Tools for learning Arabic on your own: apps, websites, dictionaries and reference tools, each checked against its official site or app-store listing. Each shows its level, the language it explains in, whether it is free, and the devices it runs on.
This section lists Modern Standard and Quranic Arabic only, as the whole site does: anything that also teaches colloquial dialects is left out. Prices are not given — only whether something is free or paid — because they change; the official site has them.
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Duolingo, Inc.
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic as used in everyday conversation, in short game-like lessons, free on phone and web.
Memrise Limited
Over 400 topic-based lessons built on everyday phrases, with short videos of native speakers.
ATi Studios SRL (part of Pearson)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic in short daily lessons, with speech recognition, a verb conjugator and a virtual conversation partner.
Rosetta Stone LLC (a division of IXL Learning)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic through immersive lessons without translation, and checks pronunciation with speech recognition.
BusyPeople LLC
Teaches the vocabulary and basic grammar of the Quran in short spaced-repetition lessons built on the stories of the prophets; works offline.
Understand Al Quran Academy (Hyderabad)
Teaches the most frequent words of the Quran through the daily prayer and the short surahs; its first course is nine hours in 19 sessions.
Universal Tarbiyah
Game-style lessons from the alphabet upward, with a Quran mode that reads verses word by word alongside everyday phrases.
Areeb Bajwa
Teaches Quranic vocabulary by spaced repetition, starting with a test of how much of the Quran you already understand.
Bayyinah Institute
A self-paced video curriculum for understanding the Qur'an in Arabic, from grammar and morphology to rhetoric and surah analysis — for comprehension, not conversation.
University of Leeds; maintained by the quran.com team
Word-by-word grammar of the whole Quran: transliteration, English gloss, part of speech and morphology for every word, plus a syntactic treebank.
Al Jazeera Media Network
Lessons built on real news, media articles and literary texts across seven levels, with grammar lessons, a placement test and an Ask-the-Teacher form.
Madinah Arabic
A long-known site of free reading and grammar lessons for self-starters, also offering paid one-to-one lessons in Arabic, Qur'an and tajweed.
Arabic For All (العربية للجميع)
Publisher of the widely used «Al-Arabiya Bayna Yadayk» series; its site hosts the series' audio, an online platform and teacher resources.
Michigan State University (Sadam Issa and Ayman Mohamed)
A free university open textbook for first-semester Arabic with audio, self-check quizzes and six themed units; usable for self-study.
Kalimah Center
Cairo-based school giving live one-on-one and group online lessons in MSA and Classical Arabic, plus Quran with tajweed; it does not teach Egyptian dialect.
Arabic Khatawaat, founded by Raja Benchekroun
Small teacher-led programme of three-month live online MSA classes by level, plus cultural events and a Morocco study-abroad option.
Almaany.com
Large multilingual online dictionary: Arabic–Arabic plus Arabic paired with English, French, Spanish, Turkish and more, with example sentences and subject-specific terms.
Searchable online Lane's Arabic–English Lexicon alongside 46 other classical works, including Lisan al-Arab and Taj al-Arus.
Taha Zerrouki (Arabeyes project)
Open-source conjugator: type a vowelled verb and get past, present, imperative, passive, subjunctive, jussive and emphatic forms; interface is in Arabic.
Reverso
Shows words and phrases translated inside real bilingual sentences, with flashcards and quizzes built from your own searches.
Ankitects Pty Ltd and open-source contributors
A spaced-repetition flashcard program that shows each card just before you would forget it; learners build their own vocabulary decks with audio and images.
LoreBrain
Free graded Arabic stories sorted by CEFR level from A0 to B2, with audio narration, vocabulary help and a quiz per story.
Alef Education Consultancy L.L.C.
Arabic for ages 3–8 through songs, videos and activities; built for schools, with teachers assigning lessons and receiving quiz results.
Jabal Amman Publishers
Over 1,200 illustrated Arabic and English stories, leveled, with read-to-me audio, recording of the child's own reading, and offline use.
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