Arabistan

(These Arabic links were checked and updated on April 1, 2003)

Exercises

• Orientaal's Arabic Class-room - online exercises for beginners

Short sentences and expressions

• Travlang's "el-2arabiyya li el-musaafiriin" - short sentences with pronunciation
• Doha Bank - Speaking Arabic
• Cafe Syria - Useful Arabic
• Tour Egypt - Egyptian expressions - wav. files
• Egypt Voyager - Common Arabic Phrases
• Maria Cortas' Homepage - Learn Arabic - (wav.)
• Filoumektoub - vocabulaire
• Betlehem-City - Language
• Web Pharaoh - Arabic Language
• The Arab world - Common expressions etc.
• Saeed Ahmad Lootah - Arabic Tutor - Letters, Words, Sentences, Conversation (Real Audio)
• David Mehall - Egyptian conversations in transcription (pdf)

Learning to read

• Learn Arabic - Click Lesson 1 and listen to the Alphabet Song
• Arabic sounds and pictures for children - download program: pronunciation of the Arabic characters, orthography of arnab, baqara, timsaaH, thawr, jamal, Himaar, kharuuf, diik, dhi'b, raakuun, zaraafa, samaka, shayhim, SurSuur, Dab2, Taawuus, DHaby, 2aqrab, ghuuriillaa, fa'r, qird, kanghar, laamaa, maa2iz, namla, wazza, hamistar.
• Learn Arabic - Alphabet table linking each letter to an example: arnab, baTTa, timsaaH, tha2lab, jamal, HiSaan, kharuuf, dubb, dhubaaba, riisha, zaraafa, samaka, shams, Saaruukh, Difda2a, Taa'ira, DHarf, 2inab, ghazaala, faraasha, qird, kalb, lamba, miftaaH, namir, haram, warda, yad
• UKindia - the Arabic alphabet
• Yousef - The Arabic Alphabet
• The Arabic alphabet - four shapes for every character
• Omniglot - Arabic script - four shapes for every character
• Teach Yourself Beginner's Arabic Script - 26 sample pages
• Arabic World page in Japanese with gif animation for the orthography of the words shams, bint, el-eskandariyya
• Caravan-Serai - Alphabet table
• Arabic Azerty Keyboard Layout - move the cursor on the Shift and AltGr keys
• Halima's Homepage - Learn to read the Qur'an in 10 lessons
• Arabic voweling problem sets
• el-kitaab fii ta2allum el-2arabiyya - 10 online units, with links
• Web Arabic - écrire, grammaire, vocabulaire, lire, prénoms
• Kuwait Sign Language - Click on the letter of the English alphabet and choose a word
• Kuwait Sign Language - Choose a category, choose an Arabic word

Grammar

• Xerox Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation - gives all possible vocalisations of any non-vocalised word you enter using the onscreen Arabic keyboard
• tarjim - translate any text from English to Arabic
• www.geckil.com with verbs conjugated in fuSHaa

Dictionaries

• www.alqamoos.com - online Arabic-English, English-Arabic dictionary
• Alburaq.net Arabic-English Dictionary
• Alburaq.net English-Arabic Dictionary
• Algerian-Dardja - English Dictionary

Short texts and dialogues

• LangMedia Arabic in Jordan - short video and audio clips with transcript and translation
• Babel - simple dialogues with pronunciation
• "eT-Tariiqa el-jadiida" - complete reading book of 96 pages!
• Textarab
• Extraits de Textarab
• Extraits de la revue Moukhtarat
• Midad en ligne
• Ajeeb - Online Arabic books
• Arabic Bible - Listen to Bible translations in Cairene, Upper Egyptian and North Sudanese dialect
• Stories from the Arabic Heritage - online JuHaa stories for children (upper left)
• JuHaa stories: 28
• qanaat el-aTfaal (Children's Channel) with read and hear
• el-faatiH - children's magazine
• kids al-islam
• wahati - stories for children

Arabic Language tests

• Test d'évaluation - Ghalib Al-Hakkak
• Arabe - Sujets d'examens

Newspapers and online news sites

• Arab2.com - Top Arabic Newspapers on the Web
• Arabic newspapers online
• Arabic Newspapers & Magazines
• Online Newspapers
• Jordan Explorer - online news
• CNN in Arabic
• www.aljazeera.net

Radio

• Radio Tunis
• Voice of America in Arabic
• Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
• BBC in Arabic

Music

• Radio Mediterranee Internationale - Grands Classiques Arabes - hundreds of songs
• www.farid-el-atrache.com
• Radio Al-Islam - children's songs
• Al-Mashriq - Music, Song and Dance - downloadable songs, lyrics

Online Television in Arabic

• Jordan: Jordan TV
• Saudi Arabia: Saudi TV, Saudi TV, Saudi TV2, Al Majd TV, 
• Tunesia: Tunesia TV, TV7
• Palestine: PSCTV
• Algeria: ENTV
• Bahrein: TV44, Discover Islam TV
• Lebanon: Future TV
• Lybia: LJBC
• Iran: Alalam
• Malta: Net TV, Smash TV, Super1, Super 1, TVM
• (All of these have been selected from wwiTV.com )

Linguistics

• Arabic-L

Calligraphy

• Al-Bab -Arabic alphabet and Calligraphy
• Sakkal Design - Arabic and islamic calligraphy
• Islamic Calligraphy at IslamiCity
• Calligraphy by Kakayi - at CIE
• Calligraphic Art
• Hassan Massoudy - Album
• Islamic calligraphy coloring pages
• Bluemountain - Free Islamic Cards
• Hat Eserleri at Hat Sanatı
• Les Arts Turcs - Calligraphy wirth Gallery
• Arabic Calligraphy by Kamel and Mokhtar El Baba
• Ottoman Souvenir - A History of Calligraphy
• artislamic.com - online digital islamic art gallery
• Ayats and Art - handmade traditional Islamic Calligraphy
• Hattat Selim
• Islamic Period Inscriptions at the Smithsonian - with text and translation

Arabic Fonts

• Arabsgate.com - Free Arabic Fonts
• Fonts for Arabic

Religion

• Converter - from Gregorian to Hijri and vice versa
• Various adhaan from around the world and suurat el-faatiHa at AudioQuraan
• The Holy Qur'an - Arabic text, translation, audio, with: suurat el-faatiHa, suurat el-ikhlaaS, eqra' bi smi rabbika..., allaahu nuuru s-samaawaati wa l-arD, allaahu laa ilaaha illaa huwa l-Hayyu l-qayyuumu,...
• The 99 names of God - Arabic script, translation, reference to Quranic verses
• The 99 names of God - explanation and sound file for each name, recitation of all names
• Centre for Islam in Europe
• hoaxes: laa ilaaha ilaa llaah written in branches, Qur'an in DNA
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Summer Courses

• ILI - Arabic language summer courses in Cairo
• Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes - Arabic language courses in Tunis

Specific Dialects

• Maltese Grammar by Grazio Falzon
• Survival Maltese by Grazio Falzon - the Arabic dialect of Malta with a huge amount of Italian and English words, written in the Latin alphabet
• Basic English-Maltese dictionary by Grazio Falzon
• il-fwieha tan-narcisa magazine in Maltese
• Allmalta Webradio
• Ulrich Seeger - Der arabische Dialekt von il-xalil (Hebron) - (pdf.)
• Eléments de dialecte maure "Hassaniya"
• Colección de Textos Aljamiados - Spanish in Arabic Script
• Sudanese Colloquial Reader (pdf) at at Dunwoody Press

Miscellaneous

• Arabiaware - Arabic software
• Arabismo - Lengua - links

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