Bristol English Arabic 1 [iPhone]

Bristol English Arabic 1 is designed for people who speak Arabic and want to learn English.

The app helps you to learn English from the beginning.

You will hear the sound of easy English words and the sound of the Arabic translation.

You will learn to read the English words and match these words to the corresponding Arabic words. You will also learn how to spell the English words.

The app is free and there are no ads.

You can use the app offline; you do not need an internet connection after the app is installed.

The app is small and does not use a lot of memory space on your phone.

Using the app is fun, you learn by playing games and the points you win are displayed.

There are two types of games.

First matching games;

You match English letters to the closest Arabic letter.

Next, you match short English words to the Arabic words.

The vocabulary has been chosen so that all the letters of the alphabet are gradually introduced.

This game helps you with listening, understanding and reading English.

Secondly there are spelling games;

In the spelling games, you will have a choice of six letters to spell the English word.

You will hear the names of each English letter so that you learn the names of all the letters in the alphabet.

To listen to the word you need to spell, you can click on the microphone and hear the word spoken.

This game helps you with listening, understanding and spelling English.

People who speak Arabic often find the sounds of English short vowels (a, e, i, o, u) difficult to hear. To make spelling easier, the spelling games provide the relevant vowels in the early games.

There are sixty games to play.

You can play a game as many times as you need to make sure that you can read, understand each word and know how to spell the new words. It is good to say each English word out loud, to practice speaking English.

Regular practice is best; ten minutes in the morning, ten minutes in the afternoon is the perfect way to learn from the app.

You can also use the menu to go back to earlier games to revise.

Additional information about the design of the app;

The app helps you to learn UK English (not USA English).

To use this app there is no need to sign in, or set up an account. No data is collected.

This app is very useful for self-study of the English language and also good for students in education.

The words chosen are designed to make learning English as easy as possible.

The first words are three letter phonetic words; CVCs (Consonant Vowel Consonant).

Next, four and five letter phonetic words are introduced, to help learners become familiar with the regular sounds of the English alphabet.

Lastly, the words are commonly used nouns in the English language.

This app systematically revises the words learnt in earlier games and the revision words are randomly chosen from the earlier games so that each time the game is played the revision words will be different.

The app can be used by people who speak Arabic but do not read it well. As the Arabic letters and words are always spoken out loud so that the user can listen to the Arabic as well as the English.

The early focus on spelling helps learners distinguish each individual letters in a word, so that they can distinguish similarly spelled words and be able read phonetic names.

The app will also be useful for those who are good readers of English but are unable to spell accurately.

To finish, this free app is a very useful asset for people who speak Arabic who want to start learning the English language.