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It doesn't make any sound when I click the speaker icon. What's wrong with this?
Hi, I'm the developer of AbjadPro. Can you tell me what browser and OS you're using? Feel free to email me at help@abjadpro.com with any other issues. Thank you!
Arabic language learning resources are few and far between. Thank you for building this. Do you know which Arabic this teaches? Koranic? Modern Standard? Levantine? Gulf?
It teaches all types of Arabic. The stories are written in Modern Standard Arabic, and videos are categorized by dialect.
Are the vocalisations of the letters synthetic?

Edit: If I wasn't acquainted with arabic script I'd probably not be able to make out the difference in vocalisation between some letters.

I used Artlist/ElevenLabs for the audio. I'm hoping to replace the audio with recordings by native speakers later this year.
Saw a couple of words that (as far as I know) aren't "modern standard Arabic" is there any bias towards a dialect or another?
The stories are written in Standard Arabic and the videos are categorized by dialect. If you see any errors, please click on the "Report an error" button to send an email, or email me directly at help@abjadpro.com. Thanks!
For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org. It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world.

It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language and can't recommend it highly enough.

Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.
You got me started on learning Spanish there. So far so good.
Nice work.

As others mentioned, I couldn't hear the sound.

There is a dire need for a good quality arabic learning app.

Hi, can you tell me on which page you can't hear the sound, and which browser and OS you're using? I'll look into it. Feel free to email me about errors at help@abjadpro.com. Thanks!
This should just be a normal post, if you didn't make it, it can't be a Show HN

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Thoughts about a one time payment only? Shouldn't we move away from yet another subscription?
Good idea. I'll definitely consider adding a one-time payment option once the website is more robust.
Need more users to offset server cost