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English built for a mind that
thinks in Arabic.

Most courses teach English as though every learner starts from the same place. Iksir English starts from where Arabic speakers actually get stuck — the prepositions that don't translate, the collocations that sound wrong, the sounds that don't exist in Arabic — and works outward from there.

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822lessons explained in Arabic

829placement questions

1,501listening, speaking & writing drills

A1–C2every CEFR level covered

Why it's different

Designed around Arabic-speaker errors

A generic course cannot know that you will write depend from, or that p and b will blur, or that an advice feels correct. Iksir English is built on exactly those patterns.

200 common-error lessons

Each one isolates a single mistake Arabic speakers make, explains why the Arabic structure causes it, and drills the correct form until it stops feeling foreign.

Sounds Arabic doesn't have

Minimal-pair training for the contrasts that cause the most misunderstanding, with word-stress practice — the single change that most improves intelligibility.

Collocations and prepositions

276 entries covering the word partnerships that reveal a non-native speaker instantly — each shown with the correct form and the mistake it replaces.

Spaced repetition

An SM-2 scheduler brings each word back just before you would have forgotten it, so review time goes to what is actually fading rather than what you already know.

Genuinely offline

An installable web app. After the first visit everything is stored on your device: no connection and no account needed, and unless you choose to sign in, no data leaves your phone. It works on a plane and in a village.

Built for short sessions

A daily path, a one-minute mode, weekly challenges and a night-study mode — because the learners who succeed are the ones who return, not the ones who study longest once.

Exam preparation

A complete IELTS suite, not a section

Every question type the real exam uses is implemented — including the ones most apps skip, because they are the ones candidates lose marks on.

Full timed mock

All four sections under exam conditions, with an analytical result page: a skills radar, a breakdown of error types and a prioritised list of what to fix first.

Every question type

True/False/Not Given, Yes/No/Not Given, headings, gap-fill, matching, sentence and summary completion, form and note completion, and map labelling on real drawn plans.

63 writing tasks with models

Task 1 charts, tables, processes and maps, General Training letters, and Task 2 essays — each with a paragraph plan, ready phrases, a full model answer and the traps to avoid.

Word limits enforced

Gap-fill answers are marked against the real word limit, so an answer that is correct in meaning but too long is marked wrong here — exactly as it would be in the exam.

Thirty-day track

An intensive schedule that assigns each day's work and keeps a score log, so preparation stops being a matter of deciding what to study every morning.

Speaking bank

Part 1, 2 and 3 practice with model answers and a timed mode, plus a conversation studio of 56 scripted dialogues covering the situations examiners actually ask about.

What's inside

Real content, by the numbers

Plenty of apps have a beautiful interface and very little behind it. These are the actual figures for what you will find, all available from day one.

3,009words in the vocabulary centre

829placement questions

541dictation sentences

503error-detection exercises

276collocations & prepositions

207English idioms

200Arabic-speaker error lessons

161reading passages

140reverse-translation drills

113ready academic phrases

108word families

84listening recordings

And more: 63 writing tasks with model answers · 56 conversation dialogues · 60 story chapters · 52 cultural notes · 52 weekly challenges · 50 achievements · 15 reading-skill drills · 14 form-completion exercises · 9 labelled maps

Paths and plans

A daily path that decides what to study each morning, a thirty-day IELTS track, 52 weekly challenges and a weekly report that summarises what actually moved.

Speaking and pronunciation

A conversation studio with 56 dialogues, minimal-pair training for difficult sounds, 15 situational scenarios and 10 full telephone conversations.

English for work and study

Six professional tracks with a certificate, a CV and cover-letter guide, and 113 academic phrases for research writing and formal correspondence.

Learning that isn't homework

Five language games, 50 achievements unlocked as you go, learning from film dialogue, and 50 English jokes explained — because the humour is the last thing to click.

Every level, genuinely

Reading and listening are graded A1 to C2, so a true beginner is not handed intermediate text on day one — a gap most platforms quietly leave open.

No account needed, no tracking

Nothing is uploaded. Progress lives in your browser and you can export it as a file whenever you want to move devices — or delete it in one tap.

For teachers & institutions

Using Iksir English with Arabic-speaking learners

This page exists because the app itself is entirely in Arabic. If you teach, advise or fund Arabic-speaking students, here is what you need in order to judge whether it is worth recommending.

Why the interface is Arabic

Explaining English grammar in English is precisely the barrier that stops lower-level learners. A student who cannot yet read the explanation cannot use the explanation. Every rule, hint and correction here is in the learner's first language — deliberately, not as a limitation.

Aligned to CEFR

Placement runs A1 to C2 against a bank of 829 graded questions, and reading and listening are individually levelled, so a student can be given material at their own level rather than at the class average.

Set it as homework

Every section is reachable by a direct link — reading, listening, the writing lab, the placement test, the full IELTS mock. Send a student a link and they arrive in the right place with no navigation and no account needed.

Nothing is collected

No account is required and there are no analytics. Without sign-in, progress stays in the learner's own browser, which makes it usable with minors and inside institutions that cannot approve third-party data processing. Signing in with Google is optional and only syncs study progress.

Works where connectivity doesn't

Installed once, it runs with no connection at all. For learners in areas with intermittent or metered internet — which describes a large share of the intended audience — this is the difference between usable and theoretical.

What it is not

It is not a substitute for a teacher, it gives no live speaking assessment, and its writing feedback is model answers and checklists rather than marking. It is built for independent practice between lessons — which is where most learners lose ground.

Getting started

From zero to a plan in four steps

No sign-up, no card, no waiting. Open the link and begin.

1
Find your real level
A test drawn from 829 questions graded A1 to C2 gives you a level in minutes instead of a guess — with a certificate you can keep.
2
Get your daily plan
The app decides what to study today based on your level and your goal, and tracks your streak so the habit survives a bad week.
3
Practise all four skills
Reading, listening, writing and speaking, with instant marking that explains why an answer was wrong — in Arabic.
4
Measure and keep going
A statistics dashboard, a skills radar and a weekly report, plus spaced repetition that quietly returns whatever you are starting to lose.

Questions

Before you start

Is it really free? Where's the catch?

Completely free, and there is no catch. No subscription, no paid tier, no advertising, and no limit on how many lessons you can take. The project was built to serve Arabic-speaking learners, and everything described on this page is available from the moment you open it.

Do I need to create an account?

No, an account is optional. Open the link and start; your progress is stored on your own device. If you sign in with Google, your progress is saved to your account and follows you to any device, and you can delete it at any time.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes. Iksir English is an installable web app: after the first visit it is stored on your device and runs offline. On a phone, choose Add to Home Screen and it behaves as a standalone full-screen app.

I'm a complete beginner. Is this for me?

Yes. Content starts at A1 and runs to C2, and every explanation is in Arabic. More importantly, the lessons are organised around the errors Arabic speakers specifically make, which is usually the real reason progress stalls — not a shortage of vocabulary.

Is it enough to prepare for IELTS?

There is a full IELTS suite: a complete timed mock of all four sections, reading and listening banks in exam format with every real question type, a writing lab with model answers, a speaking bank, and a thirty-day intensive track.

Which devices does it run on?

Any device with a modern browser — Android, iPhone, Windows and macOS. The interface is Arabic, mobile-first, and includes a comfortable dark mode for night study.

Is the interface available in English?

Not yet. The app interface and all explanations are in Arabic by design, because explaining English grammar in English is precisely the obstacle Iksir English exists to remove. This page is in English so that teachers, researchers and institutions can evaluate the project.

Price

Everything, for nothing

forever, no account needed

All 822 lessons and every test
The complete IELTS suite and full mock
Certificates for placement and professional tracks
Offline use on unlimited devices
No advertising and no tracking

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English built for a mind thatthinks in Arabic.