اِسْمَعْLearn Arabic from real videos

Short clips from cartoons, lessons and shows. Tap any word to see what it means right there, and keep the ones you want. They come back for review right before you’d forget them.

Start with a free week Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Fanak, Isma’s fennec fox, holding a small cup of coffee

Listen first. The words follow.

Isma means “listen!”. You learn Arabic the way you learnt your first language: by hearing lots of it, understanding a little more each day.

1

Watch real Arabic

A feed of sentence-sized clips from real videos, so every swipe is something new to hear.

2

Tap any word

See what it means in that sentence, its dictionary form and root, and save it with one tap.

3

Remember it

Saved words come back in the sentence and voice you first heard them in, timed so they stick.

الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ بِخَيْرٍ، وَكَيْفَ حَالُكَ أَنْتَ؟

Fine, thank God. And how are you?  ·  The word being said lights up. Words you know turn teal, words you’re learning orange.

The Arabic people actually speak

Pick the Arabic you want to understand first, or mix them.

شَامِي

Levantine

Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine

مَصْرِي

Egyptian

Egypt, and most films and TV

فُصْحَى

Fuṣḥā

News, books and formal speech

Simple pricing

Every clip, every word and every review, on both plans.

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Yearly

£36.99 a year

7 days free · £3.08 a month · save 56%

Monthly

£6.99 a month

Prices in GBP; the app shows yours in your own currency. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store or Google Play settings. Cancel during the free week and you won’t be charged.