The best Gulf Arabic websites

Covers Egyptian, Levantine, Saudi, Iraqi, Sudanese, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian with native-speaker audio and video dialogues and transcripts, which makes it the most practical single answer for someone who has picked a dialect other than Egyptian. Useful too if you are still deciding and want to hear them side by side. It is a paid membership, material is organised as a library rather than a course, and depth varies a lot between the well-served dialects and the smaller ones.

A long-running course covering Gulf pronunciation, script, grammar, everyday vocabulary and business communication, with audio recorded for every word and sentence, aimed at expatriates working in the region. Gulf Arabic is badly underserved, so a sequenced course of any kind is worth knowing about. Some introductory lessons are free and the rest is a paid membership; the site design is dated and there is little independent review of the material.

Over a thousand clips — TV, music, interviews, cartoons — each with tappable Arabic and English captions, an audio dictionary and vocabulary practice, filterable by Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf, Maghrebi, MSA or Educated Spoken Arabic. It is the cleanest way to train your ear on how a specific dialect actually sounds instead of textbook recordings. There is a free tier and trial, but the useful volume needs a subscription, and there is an alphabet course but no full grammar syllabus.

Search a word and see how it is used in Classical Arabic and across Egyptian, Levantine, North African, Gulf, Iraqi, Sudanese and Yemeni, with roots, plurals, pronunciation notes and example sentences — something no other free resource comes close to. Essential once you start reading or listening to real dialect material. The web dictionaries are free (a paid Lughatuna app adds offline access), and coverage is much thicker for Egyptian and Levantine than for the others.