With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow Teach Yourself Arabic at your own pace or use it as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is professionally designed for self-guided study, making it one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Teach Yourself Arabic includes an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.
Prepared by experts in Arabic, the course begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
Great book for beginners This book takes you step by step to demystify the Arabic language. I thought the script would be hard to learn, but it's actually not that hard. I enjoy using the book very much.
Wonderful foundation to learn Arabic I had taken a six week intensive course in Iraqi Arabic in the military a few years ago, and ordered this with the intention of refreshing and maybe adding to what I knew. This course, like most of the "Teach Yourself" courses is wonderful. It works to provide a solid foundation before moving on to actual phrases. It's so difficult to really get all the sounds in Arabic correct and the audio CD helps immensely with this. It would be even better if they offered a video DVD supplement, but I'm sure that's in the works. Lessons are very well organized and really allows you to learn at your own pace.
It's not what I hoped for It's far too difficult for a light approach - you really have to want to learn Arabic for more than just a vacation trip. My own fault, though, since I just assumed it would be more suitable for my needs.
Could use some improvement I am working my way through this book very thoroughly, I am on chapter 8 at the moment, and here is what I think about it. The first thing that really desperately needs improvement is they give you vocabulary words, but they do not have audio to match each vocabulary word, so unless you want to go back and find each place were every word occurs in the dialogue, you have to rely on the roman type sound-alike pronunciation that they list near the actual arabic type. Are they to cheap to pay someone who speaks Arabic well to pronounce each vocabulary word? By the way I concur with an earlier reviewer, in that this is not the book you want to start with . . . . start out with a book that explains the Arabic alphabet and shows you how to write in Arabic. On the positive side, they DO use Arabic script, when there are a lot of courses out there that use roman script to try to teach Arabic, and I ask, what good is that? . . . If you are going to study Arabic, why would you not want to learn to READ it too?
The stories from the Arabian Nights are great, I would love to see them expanded upon in some later edition.
Given what I have seen out there in Arabic courses, I rate this at four stars . . . Transparent Language does better if you ask me, and if I use my imagination, there is a LOT of room for improvement in many of the Arabic courses out there. If there were more competent Arabic courses out there though, I would be rating this a three, due to the forementioned issues with this 2003 version.
LEARNING HOW TO SPEAK, READ AND SPEAK ARABIC AT EASE Hi
Being a non arabic speaking fellow, i sincerely found the book to be a companion in learning how to read, write and even speak arabic
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