Kalima: Classical Arabic Tutor Live

Kalima walks a fixed, published ladder of 118 concepts, in the order the classical grammarians converged on, from the 28 letters to reading unvowelled classical prose unaided. You write Arabic by hand on real paper, photograph the page, and Bahir checks, letter for letter, what your hand actually wrote. Nothing is marked learned until you use it correctly, in your own words, on a later day — and none of it is religious content. You were never bad at Arabic. You were handed the wrong map. 118 PUBLISHED STEPS, AND AN END The whole map is on our website, concept by concept, at kalima.chat/path: the script and its sounds, high-frequency vocabulary, ṣarf, naḥw, graded reading, and last the unvowelled page. Only the ordering is inherited; every lesson and drill is written fresh, and you always know which step you are standing on. WRITE IT ON PAPER. HE CHECKS IT. Bahir dictates, you write the sentence by hand with a pen, then photograph your page: he reads your own handwriting back and tells you, word by word, what came out right. A keyboard quietly fixes the very mistakes your hand has to stop making. NO CREDIT UNTIL YOU USE IT, A DAY LATER Recognising a rule does not count, and neither does a quiz taken right after the lesson: a concept is sealed only when you produce it correctly, in a sentence of your own, on a second and different day. A deterministic engine, not the chatty AI, keeps that score. A STORY WRITTEN FOR THE WORDS YOU HAVE You get a running serial: each episode is written at your level from the words you have really met, carries on the one story, and stops on a hook. The next episode waits for a new day, not for more grinding. NO RELIGIOUS CONTENT. NONE. Kalima is not a Quran app: it never quotes, explains or interprets scripture, and no lesson is built from one. Every text is secular classical Arabic, freshly written — proverbs, ḥikma, adab, history, stories. We teach the key, never the door. THE HARD SOUNDS, SCORED ONE BY ONE Speak into the microphone and the letters non-natives actually miss are scored separately: the emphatics ص ض ط ظ, your ع, your ح. You are told which one drifted. THE CORRECTION CARD NAMES THE RULE When a sentence of yours is wrong, a card folds out underneath it: the correction, the name of the rule you broke in your own language, and a more eloquent way to have said it. EVERY WORD YOU MEET COMES BACK Words enter your review deck because you met them in your own conversation, not because a list decreed them; a real FSRS engine picks the day each one returns. ALSO INSIDE - Tap any word: the root, Forms I-X, the plurals, synonym nuance, antonyms. - Tap a sentence for a full i'rāb parse, every case and mood with its reason. - A fresh reading passage daily, a graded classical library, and a tutor who speaks. - Kalima ships in English and French, and teaches Arabic to speakers of either. CLASSICAL FUṢḤĀ, NEVER A DIALECT Eloquent and fully inflected, yet warm and comprehensible. Diacritics while you learn, never a transliteration crutch, until the day you need neither. SUBSCRIPTION Kalima Pro unlocks Bahir and every AI feature: the conversation, the corrections, the voice, the analyses, the drills and the daily readings. - Kalima Pro Monthly: 1 month, USD 14.99 per month - Kalima Pro Yearly: 1 year, USD 149.99 per year (two months free) The price is shown in your own currency inside the app; see in-app for the local price. Payment is charged to your Google Play account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the price of the plan you chose unless you cancel it before the end of the current period. You can cancel at any time in the Google Play Store app, under Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions; access continues until the end of the period already paid. Terms of Use: https://kalima.chat/terms Privacy Policy: https://kalima.chat/privacy