[HN Gopher] Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and com...
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       Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible
       input
        
       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.
        
       Author : adangit
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2026-03-14 16:24 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (abjadpro.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (abjadpro.com)
        
       | qarthandyc wrote:
       | It doesn't make any sound when I click the speaker icon. What's
       | wrong with this?
        
       | xeromal wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | eddythompson80 wrote:
         | At least the videos sound Levantine
        
           | xeromal wrote:
           | I was unable to listen because I'm at the airport but I was
           | really curious. Thank you!
        
       | cess11 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Raed667 wrote:
       | 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?
        
       | gramie wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | tremarley wrote:
         | Same here. Language Transfer helped me pick up so many
         | languages in a short time easily.
         | 
         | Far better than every other tool I've tried from Duolingo,
         | Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone etc.
        
         | eddythompson80 wrote:
         | > explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because
         | Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world.
         | 
         | I suspect this is actively changing and in another generation
         | or so won't be true. All major TV, movies and music production
         | has migrated to the Arab oil states since the late 2000s and
         | accelerated in the 2010s. Today all major media production
         | companies are based in the Gulf states.
        
         | confidantlake wrote:
         | Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.
        
         | sudo_cowsay wrote:
         | You got me started on learning Spanish there. So far so good.
        
       | junaid_97 wrote:
       | Nice work.
       | 
       | As others mentioned, I couldn't hear the sound.
       | 
       | There is a dire need for a good quality arabic learning app.
        
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