Arabically vs Badhra

Arabically teaches Arabic from English, one short lesson at a time. Every lesson explains one piece of grammar in plain words, gives you the words you need, lets you read a real Arabic text, and ends with a short test. Seven levels take you from the first letter to the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik. A LESSON IN FOUR STEPS • Grammar: one idea at a time, explained the way a good teacher would, with diagrams and examples you can tap. • New words: flashcards with the plural, the root and an example sentence for every word. • A story: a short text that uses the grammar and the words. Tap any word to see what it means. • A short test: questions on what you just learned, with every answer explained at the end. LEARN THE WORDS THAT MATTER More than 16,000 words, each with its meaning, root and an example. Words you learn come back for review just before you would forget them, so they stay. Bookmark hard words, make your own lists, and practise with flashcards, a speed round and matching pairs. READ REAL ARABIC A library of 74 stories, letters and dialogues, written for every level, from simple stories to classical prose. Tap any word for its meaning in that sentence and its base form, and show the translation of a line when you need it. HANS WEHR AND LANE'S LEXICON Look up any word or root in Arabic, English or Latin letters. See every verb form and noun of a root together, and how often the root appears in the Qur'an. Both dictionaries work offline. SEVEN LEVELS 1 Letters (Pre-A1): the alphabet and the vowel marks 2 Foundations (A1): nouns, possession and first sentences 3 Builder (A2): verbs, plurals and the signs of i'rab 4 Intermediate (B1): the Ajurrumiyya and the verb forms 5 Upper Intermediate (B2): weak verbs and Qatr an-Nada 6 Advanced (C1): advanced syntax and rhetoric 7 Mastery (C2): the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik and classical texts A short placement test finds your level, so you start where it makes sense. The course follows the order of well-known books such as the Madinah series, an-Nahw al-Wadih and the Ajurrumiyya. MADE FOR DAILY USE • A plan built around your level and the minutes you have each day • Daily goals, a streak and reminders at the time you choose • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Light and dark mode, and an adjustable Arabic font and size • Works offline; your progress is saved to your account if you make one • No ads ARABICALLY PRO Arabically is a subscription app. Arabically Pro gives you full access to all levels, lessons, the reading library, both dictionaries and all practice. • Choose a yearly or a monthly subscription. New subscribers can start with a free trial. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. • The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the period. • You can manage and cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. • Prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. Terms of use: https://arabically.app/terms/ Privacy policy: https://arabically.app/privacy/ Questions? support@arabically.app

Badhra is a learning platform for Modern Standard Arabic. It also has a dictionary, and you can look a word up from anywhere inside it. A GARDEN, NOT A LIST OF COURSES What you learn is planted in one place, and the pieces feed each other. Save a word while reading, and it comes back in your review deck, turns up in the sentences you can already read, and stands beside the next word from the same root. Nothing sits in its own corner. WHAT IS IN IT A guided course that begins at the alphabet, so you can start from nothing. If you already read Arabic, you skip it and go straight to the words. A course you build yourself: name a topic and a level. A reading library across five levels, with audio that highlights each word as it is read. Dialogues to read, to take a role in, and to say out loud. A chat that answers in Arabic at your level and afterwards tells you what went wrong, anchored to what you actually wrote. The vine: sentences pulled from the whole library that you can already read, because every word in them is one you know. Next to them the ones with exactly one new word, which is where reading starts to carry you. Roots. Most Arabic words grow from a three-letter root, and the family is visible in the spelling. Badhra shows it every time and says so when a new word shares a root with one you already have. Grammar lessons, Arabic word patterns explained with examples, and colouring that marks case endings in a text only where they are certain. TAP ANY WORD, ANYWHERE In a lesson, a reading text, a dialogue, a phrase, a chat reply. Tap it and you get the meaning, the root, the pattern it is built on, the pronunciation, example sentences, the other words from that root, and the full conjugation for verbs. Everything is written with full vowel marks, so you always know how it is read. REVIEW THAT ASKS IN EVERY WAY What you save comes back on the day you are about to forget it, and it is not the same question every time. Recognise it, produce it from English, hear it, fill it into a gap, meet it inside a sentence, conjugate it, put a scrambled sentence back in order, build it letter by letter, follow its root family, or say it out loud and have your pronunciation checked. Whichever direction you are weak in, there is a mode that goes that way. HOW IT TEACHES Testing yourself beats re-reading. In the classic experiment (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006) learners who tested themselves once remembered markedly more a week later than learners who re-read the same material several times, while feeling less confident about it. Feeling of learning and learning are not the same measurement, and Badhra is built on the second one. Words come back spread across days rather than drilled in one sitting, because memories built over time last longer. You read sentences you can almost read, not sentences three levels above you. There are no streak animations designed to keep you opening the app. The day has an end, and Badhra tells you when you have reached it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It will not make you fluent, and it does not pretend that any app can. Arabic takes longer than the promises you have read elsewhere, and its middle is uncomfortable: far enough in that beginner material feels easy, far enough from the end that real texts still push back. Badhra says so on its own pages instead of hiding it behind a progress bar. Word lookups are produced by a model and then checked against curated sources: a morphological database, a curated particle table, and deterministic conjugation. Where those sources disagree, Badhra shows nothing rather than guessing, because a wrong root is worse than a missing one. There is a report button on every word, and reports are read. PRIVACY No ads, no trackers, nothing sold. Looking a word up needs no account. You can export everything you have saved, and you can delete your account from inside the app.