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You stand in the arrivals hall at Cairo or Marrakech, phone opened up to the translation app, seeing everybody around...

You open a language app on a Sunday night, type in “Arabic,” and stare at a swirl of letters that...

You have spent ten minutes looking at the same word. You know every letter in that word now, but if...

Open a children’s Arabic book or a copy of the Qur’an and you’ll see clusters of small marks sitting above...

You’ve learned the letters. You can identify them in isolation, maybe trace them in different positions, and you know which...

You’ve got the alphabet chart saved on your phone. Every letter sitting there alone, labeled with its tidy transliteration, and...

Most people who want to learn Arabic are genuinely committed. The problem is that most resources treat the alphabet like...