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Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for learning Arabic dialects

https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about

Arabic learning materials often slow you down by requiring constant page-flipping to look up translations and transliterations. I’m building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts. You can click or highlight any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration, and grammar notes in context, as well as compare across multiple different dialects.The core...

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Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for studying Arabic dialects

https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about

Arabic learning materials often slow you down by requiring constant page-flipping to look up translations and transliterations.I’m building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts. You can click or highlight any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration, and grammar notes in context, as well as compare across multiple different dialects.The core...

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Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for studying Arabic

https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about

One thing that always frustrated me as an Arabic learning was how difficult textbooks are to use. You’re constantly flipping to the end to check translations or transliterations, which completely kills your focus.So I started building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts, you can click or drag over any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration,...

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Re:Show HN: Lexical - How I learned 3 languages in 3 years on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:58PM (#45895938)
Great work!

Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for studying Arabic

https://www.parallel-arabic.com/about

One thing that always frustrated me as an Arabic learning was how difficult textbooks are to use. You’re constantly flipping to the end to check translations or transliterations, which completely kills your focus.So I started building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts, you can click or drag over any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration,...

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Re:Show HN: Writing Arabic in English on Saturday September 06, 2025 @10:41AM (#45149692)
I thought about that, but I wanted to support numbers still

Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice

https://parallel-arabic.com/

Parallel Arabic is a modern, all-in-one platform for learning Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic. You can choose from six major varieties. Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan, Khaleeji, Iraqi, and Modern Standard Arabic, each supported with native-like, automatically generated audio.The app offers engaging tools like AI generated short stories, speaking practice, sentence building,...

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Re:Writing Arabic in English on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:18AM (#43916866)
Blog about creating a phonetic arabic keyboard
Re:Why resume writing is snake oil on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @02:49PM (#43560075)
very depressing read...
Wow amazing project! Happy to see Egyptian Arabic as one of the supported languages.
Re: on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:46AM (#42575401)
I wonder what % would be immigrants + children of immigrants
Re:Why Are Americans So Rich? on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:15AM (#41936347)
cool
Re:Writing Arabic in English on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @10:06AM (#41788147)
Journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard
gotcha, is there a way to delete a post? I cant seem to find it.

Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Egyptian Arabic reading and writing practice

https://parallel-arabic.com/#

I have made a website called Parallel Arabic which enables users to read Egyptian Arabic texts alongside the same text in English.Each story features a dictionary of key words, transliteration of the text, and full native audio recordings, creating a fully self-contained learning environment without the need for outside resources. https://parallel-arabic.com/storiesThere is also a section for...

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Using a mic
That would be a great feature, definitely going to look into how to implement something like that.

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