If you are going through the Madina Arabic course, whether with a teacher or through self-study, the biggest challenge is learning the vocab!
You can do it the old fashioned way and make your own flash-cards or you can try out the many free online tools designed to help you memorise words and facts bi'ithnillah!
The particular online tool I am introducing you to today, I have found to be a great learning aid Alhamdulillah in my Arabic studies and the best thing is it is absolutely free to use!
So what exactly is it?
Its a website called
Memrise.com and as the name suggests, its a memory aid tool which can be accessed online or by downloading the ipad app.
Its a very nicely designed site and works on a seed to flower concept ....each word starts as a "seed", as you learn the word you "plant it", as you revise you "water" and once learnt, its a "flower".
Now, let me explain how it can help you learn the Madina Arabic vocab inshaAllah....
First of all, you will have to go to the
Madina Arabic course on Memorise. {
click here }
You will see a series of levels with an image of a little flower in grey - once you complete a level the flower is coloured.
You will go into each level and see the vocab list for that lesson. Just click on "start planting" to start learning the vocab!
You will be shown the Arabic word and its meaning, for which you can choose an image or text that you can associate with that word to help you remember it inshaAllah.
The program will then keep showing you each word and asking you to either write or match the meaning with the Arabic. If you keep getting it incorrect, it will continue to bring up that particular word until you have got it!
Once you have locked the vocab into your memory inshaAllah, the program will at regular intervals of hours, days, weeks or months bring up "old vocab" to ensure you haven't forgotten it inshaAllah, and if you make a mistake, then it will automatically bring it back to revise to return it back to your memory bi'ithnillah!
So if you want to check it out for yourself, click the link { here }
Warning: I do not advise you to allow your children to use this without supervision as when selecting an image, the tool brings up all images found on the web (which if not carefully searched could potentially show inappropriate images - it works in the same way as searching for images via google images: you type the search word, and it will bring up related content)
