I'm glad Arabicpod101 is back. With three lessons a week to start with, one should get pretty good in six or twelve months from now. I understand that certain adjustments are needed technically on the site too. For example, the pdf not appearing correctly. Consider only what follows (Newbie Lesson S2 #1): Standard Arabic إز يّ كِّ ، هالة يا ع َل يَ ْك ُم الس َّلام :رولاند ك ُو يَ ِّسة أنا ، رولاند يا الس َّلام ع َل يَ ْك ُم و :هالة إز يَّ كَّ؟ إن ْت و ش ُك ْرا ،ً ت مَام ، لله الح مَ ْد :رولاند ؟ م َص رْ في م َب ْسوط تإن ْ :هالة ج ِدا ح ِل ْوة م َص رْ ، م َب ْسوط أنا أي ْوة، :رولاند ؟ الجام ْعة في ب ُك ْرة أشوف كَ ، ت مَام :هالة That's the way the pdf appears, both in Preview and Acrobat Reader (most recent versions on my Mac) and within Safari. It's not Arabic at all. It's Arabic separate letters in the normal order within each word, but all the words are in a jumbled order. Here, in what appears above, one has to start reading backward instead of from right to left as is normal in Arabic. The supplemental material Line-by-line transcript is ok as far as the Arabic script appears, though. رولاند: السـَّـلام عـَـلــَيـْـكـُـم يا هالة ، إزّيـِّك On my iPod touch, it's somewhat the same about the letters that are separated and not linked to one another as it should be normally in Arabic for the Application I bought from Innovative Language. But, at least, the word order is correct. Now, a few suggestions or expectations: In the Line-by-line transcript, each line is said separately. Very good feature. I would appreciate having a button to listen to all the dialogue non-stop after practicing it, as is the case for your Japanese site. For the vocabulary expansion, in addition to having the key word pronounced, it would be very useful to have the example sentence(s) pronounced as well. Also, what I think is difficult for a beginner (I don't consider myself a newbie any longer) is to try and follow along the Arabic script when the sentences are uttered at a normal pace. What makes it even a lot more complicated is when the name of the speaker starts each repartee and is too close to the text itself. By the time you adjust your eyesight to spotting the beginning of the next sentence, it's been said almost entirely. What would be a lot better in my humble opinion, would be to set apart the name of the speaker, leaving a space so it's obvious where the sentence starts. Since we are learners of the language, why not write the name of the speakers in those dialogs with our Roman letters. Then, there would not be any problem spotting readily the beginning of the next line of the dialogue. Should there be an additional feature, I would sometimes find useful to have an option for displaying the dialogs with the transcription and translation following immediately each line of a dialog. The way it is now is certainly very useful, but at times, one would like to be able to see the translation while reading the Arabic text at the same time a sentence is uttered without having to jog the elevator button back and forth. So, ideally, there would be options as to the way the material is displayed. I admit this could represent extra work for the webmaster, though. I'm also looking forward to reading and studying some supplementary material in the Learning Center (Grammar, History, etc.) For a year, it's been written: Coming soon... Finally, I don't know why it is so long to get to see the pdf once one has clicked on the link to see it within Safari. It seems to take forever to come to the point I have to use the downloaded file from iTunes instead, or one I have traced back in the Finder. That may sound like criticism, but I'm not trying to find fault with everything I see. I only want this site to get better and as good as it can be. I particularly appreciate being able to read and hear Egyptian along with the Moroccan dialect. In two years time, maybe there will be some Lebanese and Iraqi dialects as well. Thank you for starting this course again.