The following is the overall syllabus for UvA Talen Arabic 2, August-September 2019. The syllabus is based on a previous course and will be updated each week with current information as the course progresses. A couple of useful links: Audio vocabulary flashcards on Memrise. Mastering Arabic official resources. And also a couple of important points: …
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Duolingo: Descriptions 1
Welcome to the Descriptions 1 skill in Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic. The Descriptions 1 skill introduces the letters س siin, ع 3ayn, and ل laam. The ـّـ shadda is also introduced, which is a diacritic used to indicate a doubled consonant. The official Tips and Notes for this skill (which are quite sparse) …
Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic
The Duolingo Arabic course was released out of beta in early July 2019. I am currently writing a guide to the course and am posting this material to this site as I write it. The course consists of 31 skills. As of July 18, 2019, I have written guide pages for the following skills: Alphabet …
Duolingo: Alphabet 4
Welcome to the Alphabet 4 skill in Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic. The Alphabet 4 skill introduces the letters م miim and ت taa’, plus two more diacritical marks: the ُ ḍamma (used to write the short vowel u) and the ِ kasra (used to write the short vowel i). The official …
Arabic 1 syllabus, July 2019
The following is the overall syllabus for UvA Talen Arabic 1, July 2019, a semi-intensive course. This syllabus is based on the syllabus for a previous course and will be updated with current information as the course proceeds. Some useful links: Bite-Size Arabic website. And also a couple of administrative points: Please write to your …
Duolingo: Alphabet 3
Welcome to the Alphabet 3 skill in Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic. The Alphabet 3 skill does not introduce any new letters. What it does present are new shapes of some letters you have already learned. However, I have already discussed these shapes in my page on Alphabet 2. For this reason, only a …
Duolingo: Alphabet 2
Welcome to the Alphabet 2 skill in Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic. The Alphabet 2 skill introduces three new letters (ذ dhaal, ج jiim and ب baa’), and you also learn how a given letter can have as many as four different shapes. One new Arabic word is introduced, as well as a few …
Duolingo: Alphabet 1
Welcome to the Alphabet 1 skill in Dr. Bulbul’s Guide to Duolingo Arabic. The Alphabet 1 skill introduces six letters (و waaw, ا ’alif, ي yaa’, د daal, ر raa’, and ز zaay), as well as the diacritical mark َ fatḥa (used to write the short vowel a). No actual words are introduced, the …
Duolingo Arabic: Alphabet 1, 2, 3, and 4
I have just (July 2, 2019) worked through level 1 of the first four skills of the Duolingo Arabic course: Alphabet 1, 2, 3, and 4. These four skills teach you eleven letters of the Arabic alphabet (about a third of them), a few diacritical marks, and about twelve words, most of them proper names …
Arabic 2 syllabus, April-June 2019
The following is the overall syllabus for UvA Talen Arabic 2, April–June 2019. The syllabus is based on a previous course and will be updated each week with current information as the course progresses. A couple of useful links: Audio vocabulary flashcards on Memrise. Mastering Arabic official resources. And also a couple of important points: …