# Takallum (تَكَلُّم)

> Takallum is a free web app for practising spoken Modern Standard Arabic (fusha). Learners read an English cue, say the Arabic out loud, reveal a fully vowelled model answer with text-to-speech audio, and mark themselves. Missed sentences come back sooner (spaced repetition). No sign-up; progress is saved in the browser.

URL: https://takallum.ummahapps.ai/
Publisher: Ummah Apps (https://ummahapps.ai/)
Price: free
Level: beginner to intermediate; learners should already read Arabic script
Interface language: English. Practice language: Modern Standard Arabic.

## Practice modes

- **Swap-in drills**: 18 sentence patterns, 136 sentences. Each pattern has a short plain-English explanation and per-sentence tips.
- **Transform chains**: 7 chains in which one sentence changes step by step (person, gender, tense, negation, question).
- **Role-play**: 6 everyday conversations with a model reply for each of your turns. Optional "listen first" mode hides the other speaker's words.

## Patterns covered

Everyday phrases:
- أُرِيدُ أَنْ … (I want to + verb)
- أَيْنَ …؟ (Where is the …?)
- هَلْ عِنْدَكَ …؟ (Do you have …?)
- أُحِبُّ … (I like …)
- هَلْ يُمْكِنُكَ أَنْ …؟ (Can you …?)
- أَحْتَاجُ إِلَى … (I need …)

Grammar builders:
- لَمْ + present verb (didn't), including weak and hollow verbs
- كَانَ + description (was / were), and the accusative predicate
- كَانَ + present verb (was doing / used to)
- مَا زَالَ and أَصْبَحَ (still / became), sisters of كَانَ
- إِنَّ, أَنَّ, لِأَنَّ, لَكِنَّ (inna and her sisters) with nouns and attached pronouns
- present verb + مُنْذُ (have been doing for / since)
- يَجِبُ عَلَى … أَنْ (must / have to), لَا يَجِبُ and أَلَّا
- الَّذِي / الَّتِي / الَّذِينَ (relative clauses, with the returning pronoun)
- the idafa (possessive construction), including chains
- أَفْعَلُ comparatives and superlatives (bigger than / the biggest)
- conditionals: إِذَا (real) vs لَوْ (imagined), with فَـ and لَـ
- numbers 1 to 20 with nouns and reverse gender agreement

## Transform chains

لَمْ (didn't); كَانَ (was); to go (يَذْهَبُ); to write (يَكْتُبُ); to eat (يَأْكُلُ); the weather (الْجَوُّ); to have (عِنْدِي).

## Role-play conversations

Talking about yesterday; meeting someone; at the shop; asking the way; visiting a home; at the doctor's.

## Features

- Normal and slow audio using the device's Arabic text-to-speech voice
- Vowel marks (harakat) on by default, can be switched off
- Keyboard shortcuts: Space to reveal, 1 for missed, 2 for got it
- Works on phones and desktops; light and dark themes