selmetwa

Great work!

I thought about that, but I wanted to support numbers still

Blog about creating a phonetic arabic keyboard

very depressing read...

A language learning platform for Arabic.

https://parallel-arabic.com/about https://github.com/selmetwa/parallel-arabic

Wow amazing project! Happy to see Egyptian Arabic as one of the supported languages.

I wonder what % would be immigrants + children of immigrants

cool

Journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard

gotcha, is there a way to delete a post? I cant seem to find it.

Using a mic

That would be a great feature, definitely going to look into how to implement something like that.

oof, ty lol

The issue is that nobody speaks "classic" arabic in day to day life, so its not very useful. The egyptian dialect on the other hand is the most widely spoken dialect and understandable by most arabic speakers.

Ah the keyboard was designed specifically for native english speakers, mapping the english letters to their closest approximate arabic equivalent.

For example s = س

My Arabic is terrible also haha, part of my impetus for making the tool

That is correct, I should have been more specific

Ah yeah I should specify this is in the egyptian dialect

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback, definitely need to polish the mobile experience. And yeah as of now just the one story as a POC, I plan on adding more in the future.

Source code is here for anyone curious: https://github.com/selmetwa/parallel-arabic

Ah, "Listen" is actually a button you can click to hear the audio. Only keywords (those highlighted) actually have the translation included.

That is correct, this tool assumes a basic understanding of the Arabic alphabet, and I think in the long run being able to read the arabic script will accelerate your learning progress much faster than just using franco.

There is an option to view the transliteration next to the arabic and english text as well, you just have to toggle "Sentence view"

Really cool! I like that bookmarking seems to be making a comeback. I really like the low-tech approach. It would be cool if there was a social component to it as well.

I actually worked on a similar project centered around social bookmarking; https://huntergather.website/.

Arabic Virtual Keyboard is a tool that helps english speakers write in Arabic without having a dedicated arabic keyboard

The keyboard is fully featured and contains support for all letters, numbers, special characters, diacritical marks, and text to speech.

Built as a web component

weird this is on the second page but has no comments

Just to throw my hat in the ring I also worked on a social bookmarking site called HunterGather, with an emphasis on visual bookmarking and collections.

https://huntergather.website/

In.ht looks great though!

Really cool project, reminds me a bit of are.na.

I worked on a similar project https://huntergather.website/. Glad to see other people working on social bookmarking.

Cool project, I also think a lot about social bookmarking, and worked on a similar project called HunterGather. How did you go about getting so many users?

https://huntergather.website/