Online Arabic lessons
Arabic is not one language, and a tutor who grew up in Cairo will not teach you the Arabic spoken in Amman or Casablanca. Tell us where you are headed and we match you accordingly.
مرحبًا — Marḥaban
Choose a variety
Every variety below is taught by someone who speaks it. If you are not sure which applies to you, say where you are going and we will tell you.
Spoken in Formal use across 22 countries
Choose this if you want to read, study, or work with Arabic text.
Spoken in Egypt, Understood across the Arab world
Choose this for the widest reach and the largest supply of listening material.
Spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine
Choose this if your work, family or plans point at the eastern Mediterranean.
Spoken in United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman
Choose this if you live or work anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula.
Spoken in Morocco
Choose this only for Morocco — Darija does not travel east.
Why learn here
Most platforms list one subject called Arabic and leave you to discover, four lessons in, that your tutor speaks a variety nobody uses where you are moving. We ask before you book. If you need Levantine for Amman, you get a Levantine speaker.
Reading a newspaper and ordering coffee are two different skills in Arabic. Most learners need both. Your tutor plans a split that matches why you are learning — heavier on MSA for academic work, heavier on dialect if you are relocating.
Transliteration is a crutch that gets expensive later. Every beginner course starts with the alphabet and connected forms in week one, so by the end of the first month you are reading short words without a Latin approximation underneath.
Quranic Arabic and Tajweed are not a bonus feature bolted onto a conversation course. They have their own tutors, their own materials, and their own pace, because the goal is understanding and recitation rather than small talk.
Levels we teach
Arabic is spoken by over 400 million people. These are the CEFR levels we teach it at, and what each one actually lets you do.
The alphabet and first sentences
You learn the 28 letters in their initial, medial and final forms, read short words without transliteration, and handle greetings, numbers and simple introductions.
Everyday exchanges
Shopping, directions, food, family and time. You start hearing the difference between your chosen dialect and the Modern Standard you see written down.
Holding a conversation
You can describe events, explain what you want, and follow a slow conversation between two native speakers. Past and future tenses become reliable rather than lucky.
Argument and nuance
You follow the news, disagree with someone politely, and read edited prose with a dictionary open rather than a translator running.
Professional and academic use
You work in Arabic — meetings, correspondence, source texts — and switch register between Modern Standard and dialect without thinking about it.
Specialist courses
Adults who want to read and understand the Quran in the original — including reverts starting from the alphabet, and lifelong readers who recite fluently without knowing what the words mean.
Families raising children outside an Arabic-speaking country who want the language kept alive, and parents whose children are learning Arabic at school and falling behind.
What students say
No Arabic reviews are published here yet. We would rather show you nothing than write our own. Once students leave verifiable reviews on Trustpilot or Google, they appear on this page with a link back to the original.
Start from where you will use it. Egyptian has the widest reach across film and television and is understood almost everywhere. Levantine is the practical choice for Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Gulf matters if you are moving to the UAE, Saudi Arabia or Qatar. Darija is essentially its own language and only makes sense for Morocco. If you are learning to read rather than speak, Modern Standard is the answer.
If you want to read, study or work in Arabic, yes. Modern Standard is what newspapers, books, formal broadcasts and official documents use, and no dialect substitutes for it. If your goal is entirely spoken — family, travel, everyday life — you can go dialect-first and add Modern Standard later. Your tutor will suggest a split in the trial lesson.
You can, but it costs you more than it saves. Transliteration systems disagree with each other, no real Arabic text uses them, and learners who skip the alphabet usually plateau around A2 because everything after that assumes reading. The script takes most adults three to four weeks of steady work. We teach it from the first lesson.
For an English speaker with no related language, expect roughly 250 to 350 hours of study and practice to hold a comfortable everyday conversation, which is two to three lessons a week for about eighteen months alongside homework. Arabic is genuinely harder for English speakers than French or Spanish, and a tutor who tells you otherwise is selling something.
Yes, as a separate course with its own tutors. The focus is on reading the text accurately, the rules of recitation, and understanding classical vocabulary and grammar rather than conversational fluency. It suits adults who can already read the script, and beginners who want to start with the alphabet before moving into recitation.
Who teaches you
No tutor profile is published for Arabic yet. We will not put up a card with a stock photograph and a first name — if you are going to hand someone your Tuesday evenings, you should be able to see their name, their face and the body that issued their qualification.
Lessons are running. Message us on WhatsApp and we will tell you who is currently teaching Arabic, what they are qualified in, and when they are free. You will find an Arabic tutor listed here as soon as their paperwork is verified.
You meet the tutor, they work out where you actually are, and you both decide whether to carry on. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
