The aim of this course is to take a complete novice in Arabic to the stage where they can read the Quraan and, with a good dictionary, common sense and freedom from preconceptions, understand what is written.

It is not intended to help anyone learn to speak Arabic for travel, business or social situations.

References to the quraan are given as chapter:verse - e.g. chapter 2 verse 3 is 2:3

A guide to pronunciation is given by providing sound samples. Sounds are currently stored as .wma files as these seem to be the smallest option (faster download!)

The website provides different versions. To swap to a different version, just return to this introduction page and choose again. Experience and testing in the early days (Mar 2004) may result in changes!

Go!	JavaScript - this downloads the visual part of the lesson very quickly. The first time you point at a piece of text, it takes a couple of seconds to download and play the sound. Pointing again plays the sound again. If you want to copy the whole course onto your harddisk, you could use an offline browser from www.httrack.com - but it will take a while to download!
Go!	No JavaScript - also downloads the visual part very quickly, but you need to click on the sounds to play them. Will work directly with 'make available offline' when you save two directories deep.
Sound Test	Other sound file types - if people tell me they can't play WMA files, I'll start adding the minor twists to play other types. Larger files means longer downloads. I have already recorded the sounds as MPG (slightly larger than WMA) and WAV (10 times larger than WMA). All browsers should be capable of WAV and MID/MIDI files

OK - I could add a fancy comments form here - but that is called 'low priority' at the moment. If you want to pass comments or ask questions, or be notified as individual lessons are completed, please mail me!!!

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