Finally there is an App that a student of the Arabic Language can use in conjunction with an instructor, or independently. Libera : Parallel Text Reader is an outstanding App, that allows a student to listen to the story of Ali Baba in Arabic, read by a native speaker. The App is simply remarkable. I would highly recommend it to anyone who's serious about learning the Arabic Language. Five stars + Five stars . It's outstanding !!!

Love the ability to slow the speed down to where I can ACTUALLY follow along … also, the change from male to female voice keeps the sound from getting boring … excellent language learning help.

Wonderful well rounded app. Their customer support is up in the heavens too.

This is the perfect app for anyone studying Arabic. It gives you the Arabic text side by side with the English translation (which you can hide if you want), and will even read the Arabic out loud so you can hear exactly how the words are pronounced. The best part, though, is that you can click on any word and get the definition and all of the grammatical info. The app is also easy to use and very attractive, design-wise. My only quibble is that I'm not a big fan of the vowelling scheme they use. They vowel everything (and I mean *everything*!), which seems cluttered and unnecessary to me. (Do we really need to know that there's a fat-ha before a taa marbouta?) But I don't know, maybe some people like that. It lets you turn off all vowelling — maybe add an option for minimal/necessary vowelling only?) But that little complaint doesn't detract from my overall enjoyment of the app. I've already worked my way through Ali Baba and I'm hoping they offer some more texts for it soon!