Trainers and word review

1. In the header open "Sections" → "Trainers". The first four tiles are games — "Game: find the letter", "Game: letter tetris", "Game: letter crush" and "Game: arabize a word" — followed by alphabet, words, topics, lessons, grammar, verbs, tests and the level check.
2. If you cannot read Arabic script yet, start with the alphabet. It is open to everyone, free and unlimited.
3. If you have already analysed videos and saved words, go to "Words" — that is your own dictionary.
4. Need vocabulary for a trip or a situation? Take "Topics": airport, pharmacy, doctor, taxi, market and more.

At the top you get your streak (days in a row) and a map of all 28 letters: mastered, in progress, untouched. Pick a streak goal — 3, 7, 14 or 30 days. The streak is forgiving: one missed day does not wipe it out.

Four game modes:

• Alphabet lesson — a short run on three hearts. A wrong answer costs a heart, but you can refill and carry on.
• Write the letters — trace the outline with a finger or a mouse. Your hand remembers the shape faster than your eye.
• Build the letter — an Arabic letter has four positional forms; put them in the right slots.
• Find the pairs — match a letter with its name.

Below are the classic questions: "All mixed", "Letter → name", "Name → letter" and "Look-alikes" (the ones that differ only by dots and trip everyone up). A round is 30 questions, and every answer comes with an example word you can hear.

A match-three game: three in a row, like the candy ones, except the pieces are Arabic letters. The tile sits in "Trainers" and needs no account.

How to play. Swap neighbouring letters — tap one, then a neighbour, or just swipe. Three or more alike vanish and new letters rain from the top. On your first visit the "How to play" card opens by itself; after that a button brings it back.

Every level has its own goal:

• collect a set number of one letter;
• score a set number of points;
• an "Order" — gather the letters of an Arabic dish: shaay, tamr, qahwa, fuul, kunafa, basbousa, mulukhiya and more. Complete it and the word assembles with its transcription and meaning. Orders come on every third level.

Special letters grow out of longer matches. Four in a row make a shadda — the doubling sign — and it clears a whole row or column across your match. Two lines crossing make a taa marbuta, the "wrapped" taa: a 3×3 blast. Five in a row make a lam-alif, the one that says "no": swap it with any letter and that letter disappears from the whole board. The mnemonics are on purpose — you also learn what these signs do in writing.

Two boosters: halva is a colour bomb, earned for three stars on a level; kunafa is a 3×3 blast, earned for a completed order. Arm one and tap the cell you want.

Lives. You get five. Failing a level costs one, and one refills every half hour — the counter shows how long is left.

The campaign is 30 hand-checked levels across three locations: Cairo, the Oasis and the Night Bazaar. After that levels never run out: a generator builds them from the number, so level one hundred is the same everywhere. Each level pays up to three stars, shown on the map. Sound has an on/off button.

A game built on the school's signature "write as you hear" trick: take a familiar word — mama, taxi, Dubai — and assemble it from Arabic letters, sound by sound, right to left. The traps are the letters everyone mixes up: s and the "pharaoh" saad, plain and deep t, the three kinds of "h".

A game is five words, easy to tricky, with no timer. A wrong letter dims and resets your score streak, but the word always gets finished. After each word there is a small rule from the teacher's notebook ("no [p] in Arabic — use ب", "a doubled letter is written once"), and many words come with an audio button: the robot reads your writing out loud — Arabic script suddenly speaking a word you know.

This is your personal dictionary, built by tapping.

1. While analysing a video or translating, press "+ Save to dictionary" on the breakdown card.
2. Collect at least 4 words — fewer will not fill the answer options. Until then the trainer shows a placeholder and sends you off to collect some.
3. Open "Trainers" → "Words" and pick a mode.

Modes: "All mixed" (the best one), "Word → meaning", "Meaning → word" and "By ear", where the word is only spoken and you choose the spelling. There is no "Picture → word" here: pictures only come with topic decks.

The top bar shows how many words you have and a "Take the test" button for the same words. The mastered share appears next to it once you come back from a round.

Here the deck is built for you — your topic, your dialect, your level.

1. Choose a topic (or a grammar section), a dialect and a level from A1 to B2.
2. Press "Start". Building takes about 30 seconds; meanwhile we show facts about Arab countries.
3. Play a round of 30 questions. "Another round" gives you new questions from the same deck — no waiting for a rebuild.
4. Like a word? Press "+ Save to dictionary" in the breakdown and it joins your dictionary, ready to come back in "My words".

Topic decks contain whole phrases as well as single words — those are labelled "phrase". Cards sometimes come with a picture, and then a "Picture → word" mode appears in the list; with no pictures in the deck the mode is simply hidden.

Grammar changes what is inside a card: instead of a word you get a mini-pair — a prompt in your language ("I write", "this is not my house") and the correct form in your dialect. The question types stay the same: sometimes you pick the form for the prompt, sometimes the meaning for an Arabic form, sometimes you answer by ear.

Verbs is a separate tile: type a verb, pick a dialect and get a conjugation table with audio for every form. From there you can also study verbs in batches of 10, 25 or 50, with a test at the end.

Every word and every letter sits in a box.

• Answer correctly and it moves up a box, so the next showing is pushed back — five minutes, half an hour, this evening, a day, three days, a week.
• Answer wrong and it drops to the first box: "mastered" has to be earned again, and the item is back in one of your next rounds.
• Every round is reshuffled from scratch, so no two are the same. And when a deck holds fewer items than a round has questions, the top-up favours new and overdue ones — they come up more often.

"Mastered" is the share of items that reached the third box. Do not worry if it climbs slowly — it counts what you still remember a week later, not what you have seen once.

One thing to know: saved words belong to your account, but review progress and test records live in your browser for now. On another device, or after clearing browser data, the count starts over. Each deck has its own progress — "Taxi, Egyptian, A1" and "Taxi, Syrian, A1" are counted separately. Game levels, stars, lives and boosters live in the browser too.

"Tests" check you without hints: same questions, but short feedback only — right or wrong plus the audio, no full breakdown. Take a ready-made set ("Classic test (MSA)" or "Egyptian test") or build a test from your own topic and dialect. At least 20 questions, 30 in the ready-made sets. At the end you get the score, the accuracy and your record; "Beat your record" reshuffles everything. A weaker run never overwrites your best.

"Level check" is a longer test that gives you a level from A1 to B2 and suggests a course that fits. It is free but requires signing in — the result has to be saved somewhere. At the end you can press "Set in profile" and keep the level there.

• Ten minutes daily beats one hour a week: the review intervals are built around coming back every day.
• Do not chase 100% in a round. Mistakes are useful — they are what brings a word back into rotation.
• Listen to the audio and repeat out loud, not in your head. That is half the value of the trainer.
• Save 3–5 words a day from videos, and within a week "My words" becomes your main trainer.

"Nothing to train yet". You have fewer than four words saved. Analyse a video or translate a couple of words and save them.

The deck takes long or fails. About 30 seconds is normal — it is written for your dialect and level. If you see "Couldn't build the deck", press again; the second attempt usually works.

My progress is gone. Check that you are in the same browser and did not clear site data. A private window keeps progress only until you close it.

No "Picture → word" mode. It exists only in topic decks, and only when pictures were found for their words. In "My words" it never appears.

What it costs. The alphabet and "My words" are unlimited. Building a new deck (topics, grammar, tests) counts against your plan: one a week on the free one. Extra rounds on a deck you already built ("Another round") and reviewing old words cost nothing. The games — "Find the letter", "Letter tetris" and "Letter crush" — are free as well: no account needed, and they never count against your plan.