About Ayahwise

This course is for people who can already read the Quran in Arabic and want to understand it directly. It teaches the meaning of Quranic vocabulary first, then phrases, sentences and whole verses built only from words you have learned.

How the vocabulary is chosen

• The course opens with the words of Al-Fatihah, which every learner recites in each prayer.
• Every few units another daily-recited text becomes a milestone: Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq, An-Nas, Al-'Asr, Al-Kawthar, An-Nasr, Al-Kafirun and Ayat al-Kursi. Their rarer words are taught just before, and once you know every word you read the whole text with its meaning, and you can read it again at any time.
• As your vocabulary grows, other surahs come within reach: once you know 75% of a surah's words you can try reading it, a passage at a time, choosing what each verse means (practice only: it does not change your reviews).
• After that, each next word is chosen by a weighted score combining frequency in the Quran (log-scaled), coverage (how close it brings real phrases, short verses and the daily-recited surahs to being fully understood), a teacher's tier judgement, root families (related words taught close together) and concreteness (easy-to-picture words first). Each unit mixes content words with particles.
• Prefixes such as وَ “and” and بِ “with”, and attached pronouns such as ـهُمْ “them / their”, are taught as vocabulary because you need them to understand real words like وَلَهُمْ.

How you practise

• Spaced repetition (an SM-2 style scheduler with short learning steps) brings each item back just before you are likely to forget it.
• Adaptive difficulty: your level (1 to 10) moves with your answers, from Easy through Intermediate, Challenge and Advanced to Mastery. Easy and Intermediate are mostly multiple choice; from Challenge onwards you increasingly recall and type the meaning, find words in context and explain whole verses. You can make it easier or harder at any time; your progress is never reset.
• Hints: tap any word in a phrase or verse to see its meaning, parts and root. Transliteration is available as an optional hint. Using a hint is fine: the item will simply come back a little sooner.

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