Learn Arabic with The Arabic Tutor

The Arabic Tutor(TM) is an Arabic teaching software for beginners that runs under the Microsoft Windows operating system. It features a User-friendly point and click interface with sound .

The program comes with two books: a userguide/companion book which has a few pages about the straight forward setup and usage in the first part and, extra explanation, examples and exercises with their solutions in the second part. A word list is provided in a mini-dictionary format for easy refernce. The Workbook is meant (and designed) for practice. It features a printed form of the letter/word (and how letters join) with easy to follow indicative arrows, a hand-written version of the above and a space for the user's practice.

The Arabic Tutor (now in version 2.0/2.0a) was designed with absolute beginners in mind, but it does not stop at the end of the alphabet. It covers the alphabet in a well structured, logical order with full explanation, pronunciation, visual guidance on how to trace the letter and join it to others. It introduces real words from the start as examples. This takes up 40% of the course. The rest concentrates on basic reading skills, sentence formation, elementary grammar and a few reading practice lessons ranging from a simple conversation to passages from the Qur'an and Hadith. Every word, phrase or sentence can be heard by a simple mouse click. The program has also a recording feature (record your own voice and listen to it and/or to the native speaker and repeat the practice until you feel comfortable with the letter/word/phrase), and a standard, searchable Windows help system. Version 2.0 added great optimization for disk space and speed along with an extra game-like joining quizzes plus the pronunciation of the complete "extra goodies" section.

This program was written for adults and the author makes no claims of its suitability for children. They should be able, though, to make use of it if assisted by an adult. The summary lesson , for example, comes with all the alphabet and allows a teach me/ quiz me modes for an interactive learning which can be especially attractive to kids. Kids will probably find EasyArabic more appealing.

Features:

• Speaking: Teaches words and sentences.
• Grammar: Basics of sentence formation
• Writing: The complete Arabic alphabet
• Reading: Various lessons included

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For version (2.0) 16-bit

• a PC running Windows 3.1 or later,
• a windows-compatible sound card,
• a 4 MB RAM (minimum) and 15 MB on the hard disk

For version 2.0a (32-bit)

• you need MS Windows 95 or NT 3.51/4.0 (and enough RAM to run the operating system!) as well.

• Multilingual Software Digest

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