This series of books is focused on women of early Islam, including Zaynab, Safia, Aisha, and others. These short stories are simplified for young adults, and are fully voweled. The stories are taken from Islamic canon and reshaped to appeal to young readers. They are available for free download.

The Summary of Arabic Language Grammar is a book that discusses all the rules governing the Arabic Language. The book contains 60 chapters; each one of them explains a particular grammatical concept. For each topic, several examples are given to clarify it. The book is entirely in Arabic and is made available via the Syrian Story website.

This website provides a series of lists of vocabulary that can be listed either in Roman transliteration or in Arabic script. Audio is included with the words. An option for flashcards is available for each list of words. The lists are divided into categories such as 'parts of the body' and 'buying things'.

This blog focuses on teaching the Arabic Qur'an and how to recite it properly using tajweed. The strategies and materials presented are intended to be used with children versus teenagers, although some strategies for teaching the language to teenagers are also presented. Materials available include the alphabet, multiple external links to sites like Arabic alphabet songs and information about Islam, and rules of tajweed.

This is the second volume in a series of four books, first published in 1919. The series treats Arabic grammar in a highly technical way and was written to expand up the foundational Arabic text, Wright's Grammar. This volume of Elementary Arabic is divided into four sections of readings, including extract from the Qur'an, stories of warriors, hadith, and historical extracts. It ends with a glossary and a grammatical analysis of the readings.

This is the third volume in Thornton's Arabic Series. It contains more advanced readings that have only limited footnotes to explain vocabulary and grammatical issues. According to the work's author, the passages presented in this book were selected and placed in chronological order for the purpose of demonstrating the social and literary development of Arab civilization during the classical period. The book includes a glossary.

This is the final text in Thornton's Arabic Series. It contains numerous literary extracts from classical Arabic sources along with explanatory footnotes. Selections come from the Qur'an, classical travel literature, poems, historical sources, some religious texts, grammatical texts, and biographies. A glossary is included.

This is the first volume in a series of four books, first published in 1905. The series treats Arabic grammar in a highly technical way and was written as an abridgment of Wright's Grammar, a foundational text. The book is divided into three sections: introduction to the alphabet, parts of speech, and syntax.

This page contains a FAQ that attempts to answer the biggest questions that Arabic students routinely face, including everything from the general difficulty of learning the language to how to say certain things.The FAQ is extensive and based on the personal experiences of the owner of Desert-sky who is an advanced Arabic learner.

Though this website focuses on providing tours to Egypt, it offers an extensive list of words in the Egyptian dialect in both Arabic script and in transliteration. The word list includes the kinds of words you might need to know when traveling, such as "Go straight please" and "I need room service." Each word is transliterated and accompanied by an audio file. There is also an article about history of the Arabic language and the Egyptian dialect. Photo galleries on the site could be used as part of classroom instruction.

This video series consists of 5 videos in which the instructor (from the Sibaway Institute) goes through two traditional proverbs, word by word, and translates them. He explains and references several Arabic and English grammatical concepts while doing so, attempting to teach both translation skills and grammar at the same time.

Part of a larger website devoted to transliteration, this is an exam that tests the ability of the listener to hear the correct Arabic word in a phrase or sentence, and then choose the proper transliterated word via a multiple choice question. The exam keeps track of the number of words guessed correctly. Examples are taken from the Qur'an.

This article is a brief overview of linguistic issues relating to transliteration and transcription procedures. The document discusses differences between transliteration and transcription as well as areas of technology application for the two. A document that shows unicode font codes for each letter of the Arabic alphabet and five different transliteration schemes is also available for free download.

The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive includes samples taken from Egyptian, Iraqi, Najdi, North and South Levantine, and Tunisian dialects. The Arabic recordings consist almost exclusively of word lists read aloud to illustrate small differences in the pronunciation of the words. The Phonetics Laboratory includes recordings of hundreds of languages and provides them for free as source materials for phonetic and phonological research. Phonetic transcriptions are included alongside the recordings as are translations and scans of original field notes where relevant.

These four dictionaries are available for free download for use offline. Each of the four dictionaries are available from both English to Arabic as well as Arabic to English or any number of other combinations with Arabic. The four dictionaries are the Universal Dictionary, Wictionary, Wikipedia, and Omegawiki. Each of these dictionaries are also available for online use as well for those who don't want to download the information.

This fairly comprehensive website displays various conjugation rules for past and present tense verbs in a series of charts. Students are expected to read the author's explanation of the conjugation rules prior to viewing conjugated verb samples in each chart. Alongside modern standard conjugations, the site displays corresponding conjugations for Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Most categories of verbs (sound, weak, irregular, etc.) are displayed.

This is a collection of items that are for use in Arabic classrooms. There is Musical Arabic (a book and CD combo that teaches Arabic with song), Expressions and Alphabet Bingo Cards, Perfect Pics cards and CD (a selection of pictures to teach vocabulary), Arabic Alphabet in Pictures, and Arabic Classroom Expressions Pics. There are also publications that are not Arabic specific but can work for any language learning. They are all available for sale on the website.

This blog offers a wealth of realia (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations). It has an index on the right hand side that will take the viewer to relevant selections in the blog's archive. Many of the archived items are images, but there are also videos, children's books, news media, and other items. Some of the links, especially the video links, are no longer functional.

This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding culture and social material. The material listed on this subpage include social movement campaigns, aspects of everyday Arabic culture, and political cartoons. Material is available in picture, video, and text format.

This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding Arabic calligraphy. Numerous calligraphic examples are posted which demonstrate the different styles of Arabic calligraphy writing and art, most of which are well-recognized works that represent common Arabic expressions and phrases.