User talk:Arabacademy

Up until the end of the 20th century, it was virtually impossible to find a place to learn Arabic as a Foreign Language in many parts of the world. With the advent of the internet, new types of learning emerged. It became possible to learn ONLINE. The problem was that Arabic script was not displayed on the internet in the late 90's. That made is quite complicated to create web sites in Arabic, especially teaching sites. Arab Academy (http://www.arabacademy.com ) started its first online Arabic program in 1999. It had to create special fonts (in graphics format) with a tool that enabled letters to be displayed in Arabic even though those letters were really tiny pictures. It was complicated but Arab Academy started this way. It developed the first learning management system in the Arab world. When it was launched in 1999, it got 2000 applicants in one week. That was how thirsty people were for a new medium to learn a language.