Arabic is spoken by about 481 million people. All spoken varieties together, which are not mutually intelligible across the range. The often-quoted 335 million Modern Standard Arabic figure is not added here: those are mostly the same people, schooled in the standard register.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Zulu, Javanese and Hebrew. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Structurally, verbs usually come before their objects; it is written in the Arabic script, and the course teaches the writing system letter by letter with pronunciation shown while you learn.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Arabic sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,441 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 1,248 hours of study. Read how it works.
Most apps only teach Arabic through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded; the difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.