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Arabic Language tools
Dictionaries
Grammar tools:
About Arabic
- All about the Arabic Language
(by the American Association of Teachers of Arabic) is a brief and well
presented introduction to Arabic.
- The Arabic Language (by Terry
De Young) focuses on language history and offers a short description of
the language.
- Language
profiles (by UCLA language materiales project for less communly taught
languages) gives a good introduction to different varieties of Arabic.
Learn Arabic
- Apprendre l’Arabe
(by WebArabic.com) is a basic language course for beginners, in French.
- Arabic language (by Cecil Maria Cancel) is a compilation of useful Arabic phrases,
expressions and words in transliteration as well as some links to other
language ressources
- Fun
with Arabic (by Fun with Arabic.com) introduces you to the Alphabet,
some basic Arabic grammar, quizzes etc.
- Learn
Arabic (by Ajeeb) is an Arabic language course for beginners – for
free. Try it!
- Syrian Arabic (by Mary-Jane Liddicoat, Richard Lennane and Dr Iman Abdul Rahim) is a
language course for beginners. You can download the book and the
soundfiles free of charge.
Transliteration
- Romanization,
Transcription and Transliteration (by Kenneth R. Beesley) offers a
good explanation of different ways to write Arabic with Latin letters.
The Arab World
News:
- Arabic Language Newspapers (by The Paperboy.com) lists
more than 60 Arabic newspapers.
- News and Media (by the University
of Texas at Austin) contains many links to newspapers, radio and
television in Arab countries- in Arabic as well as English.
Society
- The Arab World (by l'Institut du
Monde Arabe) focuses on geography, history, economics, education etc. and
contains many beautiful photos from the region.
- Arabnet contains a lot of information about modern Arab
societies (in Arabic and English) such as news, encyclopedias, country
information, Arab cuisine etc. Sponsored by the Saudi newspaper al-Sharq
al-AwsaT.
- The Center for Middle East Studies , University of Texas at Austin is a very good gateway to www
ressources on the Middle East Societies
- The
Holy Qur'an (by Harf Information Technology) presents the Quran in
Arabic with English translations. You can also listen to the texts, search
for themes and learn rules of recitation.
- Maps of the Middle East is an
important collection of maps by University of Texas at Austin
Other Sources
- Arabic Madih (by The
Association of Islamic Charitable Projects) is a big collection of songs.
Helle Lykke Nielsen, december 1999
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