Beginner Arabic typing practice
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Words you've stumbled on
None yet — keep going. We'll surface words you miss more often.
None yet — keep going. We'll surface words you miss more often.
The first rung. If four-letter words already feel like a lot, the beginner drill stays on the home row until your hands settle. The sixteen topic lessons are on the Arabic typing practice hub, and all three levels sit on one page.
Everything here is one word and no longer than four letters, which is about as much as anyone can hold in their head while still hunting for keys. Start here even if your Arabic is decent — the bottleneck early on is your hands, not your vocabulary.
Eight words come up one at a time, Arabic on top and the Arabizi under it. Type the Arabic. Right letters turn green and a wrong one just sits there until you fix it, so you can't get lost.
The next key lights up on the on-screen keyboard. Look at it as much as you want in the first few sessions. By the third or fourth you'll find you aren't.
Every reload draws a new set from the whole beginner pool, spread across the sixteen themes. Two minutes a session, and three sessions a day is plenty.
Counted across every word in the level. Learn where these eight sit and you can already type يَلّا (alright), اِبْن (son), لٰكِنّ (but), كُم (sleeves) and يَنام (he goes to sleep).
The home row drill keeps to words that never leave the middle row, and the keyboard page has the whole layout.
Yes. Every word here is a single word of four letters or fewer, which is short enough to hold in your head while you hunt for keys. If even that feels like a lot, do the beginner drill first: it uses home-row words only, so your fingers never have to reach.
No. The on-screen keyboard shows you which key to press on a normal QWERTY keyboard, using the standard Arabic 101 layout. If you want to type Arabic outside this site, the setup guides turn the layout on in about two minutes on any system.
No. Fatha, kasra, damma and the rest are shown so you can read the word properly, but they fold into the letter they sit on. You type the letters and the word counts as correct.
Until a session stops feeling like a puzzle. For most people that's a week or two of short daily sessions. Then move to intermediate, where the words run five to seven letters and you start typing in chunks instead of letter by letter.
Yes, all of it, with no account. The same practice is in the ArabicTyper app for iPhone and Android if you'd rather do it on your phone.
Difficulty here is about typing, not about how advanced the Arabic is. A four-letter word is easier to type than a nine-letter one even when you know both, so the levels follow length: short single words, then longer ones, then phrases with spaces in them.
Short enough that you can hold the whole word in your head while you hunt for the keys.
Long enough that you stop reading letter by letter and start typing in chunks.
Real phrases with spaces in them, which is where rhythm starts to matter.
You can dip into any set you like, but this is the run we would put someone through. The alphabet comes first because there is nothing to translate and your whole attention can sit on the keys. Travel comes last because its entries are the longest on the site.
Eight words takes a couple of minutes. Two of those a day will move you faster than one long sitting on a Sunday, because what you are building is a motor habit and habits want repetition more than they want volume.
Wrong keys learned quickly are still wrong keys. Go slow enough that you rarely miss, and the speed arrives on its own. Words you fumble get flagged during the session so you can see the pattern in what trips you.
Want a number instead of a feeling? The Arabic typing test gives you words per minute and accuracy over a fixed minute. And if you have no Arabic layout installed at all, the online Arabic keyboard will type into any text box in the meantime.