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28 letters — the whole writing system
Arabų kalbaFrom your first Arabic letter to your first real text
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02The system
IT LOOKSIMPOSSIBLEUNTIL YOU SEETHE SYSTEM
Arabic is not chaos. Almost every word grows out of a three-consonant root, and the vowels are written as marks above and below the letters. Once you see the system, you stop learning words one at a time.
03Why Arabic
A hard language trains your mind
Arabic is built unlike any European language: it runs right to left, and almost every word grows from a three-consonant root. You are not just learning words, you are learning a different way of assembling meaning. Few things exercise memory and attention as thoroughly.
Markets where the language opens doors
The Gulf, Egypt, North Africa. Regions where negotiations, contracts and long relationships often begin with whether you greeted someone in their own language.
A rare skill in Lithuania
Almost nobody here speaks Arabic, precisely because it is considered too hard. That is what makes it valuable: little competition, and growing demand.
But won't AI just translate it?
A translator carries information perfectly well. It does not carry the relationship. In a negotiation or someone's home, what matters is not only what was said but that you understood without a middleman: the pause, the register, the joke a second before the subtitle. Machines still flatten dialect and formality toward an average. The person across the table hears the difference immediately.
A key to fourteen centuries of text
The Quran, classical poetry, treatises on medicine and mathematics, calligraphy. This inheritance shaped half the world, and much of it still reads best in the original. A translation explains the content; the rhythm, the sound-play and the deliberate ambiguity only arrive when you read it yourself.
What you actually learn
الْعَرَبِيَّة الْفُصْحَىal-ʿarabiyya al-fuṣḥā
Modern Standard Arabic
This course teaches al-fusha, or Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It is the shared written language of books, newspapers, official documents and news broadcasts from Morocco to Oman.
كkāf
تtāʾ
بbāʾ
04The root
ك ت ب“to write”
writer
desk
library
ONE ROOT. A WHOLE FAMILY OF WORDS.
05Harakat
Without vowels — three different words
كتب
كَتَبَ
كُتُب
كُتِبَ
Arabic is normally written without its vowels — you are expected to guess them from context. In this course every one of them is written in, from the first lesson to the last.
FULLY VOCALIZED FROM THE FIRST WORD
06Five steps
01
Prepare
The words fall into place before the first sentence.
02
Read
You read the Arabic. The translation waits under the line.
03
Listen
You hear it before you say it.
04
Shadow
You repeat aloud until it sounds natural.
05
Check
You answer from memory, without going back to the text.
07Spaced repetition
YOU REVIEW ONLY WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO FORGET
- 1
- 3
- 7
- 21
- 60
Time → days
The system picks what you review today.
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08Index
- Course
- ARABIC FOR LITHUANIANS
- Lessons
- 2
- Vocabulary
- 255 WORDS WITH MNEMONICS
- Grammar
- 57 RULES
- Exercises
- 209 WITH INSTANT CHECKING
- Texts
- 5 TO READ AND LISTEN TO
- Review
- SPACED REPETITION
- Interface
- LT / EN
- Price
- €14.90 / MO
ALL OF IT IN ONE SUBSCRIPTION
09The goal
الْكِتَابُ عَلَى الْمَكْتَبِ
al-kitābu ʿalā l-maktabi
“The book is on the desk.” — a sentence from lesson two.
FROM ZEROTO REAL CONVERSATION.
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14-day money-back guaranteeWhy they started
AgnėI wanted to learn, and in Lithuania there is almost nowhere to.
JustasI am preparing to move to the UAE for work.
NojusI met a girl from Jordan. I want to talk with her family.