Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
qarthandyc
It doesn't make any sound when I click the speaker icon. What's wrong with this?
xeromal
Arabic language learning resources are few and far between. Thank you for building this. Do you know which Arabic this teaches? Koranic? Modern Standard? Levantine? Gulf?
cess11
Are the vocalisations of the letters synthetic? Edit: If I wasn't acquainted with arabic script I'd probably not be able to make out the difference in vocalisation between some letters.
Raed667
Saw a couple of words that (as far as I know) aren't "modern standard Arabic" is there any bias towards a dialect or another?
gramie
For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org . It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world. It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language and can't recommend it highly enough.
junaid_97
Nice work. As others mentioned, I couldn't hear the sound. There is a dire need for a good quality arabic learning app.
gnabgib
This should just be a normal post, if you didn't make it, it can't be a Show HN > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html