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Yani teaches spoken Emirati Arabic, the dialect Emiratis use every day, to people who live in the UAE. Short daily sessions, built around the situations in your own life.

Not a word. You start with the phrases you'll use first, each with native audio and a spelling in familiar letters. Arabic script is always there, with a gentle path to reading it when you're ready.

Hear your first phrase and take a first lesson, then keep your progress with a code we email you. That starts 7 days of full access, and we don't ask for a card. When the week ends nothing is charged, and you decide whether to buy a pass.

A phone or computer with an up-to-date browser. Add Yani to your home screen and it opens like an app, and today's practice keeps working offline.

You choose 5 to 15 minutes a day. Each session mixes a quick review, a few new phrases and a short spoken roleplay.

Formal Arabic is for news and books, and nobody orders karak in it. Emiratis speak their own dialect, different again from Egyptian, Levantine or other Gulf Arabic. Speaking it shows real respect, and people notice.

Tell us where you'll use Emirati (the office, your neighbours, government offices, the majlis) and who you'll talk to. Your path puts those situations first, and you can change them at any time.

That's where the progress is, so most of each session is listening and speaking: hear it, shadow it, say it, then use it in a short roleplay. When you're somewhere quiet, there are listening exercises too.

Spaced repetition. Yani brings each phrase back just before you'd forget it, using FSRS, the open-source scheduler behind Anki. Hearing a phrase and saying it are tracked separately, so both stay sharp.

Emirati changes the ending of many phrases depending on whether you're speaking to a man, a woman or a group. Yani shows the forms side by side first, then mixes them in practice, so the right one comes naturally.

Every phrase is spelled the way Emiratis say it, in letters you already know, with the sounds English doesn't have gently highlighted. You can switch to chat-style spelling or Arabic script whenever you like.

The Free week first, then one pass. Monthly is AED 39. For the year, while founding seats last, Founding is AED 199 (normally AED 299); once they're gone, the year is Annual at AED 299.

No. A pass is paid once and never renews on its own. 3 days before yours ends, we'll send a reminder with a one-tap link, in case you'd like to keep going.

The year for our first 100 members: AED 199 instead of AED 299, and the same price every year after, as long as you renew within 30 days of your pass ending. When the seats are gone, the year is the Annual pass.

Yes. Ask within 14 days of buying a pass and we'll refund it in full. No need to give a reason.

Securely through Ziina, a UAE payments provider. Ziina handles your card details; we never see or store them. You'll get a receipt by email.

Prices are in UAE dirhams and include any VAT that applies.

In Emirati homes, the majlis is where people gather to talk. In Yani, it's your small group of friends, colleagues or neighbours, learning side by side with a shared weekly goal.

Create a Majlis in the app and share the invite link, on WhatsApp or anywhere else. Friends join with one tap.

Your display name, your karak card, your minutes practised and the XP you add to the weekly goal. Never your recordings, your answers or your email address.

Yes, at any time. Your own progress always stays with you.

Speech checks happen in your browser, on your device. Yani doesn't upload or store your recordings. Your browser's own speech recognition may be provided by Apple or Google, under their privacy terms.

Your email address, the choices you make for your path, your progress, and your pass history. Nothing more than Yani needs to work.

No, and we never will.

Send us a message from the contact page using the email on your account. We'll delete your account and your learning data within 30 days.

From native Emirati recordings, checked against research on how Emiratis actually write and speak. Every phrase is traced back to its source.

A phrase reaches your lessons once a native Emirati speaker has recorded it, or an Emirati reviewer has approved it. Until then it stays out, and that includes the forms for a woman or a group that no one has recorded yet.

Yes. The recordings in your lessons are native Emirati speakers. Where a phrase has no recording yet, an Emirati AI voice may read it, and only once Emirati reviewers have approved it. On our home page a few forms still waiting for review play in that AI voice, and they say so.

Tell us, please. Send a message about "A phrase or recording" and we'll check it with a native speaker.

A situation opens once it has enough phrases you can study, and requests help us decide which comes next. Tell us what you need.

No. Yani teaches the language your patients speak. For consent, diagnosis and anything clinical, follow your workplace's interpreter policy.

Most come from a medical language course the US Defense Language Institute recorded with native Emirati speakers. It's public domain, and every phrase is credited.

Many clinic phrases change for a woman or a group. For now your lessons use the form the native speaker recorded, usually the one for a man, and the other forms open as Emirati reviewers approve them.

Yes. When you start, choose “At the doctor” and “At the pharmacy”, and your path puts them first.