The seven Arabics
Six spoken dialects and the written standard, each recorded by a speaker of that variety. Pick one to hear it.
Why seven
Arabic is one written language and many spoken ones. A child in Casablanca and a child in Beirut both read the same newspaper and neither says the same word for tomato. PopPond records six of the spoken varieties alongside the written standard, so a learner can hear the difference instead of reading about it.
The Levant
Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian sit close together. Speakers of all three follow each other without effort, and the differences are mostly accent, intonation and a handful of everyday words.
Egypt and the Maghreb
Egyptian travels furthest of any spoken variety because of decades of film and television. Moroccan and Algerian Darija have their own sound system and their own vocabulary, and almost nothing has ever been recorded of them for children.
And the written standard
Fusha, also called Modern Standard Arabic, is what schools teach and newspapers print. Nobody speaks it at home. Learning it alongside a dialect gives a child both the page and the conversation.
Seven dialects. One app.
Every word photographed and recorded by a native speaker, in all seven.