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Learn Arabic free in your browser — 80 lessons from A1 to B2, with flashcards and pronunciation practice. No subscription, no download.
Why learn Arabic with Langula?
One Language for the Entire Arab World
Modern Standard Arabic is the shared standard language of more than 20 countries. Unlike any individual dialect, it is understood everywhere—from Morocco to the Gulf—in news, books, government, and academia.
Decode the Arabic Script
Right to left, 28 connected letters, and forms that change with their position. Langula guides you through the writing system step by step, with transliteration to support you until you can read fluently.
Master Emphatic and Guttural Sounds
ع, ح and the emphatic consonants ص, ض, ط, ظ can determine meaning. Langula’s pronunciation scoring shows you live whether you are producing each sound correctly, until the browser’s speech recognition can reliably recognize it.
Understand the Root-and-Pattern System
Three root consonants can generate entire families of words. Once you understand the principle, you can unlock hundreds of words at once—and Langula’s lessons make this system visible from the very beginning.
A Foundation for Every Dialect
Modern Standard Arabic is the foundation on which all spoken varieties are built. Once you master it, you can learn any dialect—whether Egyptian, Gulf Arabic, or Levantine—much faster.
Free Through B2—with a Certificate
All 80 lessons, Leitner flashcards, and pronunciation scoring are free to use, with no sign-up required. Each CEFR level concludes with a measurable certificate.
How it works
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Arabic is preselected — add your source language and go.
Short daily lessons
5–20 minutes a day: new words plus due reviews.
Pronunciation & progress
Repeat aloud, watch your streak and unlock badges.
Your first Arabic words
After the very first lesson you can greet people and say thank you.
From A1 to B2 — your structured learning path
Here is how your journey is built: four CEFR levels, 80 lessons. Each lesson teaches 20 new words and 6 example sentences — flashcards and pronunciation practice lock them in before the next level unlocks.
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Learn Arabic — free and at your own pace
Modern Standard Arabic (al-fuṣḥā) is the shared standard language of the entire Arab world—an official language in more than 20 countries from Morocco to Oman, one of the six official UN languages, and the language of news, newspapers, literature, science, and formal speeches. While local dialects are spoken in everyday life, Modern Standard Arabic is the one variety understood by around 400 million people across national borders. Learning Modern Standard Arabic gives you the key to the formal, written, and international Arab world.
Modern Standard Arabic differs fundamentally from every spoken dialect. It is written from right to left in the elegant Arabic script, using 28 connected letters whose forms change depending on their position within a word. Short vowels are not normally shown in writing. Its defining features include root-based morphology (the three root consonants k-t-b produce kitāb “book”, kātib “writer”, and maktab “office”), emphatic consonants (ص ض ط ظ), the guttural sounds ع and ح, a distinct dual number, and a case system with the endings -u, -a, and -i, which dialects abandoned long ago.
The U.S. Foreign Service Institute classifies Arabic as a Category IV language—the most demanding group, requiring around 2,200 classroom hours to reach professional proficiency. The biggest challenges are the new script and writing direction, guttural and emphatic sounds unfamiliar to European ears, and the root-and-pattern system. But the investment pays off twice over: Modern Standard Arabic provides the foundation for every dialect, opens the door to 1,400 years of literature, and lets you read texts and media from across the Arab world. With structured practice, you can reach A2 in around 6 to 9 months and B1 in approximately 12 to 18 months.
Langula is designed around these exact challenges. It shows a Latin-script transliteration for every word, allowing you to start speaking from the very first minute while learning the 28 Arabic letters step by step. Browser-based pronunciation practice with live scoring gives you instant feedback on difficult emphatic and guttural sounds—and Langula never stores your audio data. The 5-box Leitner system helps vocabulary and root patterns stick for good. 80 structured lessons take you from the script and grammar to connected texts—free, with no sign-up required, on mobile or desktop, and with CEFR certificates after every level.
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