Arabic Language Institute (ALI) launch free online Arabic language learning program
Last October, approximately a year after Dr. Hassan Alshamrani began work on an online Arabic language project, King Saud University adopted a comprehensive self-learning Arabic website, available to the entire international community online at arabiconline.ksu.edu.sa
In his description of the Interactive Arabic Project, Dr. Alshamrani, Vice-Dean of the Arabic Language Institute’s Quality and Development chair, explains that the program was devised as a service to assist non-Arabic speaking individuals to learn the language via the internet.
This Arabic website, which can be accessed by anyone in the world, is offered at no charge. Because the project is a self-learning process, participants must have a prior knowledge of the pronunciation and the written form of the Arabic alphabets.
The immediate response obviously pleased Dr. Alshamrani and KSU officials, with more than 500 individuals registering the day the project was announced, but Dr. Alshamrani expressed that he wasn’t surprised by the early rush considering the value of such a resource. Within a month the number reached 4500 users, and the numbers continue to increase rapidly.
In his description of the Interactive Arabic Project, Dr. Alshamrani, Vice-Dean of the Arabic Language Institute’s Quality and Development chair, explains that the program was devised as a service to assist non-Arabic speaking individuals to learn the language via the internet.
This Arabic website, which can be accessed by anyone in the world, is offered at no charge. Because the project is a self-learning process, participants must have a prior knowledge of the pronunciation and the written form of the Arabic alphabets.
The immediate response obviously pleased Dr. Alshamrani and KSU officials, with more than 500 individuals registering the day the project was announced, but Dr. Alshamrani expressed that he wasn’t surprised by the early rush considering the value of such a resource. Within a month the number reached 4500 users, and the numbers continue to increase rapidly.
