تمرينTamreen

‫أهــــلاً يا طــــالِــــب !‬

Welcome, student of Arabic, to my flashcard tool. There are others like it, but this one is mine.

I built it with features specific to learning Arabic, and I plan to add many more. In some ways it still has some catching up to do compared to other, non-specialized flashcard tools, but I’ve already found it more helpful for learning Arabic, and I hope you do too.

Keep in mind that both the interface and the data are probably buggy, and please keep me informed of anything you notice that could be better; chances are I won’t notice something that you will.

Among the features I plan to add, fix, or improve in a later release:

• Inflection and affixation (e.g., verb conjugation)
• Support for typed responses
• Differentiation of ambiguous prompts
• Addition of a card-selection algorithm (currently it’s random)
• Automated “weaning” from vocalization
• More granular search features
• Addition of a dictionary feature and specialized drills

Again, please don’t hesitate to email me with bugs, ideas, and other feedback. Good luck studying!

شُكراً !

‫مرغان دوسي‬
Morgan Doocy
mdoocy@u

A word about browsers

Normally I would be diligent about browser testing, but I’ve built this tool primarily for myself, and I don’t have all the time in the world.

Therefore I’m only going to maintain the following browser support:

• 
  Safari 4
• 
  Chrome 4

Works great, with neat visual effects.

• 
  Firefox 3.5
• 
  Opera 10

Works fine, with no visual effects.

• 
  Internet Explorer 8

Doesn’t work; not going to make it work. Sorry.

In case you’re curious: At their core (i.e., ignoring the user interface), Safari and Chrome are currently the best web browsers available (for reasons that have nothing to do with the visual effects). Much love and respect to Opera and Firefox, but they’re currently in second place. IE has been, for the better part of a decade, definitively the worst major browser available, and I refuse to spend my study time enabling Microsoft’s neglect of its browser. So there.

If you have a supported browser… يَلّا !