AMMAN – Arabic language instruction has traditionally focused on Modern Standard Arabic, but there is growing demand for proficiency in the Arabic dialects among students and employers, including the ...

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University Ph.D. student will travel to Jordan next year to lay the groundwork for educational tools that could help people all over the world learn an Arabic dialect spoken ...

Arabic dialects vary widely across the Arab world, with each region having its unique linguistic characteristics. From the widely understood Egyptian Arabic to the distinct Maghrebi dialects, this ...

With at least 350 million speakers, Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world after English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and French. However, the kind of Arabic you hear on the streets of the ...

A new academic study shows that Moroccan Arabic, Darija, is increasingly valued by foreign learners, challenging long-standing biases that favored Egyptian and Levantine dialects. Once immersed in ...

On 18 December the UN will mark World Arabic Language Day to honour the role the language has played in the development of human civilisation. Spoken by around 400 million people across the globe, the ...