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The 8 modules
The Dot Families
Twenty-eight Arabic letters are built from far fewer shapes, and dots do most of the distinguishing work.
Six Letters That Refuse to Hold Hands
Arabic letters join to both sides — except six, which join only on the right, and those six are why words look like they have gaps.
Prices in the Souq
Market Arabic is short, direct and identical from Nouakchott to Omdurman, and it is the fastest useful Arabic you can own.
The Sounds Behind the Tongue
Arabic has consonants made in the throat and the back of the mouth that no European language uses, and these are what mark out a real speaker.
The Words of School and Scholarship
Almost every word about learning in Arabic is built from a small number of roots, so the whole field arrives as one connected set.
One Root, Five Words
The three consonants k-t-b carry the idea of writing, and pouring them into different patterns produces an entire family of related words.
Read the Signs on a Real Street
Public Arabic signage uses a small closed vocabulary, and once you have it you can navigate a street in any Arabic-speaking city.
Capstone: Write and Speak a Real Message
Today you write a short message in your own hand in Arabic script and deliver a full spoken introduction to a real person.
Your teenager will finish able to read and write joined Arabic script, produce the difficult pharyngeal consonants, recognise the three-letter root system that underlies the whole language, read public signage, and write and speak a short real message. Arabic is an official language across North Africa, widely used in the Sahel and the Horn, one of the working languages of the African Union, and — where it matters to the family — the language of the Qur'an.