Arabic Student

This is a good app and is great for beginners. Once you know what to look for, the app is very intuitve. Its setup with Apples common-sense mentality.

I was able to have the owner step me through the concepts and usage behind the applications creation. Here are some of the takeaways the next iteration of apps should consider:
- There are 6 apps associated with Thinking in Arabic and can be purchased as a package.
- The grouped apps should be contained in a single application with each module selectable within the overall app.
- For a beginner, without Mostafa to help guide you along, there should be a tour or assistant to key the user into the apps features and proper usage.
- There is a short book on Read and Write in Arabic in 59 Minutes. This should be included as a preface app. Where the Arabic letters are displayed in a table there should be tabs to select on/off features. i.e. turn on beginning, middle, end displays for the letters; hide the pronunciation of each letter so the user can try speaking without seeing the hint, but could touch the letter and hear it outloud if needed; add a switch to turn on the proper The label to nouns beginning with the specified letter such as Bab....becomes Al Bab with the switch on. This app feature needs to be added for someone who has not learned the alphabet yet and the meaning of diacritic markings
- As the narrator says a word, the corresponding letter in the word could change color so the reader could quickly associate the pronunciation to its corresponding letter.
- Allow the screen to tilt so you can use it in landscape or portrait views.
- In the letter - vocabulary builder section the speaker picture and ABC block fade out when not selected. For a first time user it leads you to believe that function is not selectable and could be overlooked. Each function is crititcal to helping the user first learning the many ways the letter could be pronounced then showing the user how those letter sounds make words by associating a photo with the Arabic word.

With a tour feature this app could become a stand-alone teaching tool. Without it, the app is still good in easily teaching the user the basics in Arabic, but it leaves out the Why.

Recently the In-App purchase link keeps popping up as I Progress in the Alphabet App. Sometimes it allows a restore and sometimes it doesnt.

Rich-Dubai about Arabic Alphabet - Letters and Sounds