what search term do I use to find something to learn Arab

[LadyAnn]

I'm trying everything to learn Arabic and that includes youtube.  Only the youtube clips are really bad or else I'm even dumber than I believed. So I'm looking for a language learning system.

[ill88eagle]

My mom learned Spanish with this app: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ar/en/Learn-Arabic - free of charge

[LadyAnn]

My mom learned Spanish with this app: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ar/en/Learn-Arabic - free of charge

Oh cool!  Thanks!

[peckerhead]

I also like duolingo. It is challenging, but not so challenging you want to give up

[RobertX]

I would say "Pimsleur" or "Rosetta Stone."

[LadyAnn]

I would say "Pimsleur" or "Rosetta Stone."

You are going to laugh at me but I thought pimsleur was an arabic word.

[RobertX]

No, I'm not going to laugh at you, I've been practising my Mandarin with this, though it hasn't gone very far.

EDIT: LadyAnn, have you tried just using your knowledge of Arabic and talk to some Arab residents in your area?

In life, experience is the best way to learn.

That's how I practise my Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, and French.

[LadyAnn]

No, I'm not going to laugh at you, I've been practising my Mandarin with this, though it hasn't gone very far.

EDIT: LadyAnn, have you tried just using your knowledge of Arabic and talk to some Arab residents in your area?

In life, experience is the best way to learn.

That's how I practise my Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, and French.

I'm surrounded by Latin Americans and Jamaican Americans.  

I looked it up and the nearest mosque is a 30 min drive and I'm scared that I might do something crazy like convert to Islam.  I accidentally do a lot of dumb things that I don't mean to. So I kind of avoid stuff until I'm sure that it's what I want.

[BigDadE]

there is a comprehensive arabic pack uploaded to the pirate bay that includes: audio, video and text files. here's the link:
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=7261664

torrent description:
This torrent features resources to help you learn both Modern Standard Arabic and the main colloquial dialects (Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, Gulf, Maghrebi).
All the files are organized in 11 main folders as follows:

01 Arabic Script + Quick Courses
02 Modern Standard Arabic Complete Courses, Textbooks, Manuals
03 Living Arabic A Comprehensive Introductory Course DVD
04 Grammar, Workbooks, Usage, Verbal System
05 Graded Readers, Children Books, Folk Tales
06 Dictionaries, Vocabulary, Phrasebooks
07 Egyptian Arabic
08 Levantine and Iraqi Arabic
09 Arabic of the Arabian Peninsula
10 Maghrebi Arabic
11 Society, Culture, Tourism

Folder 00 contains the book list in jpeg files.

the text files are mostly .pdf, the video files are .vob and the audio files are zipped but most likely .mp3

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[LadyAnn]

there is a comprehensive arabic pack uploaded to the pirate bay that includes: audio, video and text files.  here's the link:
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=7261664

torrent description:
This torrent features resources to help you learn both Modern Standard Arabic and the main colloquial dialects (Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, Gulf, Maghrebi).
All the files are organized in 11 main folders as follows:

01 Arabic Script + Quick Courses
02 Modern Standard Arabic Complete Courses, Textbooks, Manuals
03 Living Arabic A Comprehensive Introductory Course DVD
04 Grammar, Workbooks, Usage, Verbal System
05 Graded Readers, Children Books, Folk Tales
06 Dictionaries, Vocabulary, Phrasebooks
07 Egyptian Arabic
08 Levantine and Iraqi Arabic
09 Arabic of the Arabian Peninsula
10 Maghrebi Arabic
11 Society, Culture, Tourism

Folder 00 contains the book list in jpeg files.

the text files are mostly .pdf, the video files are .vob and the audio files are zipped but most likely .mp3

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Wow this is a big download !   Thank you for this so very much !