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Getting started with Wise Arabic

What to do in your first Wise Arabic session: choose a Study Plan, save words, and run a review.

Wise Arabic helps serious learners build Arabic vocabulary that lasts. The daily loop is: explore words, save the useful ones, understand them, and review them through spaced repetition.

This guide walks through that loop once.

New accounts get a short guided setup that covers most of this: a Study Plan choice, five starter words, a first review, and display and timezone preferences. This guide covers the same ground for anyone who skipped it, and everything here can be changed later.

1. Choose whether to use a Study Plan

A Study Plan gives Wise Arabic a default answer to: "what should I study next?"

Choose one of three options:

  • Book plan: best if you are following a textbook such as Madinah Arabic, Al-Arabiyyah Bayna Yadayk, or Lisan al-Qur'an.
  • Pathway plan: best if you want an ordered sequence around a goal, such as general vocabulary, media, medicine, Islamic studies, or business.
  • No plan: best if you prefer to browse freely and choose by topic.
A Study Plan is useful when you want a clear next source to continue.

A plan does not lock you in. You can still browse and save words from anywhere.

2. Check study preferences

Open Settings and confirm:

  1. Arabic font: choose what is easiest to read accurately.
  2. Transliteration: use it if it helps, but do not let it replace Arabic-script recognition.
  3. Timezone: make sure due counts and streaks match where you study.
  4. Day-reset hour: choose when your review day should roll over.
  5. Preferred daily review load: how many reviews you can sustain on a normal day. Wise Arabic uses it to suggest how many new words fit each day.

A review day is the local study day Wise Arabic uses for due cards and streaks. The default reset is 3 AM, so late-night study still counts toward the same day.

3. Add your first words

Open Explore and choose a collection that is useful now. Inspect unfamiliar words, then add a small batch to My Vocabulary.

Aim for 5–15 words in your first session. A small batch is easier to review consistently than a large pile.

Start with a small batch you are willing to review.

The moment you add a word, it joins My Vocabulary and can enter review.

4. Run your first review

Open Learn and start the combined review. It covers everything due across Nouns, Verbs, Pieces, and Plurals; the individual groups are there when you want targeted practice.

For each review card:

  1. Read the prompt and recall the answer before revealing it.
  2. Show the answer.
  3. Rate yourself Again, Hard, Good, or Easy.
Rate honestly. The next interval depends on the rating.

Use Easy only when the answer was genuinely effortless. If you struggled, choose Hard or Good. Overrating cards makes them come back too late.

5. Build the daily loop

After the first session, use this order:

  1. Open the dashboard and read its suggested next action.
  2. Clear due review if anything is due.
  3. Continue your Study Plan, or browse Explore if you have no plan.
  4. Add new words at the pace the dashboard suggests.
  5. Revisit bookmarked words or flagged words when they are starting to pile up.
Use the dashboard to decide the next useful action.

Short consistent sessions beat occasional large ones. Reviews stay useful when the load remains manageable.

Where to go next

  • Documentation: guides on word types, collections, Study Plans, review, and My Vocabulary.
  • Articles: longer-form writing on Arabic vocabulary learning.