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Please feel free to email me with other useful links (as long as they are free and contain a decent amount of content, not just one page with a few words/phrases):</p> <div><h3>General</h3> <a href="http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=63753">WordReference Arabic Resources page</a> - includes many useful links <br /><a href="http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Arabic">Free FSI courses</a> - for standard Arabic, Levantine and Saudi dialects, and comparative studies of different dialects <br /><a href="http://nmelrc.org/documents/Handbooks/ArabicHandbook.pdf">NMELRC Arabic Learner's Handbook</a> (PDF, 141 KB) - general information and tips on the learning process <br /><a href="http://varabic.wordpress.com/">V-Arabic</a> - Virtual Arabic blog with digitized language realia resources for Arabic learners &amp; teachers <br /><a href="http://www.hmaxos.com/downloads.htm">Arabic Free Downloads</a> - PDF files with information on various aspects of the Arabic language <br /><a href="http://arabicorpus.byu.edu/">Arabic Corpus</a> - a searchable Arabic corpus; great for seeing the contexts in which words are commonly used <br /><a href="http://www.yamli.com/">Yamli</a> - type and do searches in transliterated Arabic, and the site will "translate" back into Arabic script <br /><a href="http://www.memritv.org/">MEMRI TV</a> - news video clips with English translations <br /><a href="http://thearabicstudent.blogspot.com/">The Arabic Student blog</a> - contains Arabic videos with transcripts and vocabulary <br /><a href="http://al3arabiya.blogspot.com/">Learn Arabic Language website</a> - a great resource with lots of Arabic textbooks and learning materials for download <br /><a href="http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx">GLOSS learning materials</a> - do a search for Arabic, and you'll find lots of lessons based on authentic materials, on different topics, with several activities per lesson. <br /><a href="http://wte.dliflc.edu/Search.aspx">Weekly training events</a> - again, search for Arabic, and you'll find more lessons with authentic media and activities, on a variety of topics.</div><br /> <div><h3>The Arabic alphabet</h3> <a href="http://arabicreadingcourse.com/">Online Arabic reading course</a> - teaches the alphabet <br /><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/arabic/alphabet/index.html">Learning the Arabic script</a>, from Stanford <br /><a href="http://www.shariahprogram.ca/Arabic-alphabet.shtml">Arabic alphabet tutorial</a></div><br /> <div><h3>Standard Arabic</h3> <a href="http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm">Babel</a> online beginner Arabic course <br /><a href="http://www.madinaharabic.com/index.htm">Madinah</a> online course focusing on Arabic grammar <br /><a href="http://www.arabiconline.eu/">ArabicOnline.eu</a> - has an <a href="http://www.arabiconline.eu/index.php/learn-arabic/">online beginner course in Arabic</a> <br /><a href="http://arabic.tripod.com/">Arabic grammar reference</a> <br /><a href="http://learnarabicfree.info/beginners/">Arabic for Beginners</a> - another online course focusing on functional grammar <br /><a href="http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/jiyad/index.html">A Hundred and One Grammar Rules</a> by Mohammed Jiyad - a short reference grammar for beginning and intermediate learners <br /><a href="http://ags.dliflc.edu/">Arabic grammar resources</a> - a categorized database of grammar information <br /><a href="http://web1.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/art/reader2/index.php/explorer/arb/all">Al-Kitaab reading enhancement suite</a> - an interactive interface for reading texts from the Al-Kitaab series, with glossary, voweling, and audio. <br /><a href="http://readarabic.nflc.org/">Read Arabic!</a> - reading practice materials in standard Arabic, on novice and intermediate levels. The texts are accompanied by additional materials such as audio, notes, translation, and a glossary.</div><br /> <div><h3>Levantine Arabic</h3> <a href="http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/culturetalk/arab_levant/">CultureTalk Arab Levant</a> - video clips of interviews and discussions with Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and Jordanians. Most of the clips are in colloquial Arabic, some are in English. Translations are given for all non-English video clips. <br /><a href="http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/arabic/levantine/index.html">Colloquial Levantine audio and video collection</a> - audio, video, and sample syllabi for learning everyday Arabic as spoken by Jordanians, Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syrians.</div><br /> <div><h3>Syrian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.syrianarabic.com/">Syrian Arabic textbook</a> - used to be free; now costs $45 for the PDF and mp3s <br /><a href="http://hmaxos.com/Arabic idioms.pdf">Arabic idioms</a> (PDF, 590 KB) - a nice collection of over a thousand idioms used in Syrian Arabic</div><br /> <div><h3>Lebanese Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.cedarseed.com/water/lebanese.html">An Introduction to Lebanese</a> <br /><a href="http://www.abcleb.com/">ABC Lebanese Arabic</a></div><br /> <div><h3>Jordanian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/lm_jordan/joIndex.html">LangMedia: Arabic in Jordan</a> - lots of videos (with transcripts and translations) arranged by theme</div><br /> <div><h3>Moroccan Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.speakmoroccan.com/">Speak Moroccan</a> - some basic grammar and a bunch of vocabulary <br /><a href="http://www.friendsofmorocco.org/learnarabic.htm">Revised Peace Corps Moroccan Arabic book</a>, available for download as a PDF file <br /><a href="http://www.moroccanvocab.com/">Moroccan Arabic Vocab</a> - an archive of "word of the day" type posts</div><br /> <div><h3>Algerian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080822215427/http://www.pmwatch.org/dico/">The Algerian Dardja Dictionary</a> <br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041118094101/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3279/">Algerian Darjda-English dictionary</a> <br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050413100633/www.geocities.com/lameens/darja/index.html">Grammar of Algerian Darja</a></div><br /> <div><h3>Tunisian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED183018">Peace Corps Tunisian Arabic book</a> (PDF, 10.9 MB) <br /><a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED401742">Tunisian Arabic course</a> (PDF, 3.55 MB)</div><br /> <div><h3>Mauritanian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED294423">Mauritanian Arabic: Culture and Communication</a> (PDF, 5.53 MB) <br /><a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED290326">Mauritanian Arabic: Grammar</a> (PDF, 1.4 MB) <br /><a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED290327">Mauritanian Arabic: Literacy</a> (PDF, 1.56 MB)</div><br /> <div><h3>Iraqi Arabic</h3> <a href="http://languagetutors.ucla.edu/iraqitutor/index.html">Iraqi Tutor</a> - a really nice collection of eight introductory lessons on the Iraqi dialect, featuring short video clips from a popular Iraqi TV show and audio clips of dialogue and vocabulary.</div><br /> <div><h3>Gulf Arabic</h3> <a href="http://www.gulfarabic.com/index.php">Gulf Arabic.com</a> (free registration required)</div><br /> <div><h3>Egyptian Arabic</h3> <a href="http://arabic.byu.edu/ArabicMaterialIndex.htm">BYU Arabic course materials</a> - Online vocabulary, exercises, and videos for both Egyptian and standard Arabic (beginner level). <br /><a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/an-arabists-guide-to-egyptian-colloquial.pdf">An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial</a> by Daniel Pipes (PDF, 8 MB) - Written for Arabic students with a background in standard Arabic, this is a good introduction to the Egyptian dialect. <br /><a href="http://egyptianarabiccourse.blogspot.com/">Egyptian Arabic Dialect Course</a> - a series of 15 lessons using songs to teach vocabulary and grammar. <br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Wu4PAAAAYAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover">Egyptian Arabic Primer</a> by W.A. Betts, available to browse or as a free PDF download from Google Books. Note that it was published in 1902, so some of the content (vocabulary like "wabuur/babuur" for train; "Hakiim" for doctor; "mara" for woman; and so on) is outdated, but overall it's not bad considering that it's available for free online. <br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L6oYAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false">An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt</a> by Socrates Spiro, from Google Books. This book is old too (pub. 1895), but is nonetheless pretty decent for a free online resource.</div><br /> <div><h3>Online dictionaries</h3> <a href="http://dictionary.sakhr.com/">Sakhr</a> - Arabic-English, English-Arabic <br /><a href="http://www.wordreference.com/enar/">WordReference</a> - English-Arabic <br /><a href="http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Arabic-Dictionary/">Ectaco</a> - English-Arabic</div><br /> <div><h3>Arabic media online</h3> <a href="http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat/">Aswaat Arabiyya</a> - an excellent archive of videos, sorted by level of difficulty. You can even slow down the video speed. <br /><a href="http://phone.dliflc.edu/default_arabic.asp">Arabic phone conversations</a> - an excellent archive of phone conversations in Egyptian, Levantine, and Iraqi Arabic. You can sort by dialect, topic, and difficulty level. <br /><a href="http://altd.sdsu.edu/">Arabic Language and Iraqi Dialect Through Dialogue</a> - a nice collection of dialogues, 48 in standard Arabic (beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels), and 55 in Iraqi Arabic. <br /><a href="http://www.nclrc.org/webcasts/arabic/">Arabic Webcasts</a> - the news in simplified Arabic, including accompanying exercises. The site hasn't been updated in a long time, but there's still a good archive of material. <br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/">BBC Arabic</a> - includes streaming video and radio news</div><br /> <div><h4>Television news</h4> - Al Jazeera (<a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/">website</a> | <a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/channel/livestreaming">online stream</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/aljazeerachannel">YouTube channel</a>) <br />- Al Arabiya (<a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/">website</a> | <a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/live/index.php">online stream</a> - not available in the US) <br />- <a href="http://www.france24.com/ar/">France24</a> - Click on the banner reading <span class="arabic">-'DJ' 9DI A1'F3 24: 'DF41)</span> to watch their live stream. <br />- <a href="http://www.wwitv.com/">wwiTV</a> - streaming TV channels from many different countries.</div><br /> <div><h4>Newspapers</h4> - <a href="http://www.sahafa.com/">Sahafa Online</a> <br /><br /> <table> <tbody><tr><td>Egypt</td><td>Lebanon</td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.ahram.org.eg/">Al Ahram</a></td><td>- <a href="http://www.annaharonline.com/">An Nahar</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/issuse/">Al Akhbar</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/algomhuria/today/fpage/">Al Gomhuria</a></td><td>Syria</td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/">Al Masry Al Youm</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>- <a href="http://tishreen.info/">Tishreen</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.almesryoon.com/">Al Mesryoon</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.shorouknews.com/">Al Shorouk</a></td><td>Iraq</td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.alwafd.org/">Al Wafd</a></td><td>- <a href="http://www.alsabaah.com/">Al Sabah</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.gn4me.com/nahda/">Nahdet Misr</a></td><td>- <a href="http://www.azzaman.com/">Az Zaman</a></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td>Jordan</td><td>Saudi Arabia</td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.alrai.com/">Al Rai</a></td><td>- <a href="http://www.alwatan.com.sa/">Al Watan</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.addustour.com/">Ad Dustour</a></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>United Arab Emirates</td></tr> <tr><td>Palestine</td><td>- <a href="http://www.albayan.ae/">Al Bayan</a></td></tr> <tr><td>- <a href="http://www.alquds.com/">Al Quds</a></td><td>- <a href="http://www.alittihad.ae/">Al Ittihad</a></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>- <a href="http://www.alkhaleej.ae/">Dar Al Khaleej</a></td></tr> </tbody></table></div><br /> <div><h4>Magazines</h4> Egypt <br />- <a href="http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/issuse/?mag=ak">Akher Sa'a</a> <br />- <a href="http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/issuse/?mag=n">Akhbar El Nogoom</a> (entertainment news) <br />- <a href="http://www.sayidaty.net/">Sayidaty</a></div><br /> <div><h4>Music</h4> - <a href="http://www.thearabicmusic.com/">The Arabic Music.com</a> <br />- <a href="http://www.panet.co.il/online/music/L-0.html">Panet.co.il</a> <br />- <a href="http://farfesh.com/Music.asp">Farfesh</a> <br />- <a href="http://mazakony.com/forum/index.php?showforum=21">Mazakony forum</a> <br />- <a href="http://eftekes.com/index.php?showforum=5">Eftekes forum</a> (free registration required) <br />- <a href="http://www.6arab.com">Tarab.com</a> - streaming Arabic music (RealPlayer required) <br />- <a href="http://www.la7oon.com/">La7oon lyrics</a> (registration required) - Arabic lyrics site <br />- <a href="http://www.arabicmusictranslation.com/">Arabic Song Lyrics &amp; Translation</a> - translations and lyrics to more than 600 Arabic songs. <br />- <a href="http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/arabic-lyrics-translation/">Arabic Lyrics Translation forum</a> - features a large archive of song translations, and you can request (or post your own) translations of Arabic songs. <br />- <a href="http://www.shira.net/music/lyrics/fromarabic.htm">Shira.net Song Translations</a> - a bellydance website featuring lyrics in both transliterated and translated form. <br />- <a href="http://www.orientaldancer.net/arabic-song-lyrics/">OrientalDancer.net Song Lyrics</a> - more translated/transliterated lyrics from another bellydance site. <br />- <a href="http://www.asra-bellydance.com/song%20lyrics.html">Asra Bellydance song translations</a></div><br /> <div><h4>Movies</h4> - <a href="http://tv1.alarab.net/">Al Arab</a> - a great archive of streaming movies and TV shows <br />- <a href="http://www.arab-cima.com/">Arab Cima</a> - another archive of streaming movies and TV shows, including <a href="http://www.arab-cima.com/show-cat-13.html">dubbed American movies</a>. In general, fantasy and historical dramas are dubbed into standard Arabic, and contemporary-set comedies and dramas are dubbed into either Levantine or Egyptian Arabic. There are also <a href="http://www.arab-cima.com/show-cat-29951.html">some dubbed TV shows</a>. <br />- <a href="http://aflam.foraten.net/">Foraten.net</a> <br />- <a href="http://www.sotwesoora.tv/">Sotwesoora.tv</a> <br />- <a href="http://mo.salsalat.com/">Mo.Salsalat.com</a> <br />- <a href="http://www.bramjnet.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=115475">Arabic movies on Google Video</a> (sometimes this site goes down, but the <a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:OalzOPXTXVUJ:www.bramjnet.com/vb3/showthread.php%3Ft%3D115475">Google cache</a> and videos themselves will still work) <br />- <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/The_Night_of_Counting_the_Years_DVD">Al Mumiyaa'</a> (The Mummy/The Night of Counting the Years) - a famous 1969 film with dialogue entirely in fuSHa. Subtitled version <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/The_Night_of_Counting_the_Years">here</a>. <br />- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/omar1980TV#g/u">YouTube user omar1980TV</a> - many full movies, mostly old ones, starring such actors as Soad Hosni, Ismail Yassin, Farid al Atrache, Fatin Hamama, Abdel Halim Hafez, and others. <br />- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/aliallawee2000#g/u">YouTube user aliallawee2000</a> - many full movies, plays, and musalsalaat, including many of Adel Imam's most famous works. <br />- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Hind0Rostom#g/u">YouTube user Hind0Rostom</a> - a large collection of full movies starring Hind Rostom. <br />- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/tafatefo010#g/u">YouTube user tafatefo010</a> - lots of videos from various talk shows and some movies.</div><br /> <div><h4>Television &amp; video</h4> - <a href="http://shahid.mbc.net/">MBC</a> - streaming video of full episodes of many shows. You can even sort by dialect (scroll down to the <span class="arabic">%.*1 9F 71JB</span> menu on the right, then choose <span class="arabic">'DD:) H'DDG,)</span>). <br />- <a href="http://www.sonara.net/video.php">Sonara</a> - Scroll down to choose from TV series, movies, and TV programs <br />- <a href="http://www.ikbis.com/">Ikbis</a> - originally designed as an Arabic version of YouTube; you can now browse their <a href="http://www.ikbis.com/channels">channels</a> to watch cooking shows, animation, and other videos. <br />- <a href="http://www.mtv.com.lb/Featured">MTV Lebanon</a> <br />- <a href="http://www.shankaboot.com/ar">Shankaboot</a> - a Lebanese web series</div><br /> <div><h4>Radio, podcasts, &amp; other audio</h4> - <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/LaughHour_Radio_Of_Cairo">Archive of episodes from <span class="arabic">3'9) DBD(C</span></a> - a famous Egyptian comedy radio show from the '50s and '60s. <br />- <a href="http://www.france24.com/ar/">France24 - Monte Carlo Doualiya</a> - Click on the banner reading <span class="arabic">'3*E9 %DI EHF* C'1DH 'D/HDJ)</span> to listen to their radio stream. <br />- <a href="http://mijo.mypodcast.com/">Arabic Audio Books</a> - an Arabic speaker's recordings of books by Tawfiq el Hakim, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Taha Hussein, and more (including <span class="italic">The Lost Symbol</span> by Dan Brown). Currently down, but the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EEuFLHyQAoUJ:mijo.mypodcast.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a">Google cache</a> is still working. <br />- <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/xtra">BBC Xtra podcast</a> - the BBC's flagship Arabic podcast, covering social and human interest issues. Updated daily with approximately half hour long podcasts. <br />- <a href="http://alkitaab.blogspot.com/">Al-Kitaab Podcasts <br />- <a href="http://www.arabicpod.net/">ArabicPod</a> - over 100 beginner-level Arabic podcasts available for free (with registration); however, for access to higher-level podcasts, a subscription is required.</a> </div><br /> <div><h4>Books</h4> - <a href="http://abooks.tipsclub.com/">Arabic e-books in PDF format</a> (password for .rar files is tipsclub) <br />- <a href="http://www.adab.com/">Adab</a> (Arabic poetry) <br />- <a href="http://rashf.com/books/?page=home">Rashf</a> - Arabic e-book database (free registration required for download) <br />- <a href="http://www.4shared.com/">4shared</a> - If you're looking for a book (or, for that matter, a song), do a search in Arabic on this site.</div><br /> </div> <div id="footer"> <p><a href="mailto:webmaster%20(at)%20desert-sky%20(dot)%20net">Contact</a></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>