Lebanon Chronicles

Learn Lebanese Arabic by exploring Beirut.

Follow your cousin Jamila and your Teta around the city. Knock on doors, chat with the neighbors, get lost on purpose. Every conversation teaches you the words people really use, in Arabic script, Latin letters and audio.

FIVE WAYS TO LEARN, ONE CITY

• Live the story
Land in Beirut, meet your cousin Jamila and your Teta, and talk your way across the city.

• Play to remember
Run Karim's dikkene, wait tables at Rita's restaurant, count with Ali, read the clock, fish off the Corniche. Little games that make the words stick.

• Review every word
Every encounter unlocks a deck of flashcards. Read, listen, quiz yourself, then build your own deck and share it.

• Take real classes
Structured lessons in Jamila's classroom, with free video lessons. Then Mr Hashem's final exam.

• Take on other players
Pull up a chair at Louis' table in Jnah and play real people, live: Vocab Rush, Number Rush, Memory Duel, Quiz Night, Draw & Guess, Word by Word.

AND AROUND THE CITY

• The television: Lebanese programmes, with subtitles beside them
• Ten cassettes hidden across Lebanon, found by ear
• Kelmet el Yom: one word to guess, every day
• The book of poems: read the players' poems, send your own
• A chat with players from all over the world

COMPLETELY FREE

No ads, no paywall, no "Premium" tier hiding the good lessons. Lebanon Chronicles is made for the love of Lebanon and of its language.

It will never replace a human teacher: use it beside your lessons, or bring it into your classroom.