How to Learn Arabic: A Beginner’s Guide and Roadmap
Learn Arabic with a clear roadmap: choose MSA or a regional variety, understand the script, and build speaking or reading practice around your goal.
Language: Arabic
10+ Ways to Say “Hello” in Arabic and Other Arabic Greetings
Here are 10+ Arabic greetings you can use so you’ll know how to say hello in Arabic, whatever the situation.
Conversation Exchange: How an Online Language Buddy Took Me from Fear of Speaking to Confident Conversations
How I found an online language buddy for a conversation exchange, so I went from feeling scared of speaking to having real conversations in a new language.
Watch Benny Speaking in Arabic
Watch Benny reflect on his Arabic project in Brazil and Egypt, including the conversations he managed and the limits of his final level.
Nubian history: discussion in Arabic about ethnic group in Egypt
Explore Benny’s visit to Aswan and his Arabic conversation about Nubian history, culture, displacement and life in southern Egypt.
Standard Arabic or Local Dialect – Which Should You Learn First?
Modern Standard Arabic and local varieties do different jobs. Choose the right starting point for conversation, reading, formal Arabic, or all three.
How I learned to speak Arabic while living in Brazil
From the 2012 archive, Benny reflects on learning Egyptian Arabic from Brazil, the conversations he managed and the limits of his level.
There are no quantum leaps in language learning – but that doesn’t mean you can’t sprint
Benny explains why language progress rarely comes through sudden leaps, and how focused speaking practice can still produce a rapid sprint.
Pulling Back the “Magic” Curtain of Language Hacking
Watch Benny's unscripted one-month Arabic update and see the ordinary preparation, mistakes and persistence behind language-hacking results.
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