You Can Now Learn Arabic on Duolingo
From today on, you can learn Arabic using Duolingo .
Like the service’s other language courses, the Arabic course teaches you the language in five-minute lessons that are more like a game than a class. The lessons adapt to your learning style and offer instant feedback so you can get a good feel for how you are doing with the language as you learn.
Arabic is often considered a “difficult” language to learn, in part because of the complexity of its grammar. Arabic also uses a different alphabet than English, which can make it more difficult for native English speakers to learn than languages such as French or Italian, which use the same alphabet.
The Arabic course will teach Modern Standard Arabic, but Duolingo notes that it will be a less formal, spoken version of Arabic. Duolingo describes it as “not a version that will appear in poetry or official news releases, but instead a version that will be used when the announcer stops reading the script and starts talking to the other person. It is a variant of the language that can be used in conversation, but it can also be used with the widest range of Arabic speakers. “
According to Duolingo, research has shown that 34 hours of a Duolingo course is equal to a semester of university-level language learning. This means that if you are committed to learning a language, you can potentially learn as much as in class. The difference, of course, is that Duolingo is free and you can do it in your spare time.
If you want to start learning today, the Duolingo Arabic course is available both online and in the company’s mobile apps , which are available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.