Use the settings to adjust the flash card view. Toggle as many settings as desired and return back to the Arabic Flash Cards .

Help

The Arabic Flash Card program was designed to go through vocabulary words presented in Arabic I and II classes. The basic functionality can be found below. You can go back to the Flash Cards by using this link.

Display Options

The main display has three rows to display a word or phrae in english, transliterated arabic, and arabic. The rows that are displayed can vary depending on the preferred settings. The default is to hide the english while dislaying the transliterated arabic and the arabic.

Options that have been selected will appear in blue; options that have not been selected will appear in white.

Settings

The settings have been designed to allow for a variety of word lists to be displayed. Options for each of the various configuration settings are explained below.

1411:



The numbers visible represent the words found in each unit of the Arabic 1411 class. This class uses the Alif Baa book. (ﺄﻠﻓ ﺏﺍﺀ) Turning on any of the units will make words from that unit of the book available. Click on the None or All button to disable/enable all of the units in this class.

1411:



The numbers visible represent the words found in each unit of the Arabic 1411 class. This class uses the Alif Baa book. Turning on any of the units will make words from that unit of the book available. Click on the None or All button to disable/enable all of the units in this class.

Display:



The display option will designate which words or phrases are displayed when each new card is loaded. This allows the user to practice going from English to Arabic or from Arabic to English.

Speech:



The speech option will let the user determine which words should be displayed based on the part of speech. These might include countries, interrogatives, adjectives, verbs, and etc. If the all option has been selected, then any other parts of speech selected will be ommitted. If the all option has not been selected, then only the parts speech selected will be displayed in the cards.

Gender:



The gender option will let the user determine if they want to specifically practice masculine or feminine words. If neither option has been selected or both options are selected, then both masculine and feminine words will be displayed.

Number:



The number option will let the user determine if they want to practice words in the singular or plural form. If neither option has been selecvted or if both options have been selected, then both singular and plural words will be displayed.

Diacritics:



By default, all of the Arabic words that will be presented in their formal form with all diacritics and short vowels included. If the user selected none, then neither the short vowels nor diacritics will be displayed on the Arabic word. If the shadda option has been selected, then all diacritics will be removed except for the shadda.

Preserving Options:

The display options are preserved by using a COOKIE. This means that the user's settings should be preserved each time they come back to the program (unless they have cleared their COOKIES on their browser). Consequently, the site does require the use of COOKIES in order to function properly.

Frequency of Words:

Each time a new word is loaded for a user, a the date and time that the word was loaded is associated with the user's session. Within the words available within the settings chosen, the program will attempt to only load words that have not recently been diplayed to the user.