Learn Lebanese Arabic a few minutes a day

Ya Qalbi teaches Lebanese Arabic the way it's spoken at home, from saying hello to ordering food and catching up with family. Lessons take a few minutes. Every word comes with audio and is written in Arabic script and in Latin letters.

Coming soon to the App Store.

Jojo the phoenix holding a book, perched on a branch above a Lebanese valley

Real Lebanese,
not textbook Arabic

Most Arabic apps teach Modern Standard Arabic, the formal language of books and the news. Every word in Ya Qalbi is Lebanese, the words and phrases you'd hear from your family or on the street in Beirut.

Three Ya Qalbi phoenixes with storybooks: Baher in blue, Arz in green and Jojo in orange
Jojo the phoenix holding a gold dahab medallion stamped with a Lebanese cedar

Earn dahab as you learn

Finish a lesson and you earn dahab, Lebanese for gold. Collect enough and you'll learn a piece of Lebanon's story along with the language.

Pick your phoenix

Jojo, Baher, Banafsaj, Shams, Rita or Arz. Each one comes from a different part of Lebanon, and the one you choose is with you in every lesson.

The six Ya Qalbi phoenixes side by side: Arz, Banafsaj, Baher, Shams, Jojo and Rita

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