hi! i hope you don't mind me jumping onto this post, but there's a great deal of resources for learning arabic!
this masterpost by @rosepaige is a great starter post, with a ton of linked resources to websites, apps, etc, etc. i have yet to check any of them out, but the post is very comprehensive, and i think would be a good place to start finding out what works for you.
another masterpost, this one by @wonderful-language-sounds, geared towards beginners. it has text recommendations, websites, apps, podcasts, and more.
the busuu arabic course, if you have busuu, is, in my opinion, pretty decent. it takes you through all the letters, and explains the way they appear in initial, medial, final, and isolated forms—i grew up reading arabic, as a muslim, so i didn't really need this, but i know it's one of the hardest things for people who aren't familiar with the script, because letters appear in so many different forms. the course also explains diacritics (arabic doesn't actually have stand-alone vowels; they're indicated above or below the character, along with things like stops and pauses). the one hard point to busuu in my opinion is that there's a lot of vocab thrown at you very early on, so unless you take a lot of notes, it can be hard to get through lessons as you go along.
if you want reading materials, there's read play learn! they have reading materials designed along the comprehensible input method, and go from novice to advanced.
if you're interested in listening, i've heard good things about language transfer—they only have an intro arabic course, but it's all taught through audio.
this post by @h0neytalk has a bunch of tips for practicing your writing! writing in arabic script is a pretty challenging task if you don't have any familiarity, both because it's written and read right to left, and because of the rules for how letters appear in different places in a word. practice makes perfect!
these are just the highlights i can think of—i have more posts on my blog under the arabic tag, which you can browse here! good luck, i hope you enjoy your journey!
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