Arabic is the language of a lot of countries like Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria , Libya,...more than 20 countries, so you will make benefit of learning it, in business, or just a hobby...
This is a website of a company that give you a free program to start Arabic, just type your e-mail and then you can download the program , there are also a lot of languages to be learnt but the link is directly adjusted to Arabic. the link is : http://www.byki.com/fls/free-arabic-software-download.html?l=arabic the program is called byki.
Byki program give you about 13 free lists, but you can download more free lists. a lot of free lists, with audio and text, it gives you also a virtual keyboard with arabic letters. Good luck
Second link is of a company called Rocket on the link http://www.rocketlanguages.com/arabic/premium/ this company give free material for a lot of languages too, but this link is directly adjusted to arabic too. just type your e-mail and they will send you 6 free lessons over 6 days, text lessons and audio lessons. Good luck again.
see you in the coming article of learning Arabic , these were some tips to start arabic, and feel free to contact me - on my blog www.mahmoud1987.blogspot.com -if you need more material for learning arabic,I will do my best to help you , Salam , Salam = bye , it is an arabic word...