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Memrise for Arabic
Arabic, Apps, Audio Lessons, Flashcards, Multimedia, Vocabulary, Websites, Kids
I am now a hard-core Memrise addict. It is all over for me, but stop reading here and you could be saved from a similar fate. Still reading? Beware, compulsive types! If you try this website—which is free, making…
Practice Makes Perfect: Arabic Vocabulary
Arabic, Books, Vocabulary
I haven’t used Practice Makes Perfect: Arabic Vocabulary by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, because it wasn’t around when I was studying Arabic. I would certainly have tested it if it had been!
Visual Education Arabic Vocabulary Cards
Arabic, Flashcards, Vocabulary
This product from Visual Education includes 1,000 vocabulary cards, each of which contains an Arabic word, and sometimes additional related words. I used them back in 2009 when I was studying Arabic, and was mystified by some of the choices made in…
Your First 100 Words in Arabic: Beginner’s Quick & Easy Guide to Demystifying Arabic Script
Arabic, Books, Flashcards, Vocabulary
This book by Mahmoud Gaafar is one of a series of similarly titled books for various languages. The concept for the series comes from Jane Wightwick (who also wrote the Easy Arabic Grammar reviewed in this directory).
VocabuLearn Arabic
Arabic, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn Arabic comes in two different levels, for a total of six hours of vocabulary instruction. Each level of this product, originally published by Penton Overseas, used to consist of four CDs organized by parts of speech: nouns, adjectives and…
FlashcardExchange.com
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FlashcardExchange.com claims to be the “world’s largest flashcard library.” It was founded in 2001 by a guy named Culley Harrelson, who was studying for an exam using a giant stack of paper flashcards. Apparently he didn’t find…