Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners 1st Edition

I have purchased many books to learn Arabic and this one is the best. Although it is more like a high school workbook it is fun and it works! It has english, written arabic, and phonetic arabic - all three are rarely in other books. The games are fun and instill the language further. I highly recommend this book and cannot wait to purchase the next level. Also, the Arabic writing is large enough so that it can be read easily, unlike many other books.

Now, I am speaking from the point-of-view of a person who has a native command of the Arabic language and tutors people in Arabic. I would strongly recommend you find someone to tutor you if you want to learn the language rather quickly and hopefully from someone who is good at both English and Arabic. At least someone who will get you through deciphering the alphabet. The book that says the 100 words in Arabic by the same authors would be a necessary companion to this book. If you don't get it, at least you will need a good book that explains the alphabet and if you do not pull something off the net and you will fine. This book is written rather well, has good pictures, captivates the interest of the reader, has a CD. I just would have liked if they had the alphabet in the beginning, but at least they have it in the back of the book if you look. So I would recommend this book if you want a quick introduction to useful Arabic for a Westerner going to an Arabic country and needing how to ask for directions, order food, ask about someone's family...

Best Book for the price and its instructional video helps a lot. I am writing and reading a lot faster that I thought I would.

It is a useful book to have for your collection of Arabic textbooks when you are a long-time self-paced student of Arabic language as I am.

This text is useful. It begins from the basics and proceeds at a realistically slow pace. The CD is very helpful for pronunciation. HOWEVER, one big drawback is the way the author introduces written Arabic script. Although she does not SYSTEMATICALLY introduce the script until near the END of the book, she uses the script from the very first lesson, where she blithely - overly optimistically - instructs the student to simply remember the overall SHAPE or appearance of words written in Arabic. I challenge anyone to be able to do this!!! Beyond a few words, that is. Unit exercises often present words in Arabic script only, with no Roman scipt trancription, so you really have to master reading the script to fully paricipate in the program. The solution is to jump ahead to the end of the book, and study the letters first - but you won't get much help with this - there are no graduated exercises. I do not find Arabic script "easy" (much harder than Cyrillic script, for example, although easier/faster to learn than Japanese's three concurrent scripts) and I crave more support than this book offers. (There is a companion book by same author and one other, for learning to write Arabic.)

The arabic "examples" are very teeny tiny and I felt they do not help you as much as it seems. This seems to be the second in a series they do not tell you what the first would be. It comes with a cd and I think what it does not tell you is you should use the CD and practice many times over and over with that first before even trying the work book.

very good learning tool my friend said these are better than what their taught with in their country

I have arabic for dummies and it is better, incl CD for audio. I am a visual learner, so I need to SEE how to say it. Following a CD in this book is not easy, if you can't see it too. I would NOT recommend this book for beginners.

El libro en sí está bien, en buen estado y sin nada escrito. Bien para iniciarse en la lengua árabe, con sencillos ejercicios y aprendizaje de palabras clave, así como adjetivos, etc. Pero como he dicho, el CD llegó roto por la razón que sea, algo que le resta dos estrellas. Sin embargo, el libro me costó 1,11 euros, por lo que el precio aún sin CD me parece muy bueno.

Very good

Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners (Book + Audio CD) (Read and Speak Languages for Beginners) I'm trying to get myself kick-started with Arabic and having real trouble... the script's such a problem. This book's helping me start to recognise the letters and learn some words and phrases, without bothering about writing. It's very basic level and good fun with exercises that really help you test what you've picked up. The most accessible book for an absolute beginner I've found. Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners (Book + Audio CD) (Read and Speak Languages for Beginners)

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