Read-along Language App to Learn Arabic: Adventure Stories with Audio Flashcards

Novel Arabic is a free new app designed to teach beginner and intermediate Arabic learners the language through read-along books. It uses adventure-reading of full novels as well as immersive audio-aligned narration which provides hundreds of hours of correct modeling throughout the entire process.

Tucson,United States - October 17, 2022 /PressCable/ —

This “novel” new web-app offers users an immersive-audio (wherein audio is aligned word-for-word with text) reading experience in which classic Arabic novels, like the famous adventure story, ‘1001 Nights’, have been transformed into interactive language learning tools. Novel Arabic understands that many new students find themselves frustrated by how difficult Arabic is to learn and they hope for a more natural and entertaining approach to the long process of absorbing a highly literary language.

The idea with NovelArabic is both to take a “novel” approach, using immersive aligned audio to saturate the ear and eye simultaneously — as well as to use classical storybooks (“novels”) — making each novel into a language lab. Instead of dry, boring artificial textbook passages, the student is actually reading classical novels, one after the next, getting the bulk practice necessary to really absorb a new language.

The truly arduous work of learning a complex language is somewhat lubricated through the use of fun adventure stories. Learning a language such as Arabic will always be a difficult process with a major commitment of time and energy, so the use of adventure novels as core content is definitely a welcome innovation.

More details can be found at https://novelarabic.com

Novel Arabic has launched their app at a moment when more non-native speakers than ever have recognized the value of learning Arabic. According to the CIA World Factbook, Arabic is now the third most-spoken first language, representing 5.1% of the global population, exactly the same as English.

As one of the UN’s official languages, the Arabic language is beneficial for people who want to work in international business or diplomacy, who want to travel throughout Africa and the Middle East, who live in an Arabic-speaking neighborhood in their hometown, or who simply want to broaden their intercultural understanding and linguistic flexibility.

Whether it’s for a lifelong goal or for a college test requirement, the application is confident they can expand a user’s Arabic literacy, vocabulary and fluency. The app presents learners with entire classic adventure novels, in which every word has been audio narrated and aligned with the text, and accompanied by an English translation.

Each chapter has a correlating word bank, taught through an in-built spaced-repetition flashcard functionality. Then, once students have been taken through the guided reading of the chapter, they will be prompted to return to it and to these words. Here, they will pass through a three-stage process which slowly removes the translated English text as their native understanding of the language grows. The idea is to keep the student in a high-comprehension state, while introducing a complex new paragraph.

Novel Arabic is an interesting experiment in providing a smooth learning on-ramp to a very highly difficult and literary language — teaching Arabic both the intricacies and joys of the language through an engaging process of adventure reading.

A spokesperson for the new app said, “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.”

More information is available at https://novelarabic.com

Contact Info:
Name: Chad Jones
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Organization: Novel Arabic
Address: 9400 E 30th St, Tucson, AZ 85710, United States
Website: https://novelarabic.com

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