Author name: redlam

Thirty beautiful Arabic words with correct script, harakat, transliteration and honest meanings — including the ones that are constantly mistranslated online.

Arabic harakat explained: every diacritic, what it does, when it is written and when it is left out — and why real Arabic text drops them entirely.

Arabic vs Urdu: Urdu adds about eleven letters and writes in a different style. What each extra letter is for, and why Urdu is harder to read.

Arabic vs Persian: same alphabet, thousands of shared words, and no relation at all. The four extra letters, the grammar gap, and how to tell them apart.

Common Arabic phrases grouped by situation, each with Arabic script, transliteration and the reply you will hear back. Fewer phrases, all of them useful.

Arabic greetings with the reply you are expected to give back. Most lists teach you to say hello and leave you stranded two seconds later — this one covers both halves.

Is Arabic hard to learn? Yes – about three times the hours of Spanish. But the difficulty sits in four specific places, and two feared parts are easy.

Arabic alphabet pronunciation for all 28 letters, including the seven sounds English lacks. Where each is made in the mouth, and the look-alikes to watch.

How to learn Arabic without wasting the first six months: which Arabic to pick, what the alphabet really costs you, and a week-by-week plan you can start today.