But my problem is with the sentence structure, choice of words, and the message conveyed further in the course. I believe that the team working on the Arabic language course has done a great job in teaching the alphabet, symbols, vowel markings (harakat), the Hamza positions, special symbols, and numbers. This isn't me saying that the course is inaccurate to my school, personal understanding, and knowledge of Arabic, but I think if more native Arabic speakers took on this course, they would agree that something's just not right. I'm well aware that there are several Arabic dialects and several linguistic methods to say different things, with different schools and different cultural influences as well. Not to mention that the quality and choice of words for most of the lessons in the units were very very odd. Many words that the Duolingo female robot voice we've all grown used to was saying didn't sound anything like Arabic (in terms of the vowel markings and pronunciation but instead were closer to a weak attempt at it. As I kept going with the course, I noticed that this persisted and grew more inconsistent with any Arabic dialect. Considering that the form of Arabic being taught is Fus'ha Arabic (formal literary Arabic, regardless if it is Classical Arabic or MSA), the auditory parts of the lesson started to seem a little inaccurate. So right off the bat, I started noticing some inconsistencies. I love reading books in Arabic and have mastered Arabic Kawaeed (Grammar) over the course of my life. I have always been passionate about the Arabic language. As a native Arabic speaker, I decided to take the Arabic course from start to finish to see what it would be like for a beginner. As a language enthusiast and polyglot, I have been starting each language-studying process with Duolingo for as long as I can remember.

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