Language/Arabic

Professional Associations

• American Association of Teachers of Arabic
• National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs



Resources

• Arabic Pathways
• Arab Gateway
• Arabic Language resources
• Arabic Language Studies Program
• A short history of Arabic and a links section
• The Marhaba project: Arabic instruction for grades 4-8
• A small collection of video in Arabic
• Arabic software
• Arabic learning resources
• Children's books in Arabic
• A teachers' resource for Arabic and other languages



Independent study/Distance learning

• National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs
• Arabic writing tutorials
• Arabic listening tutorials
• online Arabic courses
• The Abjad Arabic Alphabet Learning System: A New Approach to Teaching Children the Arabic Alphabet.
• AMIR University (American Mercy Institute for Information & Research): on-line courses in Arabic.
• Arab Academy
• Arabic School Online
• BABEL: Arabic
• Islamic Virtual School
• schoolarabia.com



College courses

• Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) of Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
• University of Pennsylvania Arabic Program<|/LI>
  

  Dictionaries

• Arabic, English, French, Spanish
• Arabic, English, French
• Arabic/English
• Arabic/English/French
• Arabic to English only
• Clearinghouse of dictionary and encyclopedia links in Arabic and other Islamic languages
• On-screen keyboard solution
• On-screen keyboard solution



In Arabic

• Learning Arabic calligraphy.



Shopping for things in Arabic

• Al-Basheer Bookstore USA, 10968 East Bethany Drive, Aurora, CO 80014; 303:745-3330.
• Al-Basheer Publications & Translations, 10515 East 40th Avenue, Suite 108, Denver, CO 80239-3264; 303:574-0095, 303:373-0943 fax.
• Asr Media, PO Box 46069, Madison, WI 53744; 608:270-0571, 608:270-0573 fax, [email protected].
• Dar Us Salam USA, 572 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217; 718:625-5925.
• Fatima Publication Company, PO Box 55309, Riverside, CA 92517; 909:924-8479, e-mail.
• Fine Media Group, 800:214:1732.
• Iqra Book Center, 2751 Devon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60659; 800:521-4272, 773:274-2665, 773:274-8733 fax, iqra&aol.com;.
• www.islam.org/iis, [email protected].
• Spoken Language Services, Inc., PO Box 783, Ithaca, NY 14851; 607:256-0500, 607:256-0501 fax, [email protected].