Some of you saw this when I posted it here a few months ago, and the response was really kind. The app has grown a lot since then, so here is a proper update.
What it is
Talking Cards is a picture-card app. Tap a picture and you see the word with full tashkeel and hear it spoken. I built it for children who are learning to talk, but the same things that help a child (a clear picture, the written word, the sound, again and again) help a beginner too. A few learners used it as a picture dictionary after my last post, which is why I am sharing it here again.
The Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى). Every word is fully vowelled, so you always know how it is read
1,742 words in 69 everyday categories: food, family, feelings, home, places, animals, clothes, school, and now space
Every word has its own picture and its own audio clip
73 illustrated storybooks written in Arabic, read aloud. Tap any word in a story to hear it on its own
A full right-to-left interface when the app is in Arabic
It builds real Arabic sentences
There is a sentence board: tap cards one after another and the app turns them into a correct sentence, then says it. It does not just read the words in a row. It conjugates the verb, adds the pronoun, and handles tense and negation. For example, tapping not + eat + tomorrow gives:
لَنْ آكُلَ غَدًا (I will not eat tomorrow)
For a learner, it is a quick way to see how a verb changes, without opening a grammar table.
Six languages, one tap
The app speaks English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Turkish, and Nepali. Each language has its own grammar rules, so the sentences come out right in each one, not word-for-word translations.
When you switch languages, every picture stays exactly where it was. So you can open a category in Arabic, switch to English (or Spanish, French, Turkish, or Nepali) to check a word, and switch back without losing your place. There is also a bilingual mode for learning two languages side by side.
The storybooks are written in all six languages too. You can read the same story in English first and then in Arabic.
Letters and spelling
Type to Talk is a big Arabic keyboard that reads every letter and word aloud, with picture hints. There are also small games for practice: spell a word (the keys light up in order), find a letter, and copy a line.
The details
194 words are free forever
A free week to try everything, then a one-time unlock. No subscription
No ads, no account, no tracking. It works offline
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