Learn Arabic through the language you already speak
Hebrew and Arabic are sister Semitic languages, grown from the same ancient root stock. They build words from the same three-letter roots, mirror each other's grammar — definite articles, construct chains, gendered verbs — and share hundreds of everyday words. Hebrabic teaches Modern Standard Arabic — and the street Arabic of the Levant, Egypt, or Morocco, your pick — by starting from what you already know.
Start here
A suggested path from your first letter to full sentences.
- 1AlphabetMeet all 28 letters through their Hebrew cousins.
- 2ReadingVowel marks, letter joining, and sounding out real words.
- 3VocabularyBuild a word bank sorted by how close each word is to Hebrew.
- 4GrammarRoots, noun phrases, and sentences that mirror Hebrew patterns.
- 5PhrasesEveryday dialogues in MSA and your spoken dialect — Levantine, Egyptian, or Moroccan — line by line.
- 6DrillsFlashcards and quizzes with spaced repetition to make it stick.
Which Arabic will you speak?
Every lesson is built on Modern Standard Arabic, the written language the whole Arab world shares. Pick the spoken dialect you want on top of it, and every street form, letter note, verb table, and dialogue follows.
Explore the modules
Each module stands on its own — jump in wherever you like.
Alphabet
28 lettersEvery Arabic letter side by side with its Hebrew cousin — all four forms, the sound, and a pronunciation tip.
Open moduleReading
8 lessonsShort lessons on vowel marks, letter joining, and reading your first real words out loud.
Open moduleVocabulary
1,617 wordsWords organized by topic and tagged by their relationship to Hebrew — cognates, false friends, and loans.
Open moduleGrammar
22 lessonsRoots and patterns, noun phrases, and sentence building — with the Hebrew parallel drawn at every step.
Open modulePhrases
14 dialoguesEveryday scenes — greetings, the market, a taxi ride — played out line by line in MSA and the dialect you choose: Levantine, Egyptian, or Moroccan.
Open moduleRoots
20 familiesThe three-letter engine both languages share — one root, a whole family of words in Arabic and Hebrew alike.
Open moduleDrills
Flashcards & quizzesSpaced-repetition flashcards and quick quizzes that schedule each review just before you would forget.
Open moduleAravrit
315 folded wordsThe half-and-half script: Arabic on top, Hebrew below, one letter for both. Cover a half, move the fold, then read the whole site that way.
Open moduleDaily goal
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Your progress
Spaced-repetition reviews across letters and vocabulary, saved on this device.
Cognate spotlight
Words you (almost) already know — a fresh handful on every visit.