YouTube Channels

This YouTube channel teaches Arabic and the Palestinian dialect. Maha gives cultural context as well as on-screen prompts with transliteration to help memorization. Maha is engaging, talented and fun to watch!

Arabic Mike is in fact British, but has a great channel about traveling the Arab world, gives language lessons, sings songs and talks about cultural context to open up dialogs about understanding and accepting different cultures.

Talia is an American who speaks Arabic. Her channel has a whole playlist focusing on conversational Palestinian dialect. Each video focuses on a topic or a verb, so you can easily scan her channel to learn about something specific.

While there aren't too many lessons on this channel yet, it is a wonderful channel because it offers subtitles in both English and Arabic.

For beginners it often helps to see how the Arabic words we are hearing look written out in case you are taking notes.

If you are just looking to increase your vocabulary by one word or phrase at a time, check out this channel.

A short little video will display the word in Arabic with vowel marks. A native speaker will say the word repeatedly, giving you a chance to repeat and practice your pronunciation.