Live on Zoom · Saturdays · 20, 40 or 60 weeks · assessed and certificated

Read, listen and speak Qur'anic Arabic, one level at a time.

Two hours live with Zuhayr every Saturday morning. You speak from the very first lesson, with words you'll meet again and again in the Qur'an, and a few minutes a day on the platform keeps them fresh.

2 live lessons with Zuhayr, no payment
Try Week 0 or Week 1 free Learn the script, then a real lesson: no account

Know some Arabic already? Take the free placement test to see your level. Everyone starts at Week 1 together.

Taught live by Zuhayr Chowdhury · Economics with Arabic, UCL · 7+ years teaching

“One of the best teachers I have had for Arabic … 100/10 recommend.” · Zahra, student ↓

Qur'anic Arabic · Adults

Saturday Morning Class

For adult learners ready to unlock the Qur'an's language for themselves: read it, hear it, understand it directly.

Day
Saturday
Time
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM UK time
Ages
17+
Classes: every Saturday · enrolment closes when the class starts · 20, 40 or 60 weeks · 100% online
From £399 for 20 weeks (£9.98 per hour) · first 2 lessons free · see all prices ↓
What's included
  • ✓ A live class every week with an experienced teacher
  • ✓ Spoken from the first minute: you never need to write in class
  • ✓ AI conversation partners to practise with, any time
  • ✓ Grammar & morphology (naḥw & ṣarf) applied straight to real ayat, from simple to complex structures
  • ✓ A personal dashboard that sets out today's practice and keeps track of your progress
  • ✓ Assessments throughout, a certificate of completion and a summary pack to keep
Inside a class: the two hours

Inside a class

  1. 0:00Settle in. A quick sound check and today's plan.
  2. 0:05Warm-up. A few words from last week, and how your practice went.
  3. 0:15New words. You see this week's words, hear them and say them back.
  4. 0:20New grammar. I show you the pattern in examples first, and you work out the rule.
  5. 0:45A short break.
  6. 0:55Drilling. We say the new pattern together, then practise it in breakout rooms.
  7. 1:15Speaking. You talk in pairs with the week's words and grammar. This is the main part of the class.
  8. 1:40Reading. A short text that uses the new grammar.
  9. 1:50Wrap-up. A quick check of what stuck, what to practise this week, and a look at next week.

Spoken all the way through: no writing. The exam weeks have their own shape.

🎓 By week 60 you can speak, read and listen to Qur'anic Arabic independently, and start accessing Islamic sciences and lectures taught in Arabic.

Questions first? Message me on WhatsApp or see the FAQ.

See a lesson come alive

Every grammar topic has its own short film.

Not a video: the words move, change their endings and join up live on the page, with captions, an English guide and Arabic voices. Here's Week 2's, free to watch.

The film starts with sound when you press it.Open it full screen →

The learning platform

Your own Arabic playground, between lessons.

Each week's lesson to go over at your own pace, games and stories made from its words, and an AI partner who's always up for a chat: something you'll want to open, not another app to feel guilty about.

Straight from the platform

01

Real practice, not just quizzes.

Each week's lesson has a dialogue to hear and repeat, the new words with their audio, a reading passage, listening and speaking practice, and exercises that mark themselves.

A reading passage in Arabic about reading a daily portion after dawn, with a multiple-choice question about it
02

Every rule, built to unlock a real ayah.

No grammar in the abstract: each week's rule meets a real ayah, recited by a real reciter and broken down word by word, with a note tying it back to what you've just learned.

The Qur'an Connection card for Surat al-Baqarah 2:212, 'And Allah provides for whom He wills without account,' with the reciter's audio, broken down word by word, and a grammar note on the present tense
03

Play & practise: games that make the words stick.

Race the clock, out-play the computer at cards, crack a root puzzle or find your words in real ayat. Later weeks open escape rooms and errands in an Arabic-speaking town. Every game brings the same words back in a new way, and meeting a word again and again is what makes it stay. Five minutes is plenty.

  • ✓Made only from the words you've been taught up to that week, so you're never guessing
  • ✓Just you and your own best score: no lives, no loot boxes, no leaderboards
  • ✓No music or sound effects: only voices, and the ayat from real reciters
  • ✓Stories to watch or read along with, short poems and a call-and-response chant, all from the same words
Try the gamesWeeks 1 and 2 are free to play. No account needed.
Play & practise: word tiles, playing cards and a root puzzle Four Arabic letter tiles spelling a word, a hand of three word cards with one picked, and the three root letters k-t-b joined to four words built from that root. بَيْتٌ مَسْجِدٌ كِتَابٌ كِ تَ ا بٌ ك ت ب كَتَبَ كِتَابٌ مَكْتَبٌ كَاتِبٌ

Talk with Amira & Ibrahim, your AI conversation partners

Speak or type whenever you like. They answer in fully vowelled Arabic, using only the words you've learned, read their reply aloud and show you a corrected version of what you said. Saturday stops being the only day you speak Arabic.

Always know exactly what's next

Your dashboard opens on today's plan: the words due for review, one game and the next part of your lesson. Your progress follows you from phone to laptop.

Try Weeks 1 and 2 yourself, free.

No account, no booking: the lessons, their games and films, and the AI conversation partners. See exactly what a week feels like before you book.

Open Week 1
Curriculum

Built to unlock the Qur'an directly.

Arabic grammar looks enormous until you see its shape: just three kinds of word, and a handful of ideas growing from each. This is the map we walk together, week by week.

Open the map of Arabic grammar
الاسم Nouns: things & descriptions الفعل Verbs: actions & time الحرف Particles: the small words that join it all
الإِعْرَابُ Holding every branch together: iʿrāb, how word-endings show each word's job in the sentence.

Plus plenty more, all sequenced week by week, all the way to reading independently.

Outcomes

Where you'll be at 20, 40 and 60 weeks.

Everyday conversation in your first 20 weeks. Each level after that adds deeper grammar, longer and more complex sentences, and the power to build new words. Each ring shows the share of the Qur'an's words you'll recognise by then.

Foundations
Weeks 1 to 20
Everyday conversation
55%
of the Qur'an's words will be words you've already met.
What you'll be able to do
  • SpeakTalk about yourself, family, daily life, plans and the past. Every lesson is spoken: you talk from the first minute, with no writing in class.
  • BuildFull sentences with adjectives, possession, prepositions, numbers and plurals.
  • VerbsSay what you do, what you did and what you will do.
  • Qur'anRecognise over half of its words, and follow the shape of short, simple ayat.
Intermediate
Weeks 21 to 40
Deeper grammar and knowledge
72%
of the Qur'an's words will be words you've already met.
What you'll be able to do
  • SpeakKeep talking, now with commands, "if… then", "except", wishes, and who did what to whom.
  • ReadRelative clauses, inna and its sisters, dual forms, and the jussive and subjunctive moods.
  • ListenFollow clear, steady spoken Arabic without translating every word.
  • Qur'anRead many straightforward ayat directly, reaching for a dictionary for the rarer words.
Advanced
Weeks 41 to 60
Word creation and independence
82%
of the Qur'an's words will be words you've already met.
What you'll be able to do
  • ReadThe maṣdar, the participles and the passive verb: what someone did, and what was done.
  • Create wordsVerb forms II to X: build and decode new words from their root and pattern.
  • Look upUse an Arabic dictionary yourself, with confidence.
  • ExpressSpeak, read and listen to Qur'anic Arabic with precision, on your own.
  • Qur'anAnalyse the grammar of almost any ayah, and start accessing Islamic sciences and lectures taught in Arabic.

How much of the Qur'an you'll recognise, week by week

The share of all 77,429 words in the Qur'an that you'll have been taught by the end of each week, judged exactly as the free Qur'an reader judges them.

  1. Week 1028%
  2. Week 2055%
  3. Week 3065%
  4. Week 4072%
  5. Week 5079%
  6. Week 6082%

More than a quarter of its words by Week 10, over half by Week 20 and about four in five by the end of the course.

Open the free Qur'an reader The whole Qur'an as a printed mushaf: the words you've met light up green, and every word has its meaning, root and grammar. No account needed.

How much do you understand already? Take the free 2-minute word check

Yours to keep

Your summary notes, to keep.

The platform stays open while your course runs and for one month after your last class. After that, you keep a summary pack: every rule, table and key word you've learned, one clean page for each week's lesson. Made for revising before an exam, refreshing a rule in two minutes, or picking Arabic back up years later.

  • ✓ The rule in a sentence, then the table that shows it
  • ✓ Examples straight from the Qur'an
  • ✓ The week's key words, fully vowelled
  • ✓ A quick "can you…?" self-check to finish
See a sample page
Preview
Diwanul Arab · Summary Notesدِيوَانُ الْعَرَبِ

Week 5 · Adjectives الصِّفَةُ

Foundations
The one rule: an adjective comes after its noun and copies it: same gender, same definiteness.
MeaningArabic
Masc., indefinitea big houseبَيْتٌ كَبِيرٌ
Fem., indefinitea big cityمَدِينَةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ
Masc., definitethe big houseالْبَيْتُ الْكَبِيرُ
Fem., definitethe big cityالْمَدِينَةُ الْكَبِيرَةُ
From the Qur'an
a clear bookكِتَابٌ مُبِينٌ
a great punishmentعَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ
Key words
عَظِيمٌgreatمُبِينٌclearأَلِيمٌpainfulعَزِيزٌmighty
☐ I can make an adjective match its noun☐ I can say "the big house" and "a big city"

A sample page, one of many.

Your teacher

Salaam, I'm Zuhayr.

📍 Manchester, United Kingdom 🌍 Teaching students worldwide, live online 📚 7+ years teaching & curriculum development 🎓 Economics with Arabic, UCL

From fintech to full-time Arabic teaching

I spent over ten years in fintech, teaching Arabic on the side for much of it, until the balance tipped and I left to teach full-time. Same rigour, work I care about more: helping adults read and understand the Qur'an for themselves.

My own Arabic started at UCL (Economics with Arabic) and studying abroad in Morocco, then years of hunting down what actually works. This course is the result: 7+ years of teaching and curriculum-building, including everything on this platform.

Taught live online from Manchester, so wherever you're joining from, you're in the same class. A question before you commit? Get in touch: I read every message myself.

Reviews

What my students say

  • Zuhayr is one of the best teachers I have had for Arabic. With his patience, charisma and superb organisation he has helped me bring my Arabic from basics to almost fluent conversations. He is great with students of all ages — I've been a student in both larger classes and 1-to-1. A knowledgeable, enthusiastic and dedicated teacher. Most friendly and approachable. 100/10 recommend, would not choose another teacher ever!
    Zahra
  • Zuhayr has sound knowledge on Arabic which resonates with his teaching skills. His classes are interactive, engaging and taught in a digestible manner. Anyone who learns by communicating, rather than sticking to textbooks only, should have a good experience with him. You never know, he might just rap something for you to remember your lesson!
    Samreen
  • It's always a pleasure learning from Zuhayr. His lessons are well planned, engaging, and delivered with genuine enthusiasm, which makes learning both enjoyable and effective.
    Emad
  • Was a very lovely experience, I would recommend to anyone nervous about starting
    Hisham
  • Nice and bubbly.
    Ibrahim
  • Both of my kids enjoys a lot their lesson with Zuhayr. He is really patient and nice. The lesson are always very nice.
    Mounnir
Pricing

Choose how far you'd like to go.

Start with 2 free lessons, live with me, and only pay if you carry on. Every level builds on the last, and the longer you stay, the less each hour costs.

  1. Try it yourself

    Weeks 1 and 2 (with their games and grammar films) and the Qur'an reader are free, with no account needed.

    Open Week 1 →

  2. 2 free live lessons

    Your first 2 lessons of the Saturday class, live on Zoom with me. No payment for them.

  3. Choose your level

    Carry on for 20, 40 or 60 weeks, and pay by bank transfer, only if you decide to.

    Compare the levels ↓

Foundations

20 weeks
Weeks 1 to 20
£399
£9.98 per hour
40 hours of live teaching · 2 hours a week

Intermediate

40 weeks
Weeks 1 to 40
£599
£7.49 per hour
80 hours of live teaching · 2 hours a week
Best value

Advanced

60 weeks
Weeks 1 to 60
£699
£5.83 per hour
120 hours of live teaching · 2 hours a week

The last 20 weeks cost just £100 more than 40. That is 40 extra hours of live teaching for £2.50 an hour.

Questions about paying? Ask me before you decide.

Had your free lessons? Choose your level

“Was a very lovely experience, I would recommend to anyone nervous about starting.”
Hisham, student
Included at every level

Included at every level

  • ✓ One live class every week, 2 hours, with me
  • ✓ The learning platform while your course runs, and for a month after your last class
  • ✓ AI conversation partners, any time
  • ✓ Assessments and a certificate of completion
  • ✓ A summary pack to keep
  • ✓ 2 free lessons to begin, no payment until you decide
Before you book

Questions people ask first

Starting out

Who is the course for?

Adults (17+) who want to read, hear and understand the Qur'an's language for themselves. It's 100% online, so you can join from anywhere.

Do I need to read Arabic script already?

Yes. The course is taught in vowelled Arabic script, with no transliteration in the readings or exercises, so you need to be able to sound out the letters with their vowel marks. Slowly is fine. New to the letters? Learn them first with our free Week 0 guide (with audio, no account needed). Not sure? Open Week 1 for free and try the first lines.

I already know some Arabic. Where would I start?

Everyone starts at Week 1 together, and the weeks you already know are revision for you. Take the free placement test to see your level: your result goes with your booking, so I can plan your free lessons around it.

Can I try the platform before I book?

Yes. Weeks 1 and 2 are free with no account needed: the lessons, their games and their grammar films. The Qur'an reader is free for everyone.

The live class

What happens in the 2 free lessons?

They are your first 2 live lessons of the Saturday class, on Zoom, with me. I'll email you the Zoom link before your first lesson. There's no payment for them: you only pay if you decide to carry on.

What time is the class where I live?

Saturdays, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM UK time, live on Zoom.

Can I join after the class has started?

No. Enrolment closes when the class starts, and there's no joining part-way through. If you've missed the start, leave your email and I'll tell you when a new class opens.

Do I have to write in class?

No. Every class is spoken: you talk from the first minute. Between classes, the learning platform has reading, listening and speaking practice, games and word review.

Are the lessons recorded?

No. The classes are live and aren't recorded, but the learning platform has every lesson, with its audio and exercises, so you can go back over anything you've covered.

Price and access

What's included in the price?

One live 2-hour class every week, the learning platform while your course runs and for one month after your last class, the AI conversation partners, assessments with a certificate of completion, and a summary pack to keep. See the prices.

How do I pay?

By bank transfer, for the course length you choose (20, 40 or 60 weeks). Your first 2 live lessons are free, and you only pay if you decide to carry on after them.

How long can I use the learning platform?

While your course runs, and for one month after your last class: everything up to the week you reached stays open, so you can go back over it. After that, you keep your summary pack.

Are the AI conversation partners extra?

No. They're included at every level, and you can practise with them any time.

Something else?

Ask me directly. I read every message myself.

Message me on WhatsApp or send me a message
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