This Tool Helps You to Understand Al Jazeera Better

While media Arabic grammar is often straightforward, the rapid delivery of news and the absence of vowels in written articles pose significant challenges for students aiming to read quickly.

This article explains Al-Jazeera’s unique “listen to article” feature, a valuable tool that provided synchronized audio with highlighted Arabic news text, helping to improve reading speed and Arabic pronunciation.

Arabic news moderators often pronounce sentences like a machine gun. And when it comes to newspapers, most students simply need too much time to read articles – especially because they do not know how to pronounce the words, and thus falter.

That is also the reason why students are not so much into reading newspapers because it is more or less like a guessing game as the vowels are not written.

But there is help:

Al-Jazeera offers a great service which is called: listen to the article! There is an audio option on their website.

• The words are pronounced in a natural way (with correct vowels).
• It shows you the word which is currently pronounced (by highlighting it with a different color).
• You can download the audio file at the end to listen to it in one go.

The Al-Jazeera listening option

It is really easy but very useful:

STEP 1: Go to the Arabic site of Al-Jazeera – https://aljazeera.net

Notice the domain .net because .com usually directs you to the English site.

STEP 2: Click on any article.

STEP 3: Under the headline, you should now see a loudspeaker symbol:

STEP 4: Click on it.

STEP 5: You should now be able to listen to the text. The AI highlights the word that is currently pronounced.

Here is how it sounds (Video):

REMARK: This also works on your mobile. You don’t even have to use the app. Just use your browser and go to aljazeera.net

By the way: I have interviewed an employee of the company which develops the AI for text to speech – you can read it here. Furthermore, if you want to know the “real” and authentic pronunciation – try out this tool.