Novel Arabic is an experiment using Immersive-Reading for learning deeply literary languages. “Immersive” refers to saturating the text with audio. We have transformed entire adventure novels like "1001 Nights", into immersive-reading experiences. Every word has been narrated and aligned with the text. Even the spaced-repetition flashcards are fully narrated.

Learning a language requires a tremendous amount of high-comprehension practice. Hundreds of hours of decoding is required until the practice gradually becomes subconscious and reflexive. For the student, this exercise is hard work no matter what! Our intention is to shorten and smooth the learning curve by getting to bulk, high-comprehension decoding as fast as possible.

To start: just create a free account. We won’t share your information, but we do need an account to provide tracking of completed paragraphs and flashcards. Also, we may periodically send out emails with important update announcements.

For absolute beginners, look in the “Books” menu for the “Immersive Arabic Primer”. This primer will take you through the basic grammar and vocabulary of Arabic in 20-30 days. In a few short weeks, you’ll be ready to start reading short-stories.

Next (or for intermediate students) just begin reading your first book. “Stories from Kalila wa Dimna”, a collection of 43 children’s fables. These are great because they are full of funny stories with lots of animal names, repeating nouns, and relatively simple grammar.

Each chapter (of the storybooks) has a deck of flashcards which you will memorize. After finishing the flashcards, go through each paragraph using the “A. full” task button. This is the first of three “study” tasks for each paragraph. Complete the entire chapter three times -- once with each study-mode button!

After you finish studying each chapter, switch to “reading” mode and re-read all the chapters from the beginning of the book! This is where real language-learning happens. Everything until this point was a crutch to get you to full-speed, bulk, high-comprehension audio and visual decoding. This stage of practice is the holy grail of language absorption. So keep your focus and complete at least one chapter and one full re-read every day!

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