Arabic Immersive-Reading Language Learning | Read-Along Story App Launched

Tucson,United States - June 17, 2022 /PressCable/ —

There are around 313 million Arabic speakers around the world. As the fifth-most spoken language in the world, Arabic is growing in popularity. Those who are looking for an innovative way to learn the language can do so with this unusual language-learning app.

More details can be found at https://novelarabic.com

NovelArabic.com introduces itself as a completely new approach to literary Arabic learning for English speakers. Unlike other apps, it uses bulk immersive reading for learning. This means that users read along with word-for-word aligned human narration. While reading, the ear is constantly hearing correct modeling, providing the hundreds of hours of necessary listening to absorb the vocabulary and grammatical patterns. Using both ear and eye together increases comprehension which is the key to rapid vocabulary and grammar absorption.

Moreover, NovelArabic.com attempts to further flatten the learning curve by integrating aids such as spaced-repetition flashcards and embedded inline translation hints. These translation hints are gradually dropped off, moving the student to full-speed, high-comprehension decoding as rapidly as possible.

This process is repeated for entire books, turning adventure novels into entire language labs. This is a completely innovative way to learn a language, getting to bulk high-comprehension decoding quickly and naturally.

While most language learning approaches start by teaching the alphabet and then gradually introducing grammar rule-by-rule, this makes the learning process very slow. Those wanting to learn literary Arabic, need to study for years before reading real literature. Students of Arabic are often buried in grammar for so many years that they eventual give up without ever gaining basic literacy.

NovelArabic.com attempts to address this by adding layers of audio and translation to fun adventure novels. Instead of endless discussion of grammar and practice vocabulary, students jump right into real books using high-comprehension as the actual strategy. It turns out that humans naturally absorb language, both vocabulary and grammar, when they experience high-quantity, high-comprehension decoding.

For beginners, NovelArabic.com provides a basic primer with 30 daily lessons covering minimal core-1000 vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. This provides approximately two years of classroom Arabic — and the necessary foundation for jumping into the intermediate reading.

Intermediate-level readers will enjoy a collection of 40 children’s fables in the classical book “Kalila and Dimna”. These stories are full of simple verbs, recurring animal names and a range of basic grammatical constructs which will become secondary through repeated use. This is the necessary foundation for advanced-intermediate reading.

Advanced-intermediate reading includes a long sequence of a dozen adventure novels, starting with the classical Arabic text “1001 Nights”, this is followed by a sequence of storybook novels such as “Treasure Island”, Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, “Moby Dick”, and “The Last of the Mohicans”. Absorbing a complex language is hard, and the use of adventure novels seeks to make this long process more enjoyable.

Finally, the advanced student is introduced to classical Islamic literature. Primarily, the book “Nahj al-Balagah”, which is a collection of letters and talks of Imam ‘Ali. This is a book deeply beloved by Muslims of both Sunni and Shi‘ah extraction, and renowned as one of the highest examples of eloquent Arabic.

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Initial pilot tests have shown that this form of study helps students learn literary Arabic an order of magnitude faster than traditional approaches. Traditional classroom study tends to focus on abstract grammar discussion and reading small selections from the pages of a printed textbook.

The human mind has the ability to absorb vocabulary and phraseology quickly and musically, so long as the ear is engaged and a high-comprehension environment is maintained. That is the unique approach approach attempted by NovelArabic.

Interested parties can find more information by visiting https://novelarabic.com

Contact Info:
Name: Chad Jones
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Organization: Novel Arabic
Address: 9400 E 30th St, Tucson, AZ 85710, United States
Website: https://novelarabic.com

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