe Syria, small talk (great for unit seven)
• Fruits and Vegetables, and other Food Items (Islamic University of Madeenah)

Culture

• Egyptian dialect (Hadretik / Hadretak)
• Arabic Greetings
• Alhemdullela'ah
• Lebanese proverbs
• Egyptian proverbs
• Egyptian Arabic
• Levantine Arabic
• Gulf Arabic
• Algerian Arabic
• A list of English and Europian words that come from Arabic
• Meanings of Arabic names (M - F)
• Arabic coffee (Good to use with unit Six)
• ABC Arabic quisine, names of meals and food items
• An article about Arabic numerals (Good to use with unit eight)
• Islamic contributions to mathematics (Good to use with unit eight)
• Muslim thinkers and scientists(Good to use with unit eight)
• Maps of the Middle east
• Online Arabic songs
• Arabic advertisements with English Translation