Frequently asked questions

Open the Trainer (/watch) and paste a YouTube link in the dialect you want — you'll get a synced, clickable transcript: tap a word to see its translation, root and hear it pronounced. If you can't read Arabic script yet, start with the free Alphabet section.

Short and regular. Break down one or two videos in Video breakdown, run a round of the trainer, check the Word of the day — 15–20 minutes a day beats three hours once a week. A full path through the platform is in the Guide (/guide).

Talkarabicnow Live is a spoken-Arabic trainer built on real YouTube videos, plus a dialect translator with audio and AI lessons tailored to your level and dialect. It's not a Modern Standard Arabic textbook — it's a tool for real spoken language.

Open Video breakdown and paste a link to any YouTube video with Arabic speech — the platform detects the dialect and shows a synced transcript. Tap a word for its translation, vowelling, root and a native-speaker reading. If the video has no subtitles, speech is transcribed automatically (songs come out worse — singing is hard to recognise).

Take the free placement test — in a few minutes it works out where you are (A1–B2) and suggests which course and materials to start with. Reach it from the courses page or directly at /train/placement.

Textbooks give you "dead" book language in made-up examples. We take real spoken content from YouTube (vloggers, shows, interviews) and turn it into a trainer with a breakdown of every word and audio in the right dialect — you learn what you'll actually hear from native speakers.

Yes — the Books section: 600+ books, from world classics (Dumas, Verne, One Thousand and One Nights) to modern Arab masters (Mahfouz, El Saadawi, Kanafani, Tayeb Salih and dozens more). Tap any word for translation, vocalization, root and a native voice; save words and practice them. Audiobooks will sit next to the classics.

Yes, there's a free plan: videos in the Trainer within a daily quota, the full Alphabet section, and part of the daily dictionary with no limits. Unlimited access to all videos, books, the translator and AI lessons requires a paid subscription — see Pricing.

A subscription unlocks the platform's tools — the dialect translator, video breakdown, books, trainers and AI lessons: you study on your own, at your own pace. Courses are the school's programs with a teacher, homework and a certificate. They don't get in each other's way — you can use the platform and take a course at the same time.

Current prices and plan contents are on the Pricing page (in the top site menu); the price and currency depend on your region.

On the .ru domain, payment goes through Prodamus (Russian cards, SBP). On the international domain, payment goes through Stripe (foreign cards). Russian cards cannot be used on the international domain — use the Russian version of the service instead.

Yes — on the school's courses. A module counts once you pass its homework or test (75% threshold), and on finishing the course you get a personalised certificate. The platform tools (translator, trainers) have no certificate — they're for practice, not a program.

Yes. Email baxgat@yandex.ru or open a ticket in Support — we'll refund the unused period (less the cost of services already rendered) within 10 business days, to the original payment method. See the Terms of Service for details.

Turn off auto-renewal in your account, or write to Support — access continues until the end of the period you already paid for, and you won't be charged again.

19 dialects: Egyptian, Levantine (Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Jordanian), Gulf (Qatari, Emirati, Kuwaiti, Saudi, Bahraini, Omani), Iraqi, Yemeni, Sudanese, Maghreb (Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian) — plus Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The /translate page shows a word across every dialect at once, with audio.

People speak their country's dialect on the street and on social media, not Modern Standard Arabic — yet textbooks almost always teach only the standard. We voice and break down the actual dialect: Qatari separately from Emirati and Kuwaiti, Egyptian separately from Levantine.

Words and phrases are read by a neural voice chosen for the specific dialect and country, from fully-voweled text (without vowel marks the robot misreads Arabic). For high-frequency Gulf words, we're gradually adding recordings from real native speakers — they simply replace the TTS file with no change to the interface.

Mostly a neural voice (the same voices used in the free Read Aloud feature) — they passed a native-speaker intelligibility test. For about 500 high-frequency Gulf-dialect words, we're gradually recording real teachers.

If the audio didn't generate, try refreshing the page — that's usually a temporary TTS hiccup. If a word is consistently mispronounced, let us know via Support so we can fix the vowel marks in our data.

The transcript comes from YouTube's own subtitles — if a video has none, we can't build a breakdown for it; try another video. If subtitles exist but you still get an error, send us the video link via Support.

Yes — the site is fully responsive for phones and tablets; no separate app is needed, everything runs in the browser.

Right now your dictionary is saved locally in your browser (localStorage) — it won't carry over if you switch devices or clear your cache. A full account with cloud sync is coming later.

Open a ticket in Support (/support) with a description and a screenshot if you can — the team will reply and see it through. You can also ask our AI assistant Oksana simple questions there right away.