This blog is devoted to providing resources to teachers and students of Arabic. The website is run by an Arabic-English-Russian teacher and translator living in the U.K. This blog aims to share cultural and topical resources with lots of ideas for Arabic lessons or for studying alone. It also contains reviews of online resources and books, details of Arabic-language events, recommendations of novels, films, music, and so forth. The author also occasionally posts information about jobs. The blog is searchable.

Wictionary is a free dictionary that gives definitions in 170 different languages. The dictionary only gives definitions within the language, not from language to language. Intended as a lexical companion to the encyclopedia project Wikipedia, Wictionary includes etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, and antonyms where appropriate. Users can add definitions by creating an account. Certain words for Arabic also include masdars. An audio component is included for certain languages, Arabic not among them.

This page presents a very basic and brief description of some of the most fundamental aspects of Arabic grammar, including noun gender, word order, verb conjugation, and the most common pronouns. The page covers the parts of speech and provides examples in English and Arabic.

This appendix is a compilation of various lists of words and phrases, some of which are quite brief, and some of which, like the "useful words" list, are quite extensive. Some of the materials rely on transliteration alone and therefore require no knowledge of Arabic script while others are written in Arabic. The word lists are focused on common words such as professions, greetings, common expressions, and also include a fictional dialogue of two people greeting each other.

This page contains links to an assortment of 29 articles on a wide range of grammatical topics, although there is some overlap; for example there are two articles on the idafa structure. The articles are brief as opposed to in-depth and meant to give the reader a basic understanding or review of the issues discussed.

This site provides a description of Arabic aimed at a younger audience which includes the language's history, its famous authors, where it's spoken, common phrases and traditional expressions. The text emphasizes general information over language instruction.

This website links to a document that is a dual translation of the Qur'an into English, first word by word and then sentence by sentence. Such a translation clearly shows where each word and its meaning is placed in the Arabic text if there is any confusion about the English translation of a particular verse. The document is available separately chapter by chapter under the 'lughat' button of this website and also for sale via Amazon, although downloading is permissible via this website.

4-6 weeks of distance (remote) learning content provided for middle through high school-level world language programs: Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean & Spanish courses. These units were adapted from existing Unit & Pacing guides created by teachers from Tacoma Public Schools in Washington State.

"This project was created to conjoin my two areas of study–a foreign language and media production. What inspired this project was my experience seeing other students struggle with the technological aspect of video editing, while also not enjoying the assignment overall. My aim was to address both of these issues to create fun, easy video project ideas for teachers to implement into the classroom."

- Sata Vanasouk
Fall 2019

The ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test is designed to rate students' writing skills and is offered for various languages, including Arabic. The exam can be administered to students at the ACTFL Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Superior proficiency levels who are in grades K-12 schools, college, or to those who are adults. The length of the exam is 90 minutes and it is available on-demand via the internet or in booklet form. It is rated by ACTFL Certified WPT Raters.

The Writing Proficiency Test in Arabic (WPTA) measures Arabic reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The WPTA exam is in intended for the use of college students as well as to professionals and other adults. It can be administered to anyone at any level of ACTFL proficiency level. The length of the exam is 1-2 hours.

Yamli Editor is a "smart keyboard" that allows users to type using a Roman-alphabet keyboard and transliterates the words into Arabic text. Users can type with letters, but also the numbers that are often employed in modern Arabic texting as substitutes for some Arabic letters (such as 3 for 'ein or 9 for SaD). Under the "quick tips" icon, Yamli offers a list of all the substitutions for Arabic letters that do not have exact equivalents in English.

Yamli Search enables users to search the internet in Arabic while using numerals and Latin characters. Yamli's search essentially runs transliterated phrases through Google's search engine, in order to allow users who have not memorized or activated the Arabic keyboard to search the internet in Arabic.

The Yemen Links Arabic Learning Materials page includes not just materials and printouts but ideas for games to play to get students to learn the alphabet, colors, and numbers. Materials available for free download include flashcards, coloring pages, handwriting practice, arts and crafts, and more. Although many of the games and materials are aimed at children, they can be adapted to classrooms at any level.

The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI) is a collective of research librarians and leading scholars of classical Islam, Middle Eastern history, and Arabic Literature whose mission is to preserve the Arabic manuscripts in the private libraries of Yemen. This website is the home page through which users can explore more than 100 digitized manuscripts, including topics such as law, arithmetic, medicine, Islamic studies, and more.

Yoruba‡ YŽ Mi is an interactive, communicative, introductory, multimedia program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yoruba‡. It exposes the learner not only to Yoruba‡ language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorb‡-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorb‡ including tones, and is user-friendly in its approach.

This unit introduces children to a number of concepts related to water. First, students activate and build on prior knowledge as they explore various places where water is found (e.g., lakes, rivers, swimming pools). In the second lesson, students differentiate between water found naturally (e.g., a lake) and artificially (e.g., a swimming pool). The third lesson focuses on the uses of water and its importance for human life. Next, students learn about the various states (solid, liquid, gas) that water can be found in. In the final lesson, students learn what people can do to conserve water and care for this natural resource. Throughout the lessons, students are exposed to songs and books about water. The unit culminates with as assessment that asks pairs of students to create a nonfiction question-and-answer book about a specific representation of water. Description of the assessment task with an optional technological application is also included.

This blog was created by an Arabic tutor in the U.K. who taught Arabic to his own children and saw the need for information about Arabic online as well as the need for tutoring in his area. Articles about Arabic are available on the website as is information about hiring the blog's author Haroon Sulayman as a tutor. Mr. Sulayman tutors in the U.K. as well as online. He specializes in teaching the 11-15 age group as well as Qur'anic Arabic, although almost any age is welcome.

This is a company that teaches the Lebanese language; it is argued here that it is not in fact a dialect of Arabic but a separate language. Publications forthcoming in 2013 are Lebanese at a Glance Phrasebook and CD, and 2000 Lebanese Verb Conjugations. There are also future plans to teach the Lebanese language online; currently all 101 materials are available as downloadable PDFs. Also available is a Lebanese-English-Lebanese dictionary, numbers, pronouns, and more.

This website provides information on hundreds of Arabic books and documents, from 1,001 nights to the Qur'an to many other medieval Arabic scripts and texts. 1,001 nights includes an audio component. Users can search the site for a particular author or document, or they can search by category. The site is all in Arabic.