Serious Language Student flashcards offer you the following:

• users are methodically introduced to 1000+ words of common Arabic vocabulary.

• progress through the vocabulary is personalized to the user. As the user responds to a flashcard successfully, that card is presented less frequently. If the user needs to review that card, it is presented more frequently. The  formula on which the frequency of card repetition is based flows from research on effective learning curves.

• the Flashcards program lives on the user’s device. One does not need to be connected to the Internet to run the program and practice. One is not affected by the speed of one’s Internet connection. One’s progress is recorded on one’s device, so one is protected from the records ever being “lost in the cloud.”

• words are introduced first going from Arabic to English e.g., ذَهَبَ to “to go”, then English to Arabic, e.g., “to go” to  ذَهَبَ ,

• practice is never multiple choice. Understanding, speaking, and  reading Arabic are not multiple choice tasks. (Do other products use multiple choice?)

• users can override the order in which  new vocabulary is introduced in order to adapt to the order of vocabulary  introduction of any teacher or textbook. (Do other products have this adaptability?)

• users can combine a teacher or textbook’s order of introducing new words with the order in which Serious Language Student introduces them by allowing Serious Language Student methodically to expand beyond the teacher or textbook, if the teacher or textbook words are being mastered well.

• users who are coordinating use of Serious Language Student flashcards with a language course can set Serious Language Student to quiz mode in order to drill a certain set of words with no expansion of vocabulary but staying with the drill of only those words. After the drill or test Serious Language Student can be toggled back to gradual vocabulary expansion. (Do other products have this quiz concentration option.)

• users can add vocabulary words in addition to the 1000+ words with which Serious Language Student comes supplied. Thus, users with a teacher or textbook or users reading on their own can add to the vocabulary list all the vocabulary introduced by that teacher or textbook or interesting words encountered in reading. Users then practice those added words as part of the Serious Language Student practice. (The ability to add words to the vocabulary corpus appears to be unique to Serious Language Student.)

• users practice reading Arabic as they will see it in the Arabic speaking world, i.e., without voweling. However, users will write Arabic vocabulary with voweling to be sure that they know how the words are pronounced, e.g., “to drink” is to be completed: “shariba”, not *”sharaba” or *”sharuba.” (Do other products handle voweling correctly, both in reading Arabic and in writing Arabic?)

• grammar points needed to master vocabulary are included. Not only is حَربٌ included meaning “war” or “warfare,” but it is also marked as feminine. Not only is عَرَفَ included meaning “to know,” “to recognize,” or “to be aware of,” but its present masculine singular يَعرِفُ ya^rifu is also included, not *يَعرَفُ *ya^rafu or *يَعرُبُ *ya^rufu. Not onlyl is كَبير included, meaning “big” or “great,” but its broken masculine plural, كِبار kibaar is also included. (Its feminine singular and feminine plural are sound and therefor taken for granted.)  (Do other products include complete grammatical information about each word?)