Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input
38 points - today at 4:24 PM
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
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gramie today at 6:53 PM
For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org. It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world.
It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language and can't recommend it highly enough.
qarthandyc today at 6:05 PM
It doesn't make any sound when I click the speaker icon. What's wrong with this?
junaid_97 today at 7:39 PM
Nice work.
As others mentioned, I couldn't hear the sound.
There is a dire need for a good quality arabic learning app.
xeromal today at 6:17 PM
Arabic language learning resources are few and far between. Thank you for building this. Do you know which Arabic this teaches? Koranic? Modern Standard? Levantine? Gulf?
Raed667 today at 6:45 PM
Saw a couple of words that (as far as I know) aren't "modern standard Arabic" is there any bias towards a dialect or another?
cess11 today at 6:29 PM
Are the vocalisations of the letters synthetic?
Edit: If I wasn't acquainted with arabic script I'd probably not be able to make out the difference in vocalisation between some letters.
eegG0D today at 6:36 PM
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