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Yallah Speak is an AI-powered app for learning spoken Arabic: real conversations in Modern Standard Arabic and more than ten real dialects, word-by-word pronunciation feedback, and a structured course from A1.
Yallah Speak teaches the Arabic people actually speak. While most apps stop at Modern Standard Arabic — the formal language of news and books — Yallah Speak lets learners choose between MSA and more than ten real dialects, from Moroccan to Egyptian to Gulf Arabic, and puts speaking at the center: AI role-plays and debates answer naturally in the chosen dialect, and pronunciation is rated word by word in real time. Founded in 2025 by Fouad El Ajouaoui and Zakaria N. — two founders raised in Germany with Moroccan roots who knew their family's Arabic only from the outside — the company is based in Qatar and serves 25,000+ learners in 40+ countries. The app is available on iOS and Android in eight interface languages.
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Almost every app teaches Modern Standard Arabic — a language nobody speaks at the kitchen table. That's like learning Latin to order coffee in Rome. Why language tech keeps flattening Arabic, and what a dialect-first approach changes.
Millions of second- and third-generation kids in Europe and the US understand their family's Arabic — but can't answer. Yallah Speak was built by two of them.
The hardest part of any language is speaking — in front of people. An AI partner that answers in dialect and scores pronunciation word by word makes speaking practice private, honest and affordable.
Many Muslims around the world read Arabic beautifully — and still can't hold a conversation in it. The quiet gap between the language of faith and the language of everyday life, and the learners closing it.
Arabic is the fifth most spoken language on earth, yet the big platforms treat it as an afterthought — one course, one register, no dialects. What it takes to build for 400 million speakers properly.
One language, ten worlds: Moroccan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Gulf, Sudanese. How an app maps the diversity of Arabic instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
Raised in Germany with Moroccan roots — both grew up hearing their family's Arabic from the outside. Available for interviews in English and German; quotes and photos on request.
A developer from Germany with Moroccan roots. Fouad leads development: he designs the app, builds the AI systems and curates the vocabulary in more than ten dialects — so you learn the Arabic his family actually speaks, not the textbook kind.
Also at home in Germany, also Moroccan roots — and the same experience: there was no tool for the Arabic of real life. Zakaria drives vision and strategy and holds the course while the plane grows.
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Style notes: the name is Yallah Speak — two words, both capitalized. يلّا means “let's go”; the name is the mission. Need app screenshots, device mockups or founder photos? One email and we'll send a fresh set within 24 hours.
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