# Parallel Arabic

> Parallel Arabic teaches Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Moroccan Darija, and Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) through interactive lessons, native-audio stories, vocabulary spaced-repetition, handwriting practice, and an AI conversation tutor with real-time pronunciation feedback. The app is built around dialects spoken in real life — not just textbook MSA — and lets learners generate practice material around words they actually want to use.

## About

- [About Parallel Arabic](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about): How the app teaches Arabic across four dialects and what makes it different from Duolingo and traditional textbook courses.
- [FAQ](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/faq): Common questions about supported dialects, beginner-friendliness, mobile availability, and how the AI features work.
- [Support](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/support): How to reach the team for help.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/privacy): How user data is handled.

## Learn an Arabic Dialect

- [Egyptian Arabic](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic): Stories, vocabulary, lessons, and speaking practice in the most-spoken Arabic dialect, used across Egypt and widely understood in film and music.
- [Levantine Arabic](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/levantine): Vocabulary and writing practice for the dialect spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine.
- [Moroccan Darija](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/darija): Vocabulary and writing practice for the dialect of Morocco — the dialect least intelligible to other Arabic speakers and hardest to find learning resources for.
- [Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha)](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/fusha): The formal written and broadcast form of Arabic used across the Arab world and in religious contexts.

## Core Learning Features

- [Arabic Alphabet](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/alphabet): Learn to read and write the Arabic script from scratch, with native audio for every letter.
- [Lessons](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/lessons): Structured learning paths organized by module and topic, available in all four dialects.
- [Vocabulary](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/vocabulary): Browsable word lists with audio, transliterations, English translations, and the ability to save words to a personal wordbank.
- [Stories](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/stories): Short stories with synchronized native audio, word-by-word interlinear translations, and the ability to tap any word for a definition in context.
- [Sentence Practice](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/sentences): Type or reorder Arabic sentences with real-time per-character correctness feedback and an on-screen Arabic keyboard.
- [Speaking Practice](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/speak): Speak Arabic out loud and get character-level pronunciation feedback comparing what you said to the target.
- [AI Tutor](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/tutor): Free-form conversation with an AI tutor in your target dialect, with corrections, vocabulary explanations, and audio replies.
- [Interactive Videos](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/videos): YouTube videos for Arabic learners with synchronized transcripts, translations, and tap-for-definition.
- [Arabic Games](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/learn/game): Vocabulary games in multiple choice, listening, matching, and speaking modes across all four dialects.
- [Verb Conjugation Practice](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/conjugations): Drill Arabic verb conjugation across past, present, future, and imperative in any dialect.
- [Egyptian Arabic Conjugation Tables](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/conjugations): Full conjugation tables for 72 common Egyptian Arabic verbs, with transliteration and English for every form.
- [Egyptian Arabic Phrases](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/phrases): How to say hello, thank you, happy birthday and other everyday phrases in Egyptian Arabic, with tashkeel, transliteration, audio and the forms for a man, a woman or a group. Also available for [Levantine](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/levantine/phrases), [Darija](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/darija/phrases) and [Fusha](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/fusha/phrases).
- [Egyptian Arabic Words](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/word): Common Egyptian Arabic vocabulary, each word with audio and real example sentences drawn from the site's stories.
- [Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary by Topic](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/vocabulary): Frequency-ranked Egyptian Arabic word lists grouped by topic — numbers, food and drink, family, colors, time, the body and more — each word with tashkeel, transliteration, the franco spelling used in text messages, and real example sentences. Every list ends with a free practice round mixing multiple choice and speaking out loud.
- [Egyptian Arabic Numbers](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/vocabulary/numbers): Counting in Egyptian Arabic from zero to a million, plus the ordinals and fractions, with Arabic script, pronunciation and audio.
- [Egyptian Arabic Pronunciation](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/pronunciation): The six sound changes that separate Egyptian Arabic from Modern Standard Arabic — ج pronounced as a hard g, ق as a glottal stop, ث and ذ losing their "th", the throat letters ع and ح, the emphatic letters, and the b- present-tense prefix — each with examples and audio.
- [Egyptian Arabic for Beginners](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic/beginners): A step-by-step order for learning Egyptian Arabic from scratch, from the alphabet through the first hundred words to a first conversation, with the free page that covers each step.

## Comparing the Dialects

- [Egyptian Arabic vs Levantine](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic-vs-levantine): Pronunciation, verb prefixes, negation and question words compared, with the same phrases side by side.
- [Egyptian Arabic vs Fusha](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic-vs-fusha): How the spoken dialect differs from the written standard, and which to learn first.
- [Egyptian Arabic vs Darija](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/egyptian-arabic-vs-darija): The widest gap between two Arabic dialects, and why Darija is hard for eastern speakers.
- [Levantine vs Fusha](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/levantine-vs-fusha), [Levantine vs Darija](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/levantine-vs-darija), [Darija vs Fusha](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/darija-vs-fusha): The remaining pairings.

## Writing

- [Blog](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/blog): Articles on Arabic pronunciation, the alphabet, and writing Arabic in Latin script.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/pricing): Free tier plus a $10/month Premium subscription that unlocks all dialects, structured lessons, unlimited AI-generated practice, and full audio content.

## Tools & Add-ons

- [Mobile App](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/mobile-app): Parallel Arabic is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free to download. There is no Android app; on Android and desktop the site installs as a Progressive Web App.
- [Anki Decks](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/anki-decks): Pre-built Anki flashcard decks for each supported dialect.
- [Arabic Keyboard](https://www.parallel-arabic.com/keyboard): A custom on-screen Arabic keyboard usable inside the writing and sentence-practice exercises.