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Learn to Read and Write Arabic For Beginners (Udemy.com)

The Ultimate Arabic Reading and Writing Course for All Levels

Created by: Abdul Wahid

Last updated September 2019

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What you will learn

  • Learn how to recognise, read, and pronounce perfectly the Arabic language
  • Learn what the Arabic letters look like in their various forms
  • Read Arabic literature fluently in its natural connected form
  • Practice their Arabic writing skills
  • Practice their Arabic listening skills
  • Learn the meanings of many day to day words as a natural consequence of the learning process
  • Learn a unique method of memorising and remembering letters
  • Be in a strong position to study Arabic grammar

How it compares

Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 64% of them
  • Reviews1,283#158 of 536 by number of reviews
  • Length5.5 hoursshorter than 49% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 84% of them

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Course Description

Synopsis: ‘Learn to Read and Write Arabic’ is wonderfully refreshing Arabic reading course that takes learners with absolutely no knowledge in the Arabic language on a path towards reaching reading fluency like a native. As the tagline states, it’s ‘your first steps towards learning the Arabic language’.

High Quality Full HD Video Lessons: 60 videos and approximately 4.5 hours of the highest quality, fully animated, engaging content, taught to you by myself, a professional Arabic teacher, with around 10 years’ experience of teaching Arabic.

Interactive Exercises: Student interaction is what keeps individuals engaged and interested and more likely to complete the course. That’s why this course is filled with around 40 videos, and just over 3.5 hours of high quality, fully animated, fully interactive exercises that will get keep you engaged, interested, and on your way towards Arabic fluency.

So, are you ready to take your first steps towards learning Arabic…? 

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Instructor Details

Abdul Wahid

I have been studying and teaching Arabic in various institutes for nearly ten years now which have included both London based schools and establishments, as well as institutes in Egypt where I spent an extended period of time. During this time, I have witnessed an array of different approaches to teaching Arabic. These have included repetition, visual imagery, attentive listening, and a sundry of other methodologies.  

One thing that I noticed when teaching Arabic grammar to students who had already learnt how to read Arabic was that in fact, they hadn’t actually learnt how to read Arabic correctly or fluently enough to be able to take on the more complicated grammar. They’d often make reading errors, struggled to keep up with the rules, couldn’t grasp many of the concepts, and simply lacked confidence in their studies. These were otherwise intelligent individuals and so their lack of progress really perplexed me.   

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Reviews

4.7

1,283 ratings on Udemy

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By Loveleen Vinaykumar Raval on 5/6/2026

An amazing course—I absolutely loved it! The way Arabic reading and writing are taught is incredibly simple and easy to follow. The examples provided are clear, practical, and make understanding the concepts effortless. It really helped build my confidence step by step. Highly recommended for anyone looking to learn Arabic reading in a structured and enjoyable way!

By Donald Winiecki on 2/12/2026

Overall a very good -- and very quick -- run through basic reading, pronunciation, hearing, and writing! There were occasions where audio pronunciation in the modules didn't seem to match the hearing exercises. This could be due to my own hearing, or to nuances of pronunciation that were not covered in the instruction and exercises.

By Adnan Ustad on 4/4/2024

Course content is good and the speaker has very good in-depth knowledge of the subject. Also, he emphasized more on writing and reading rather than just simply learning and pronouncing the words in Arabic Language.

By Farid Karadsheh on 12/11/2023

The course is great at introducing a topic and providing plenty of practice to commit the lesson to memory. The only thing that has tripped me up was the reading practice prior to learning connected reading. I felt I had spent so much time practicing my reading only to learn that I was practicing incorrectly. I definitely would say this course is helping me further my reading and writing abilities; however, I do not feel my vocabulary has improved very much. During the reading exercises I regularly found myself struggling to pronounce a sentence correctly, but not have an understanding of what I was actually saying.

By Hanspeter Siegfried on 2/12/2021

Ich finde es sehr gut, wie die Formen der Buchstaben und die Aussprache erklärt werden. Was mir weniger gefällt, sind zwei Dinge: 1. die Untertitel, die offensichtlich automatisch generiert und oft falsch sind, 2. dass es keine immanente Repetition gibt. – Revision nach der Hälfte des Kurses: Es *gibt* immanente Repetition. Die Untertitel finde ich immer noch störend. Sonst ist der Kurs wirklich gut und effektiv.

By Mirjam Dubelaar on 11/2/2020

This course is the perfect place to start learning Arabic. For an absolute beginner like me, this course was extremely helpful. The material is offered in manageable steps and kept me interested to the end. This brought me to a stage where I can fairly well transliterate Arabic texts that include vowels, and I'm ready to really start learning the language. That was more than I expected, thanks for a great course!

By Md Javed Akhtar on 10/18/2020

It is great for learning

By Susan Rady on 9/12/2020

This was a really good course for me. I've tried many times to get to grips with reading and writing Arabic and always given up because I found it too difficult. So with this course I went right back to square one and re-learnt the alphabet (some of which I'd forgotten).
This course is really well structured and you gradually build up your knowledge in very manageable stages. Everything is very well explained.
This isn't a child friendly course - its for adults who are serious about learning the skill of reading Arabic.
I thought I might learn some Arabic with this course and if that's the outcome you're looking for then this is not the course for you. If however you want to learn the skill of reading Arabic then I would highly recommend it - as they say it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Thank you.

By Susan Rady on 9/7/2020

This was a really good course for me. I've tried many times to get to grips with reading and writing Arabic and always given up because I found it too difficult. So with this course I went right back to square one and re-learnt the alphabet (some of which I'd forgotten). This course is really well structured and you gradually build up your knowledge in very manageable stages. Everything is very well explained. This isn't a child friendly course - its for adults who are serious about learning the skill of reading Arabic. I thought I might learn some Arabic with this course and if that's the outcome you're looking for then this is not the course for you. If however you want to learn the skill of reading Arabic then I would highly recommend it - as they say it does exactly what it says on the tin. Thank you.

By Javed Akhter Ansari on 8/27/2020

Good manner for teaching

By Gilbert Parris on 8/18/2020

It is definitely a good match for me. I have been using duolingo for months, this covers precisely what I need to understand the alphabet, great job!

By Ruslan on 8/17/2020

The animated lessons are amazing, they help to remember better and faster. Thank you )

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Overall Score : 94 / 100