Ways to learn Standard Arabic on your own: apps, websites, courses and graded stories, 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. Dictionaries and writing tools are under «Tools that serve Arabic».
This section lists Standard Arabic only, modern or classical, 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.
Aamir Maqsood
Short daily lessons, each adding five core Quranic words, practised with flashcards, two-way quizzes and examples from verses, then reviewed by spaced repetition.
Mohamed Amadou Garba
Teaches Quranic words and their roots from the most frequent upward, showing each word in its verse, with audio and multiple-choice or typing practice.
Hamzah Abdulla
Teaches the Arabic of the Quran through its system: roots and patterns, verb forms I to X with past, present, imperative and passive, drilled in fifteen quiz types with spaced review, plus word-by-word graded readings and short video lessons with transcripts.
Intelgx
An AI Quran tutor: read from pages matching the printed mushaf, recite from memory, or repeat after a reciter word by word, and it points out pronunciation mistakes at once. You choose the recitation (riwaya), and teachers and schools can run classes and follow their students. Subscription for those who can pay; reduced or free for those who cannot.
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. Its «News in levels» section carries news on politics, the economy, health, culture, science, literature and more, written in Standard Arabic for learners at different levels.
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.
Dr. Islam Fekry
Courses aimed at reading and understanding the Quran: an Arabic literacy course, a course on the core vocabulary of the Quran, and a memorisation track.
Michigan State University (Ayman Mohamed and Sadam Issa)
The open-licence sequel to Elementary Arabic I, already in the directory: theme-based units (family, school, weather, city life) for a second semester of standard Arabic, usable for self-study.
Fady Fouad
Grammar lessons read aloud while you follow the text, from the basics to derivatives and the morphological scale, each with examples and a quiz, then spaced-repetition review cards; an English interface was added for non-native learners.
Rules of nahw and sarf as short articles with examples and exercises, ordered from simple to advanced, for Russian-speaking learners; a web version with a practice section accompanies the app.
University of Zurich, Asien-Orient-Institut (continuing education)
Live online classes of six to eight learners, once a week, on reading and hearing Arabic news: the vocabulary and collocations of the press, newspaper and magazine texts with TV and radio extracts, in four levels from B1 to C1, taught in Fusha.
Arabic Language Institute, King Saud University
A free self-study course in contemporary standard Arabic: twelve units of seven lessons each, with listening videos you can pause and replay, interactive exercises, and three automatically marked 100-question tests.
Pendragon Education (project funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme)
A self-study web course in Modern Standard Arabic from A1 to B2, in Arabic script or transliteration, with audio dialogues, worksheets, an e-book and a glossary, and CEFR tests with certificates in the premium tier.
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.
LoreBrain
Free graded Arabic stories sorted by CEFR level from A0 to B2, with audio narration, vocabulary help and a quiz per story.
Yunus (Jonas) Andreasson
Short passages from classical Islamic authors — Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Nawawi and others — in Arabic beside an English rendering that keeps the Arabic word order; tap a word for its meaning and sound, and the words you miss come back for review.
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.
Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC
A library of levelled Arabic stories with cartoons, games and worksheets, with placement and learning paths for non-native children; schools can set assignments and follow progress.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives
Free video lessons following the school Arabic curriculum — reading basics, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, writing, rhetoric, poetry and calligraphy — with questions after each video, plus a companion site of illustrated children's stories.
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