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Answer Key To Al-Kitaab Fii Ta'allum Al-'Arabiyya 2nd Edition

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I personally liked the layout. This answer key gives the answers in a concise, organized manner. Please take note that this is different from a solutions manual which gives explainations of the answers.

The answer key is all in Arabic...I was hoping, because the text book for "beginning" Arabic is very confusing and is not very clear, that at least this Answer Key would translate everything into English. But it doesn't. The text book does give a vocabulary in each chapter but all Arabic words used in the chapter are not all in the vocabulary and are also not always in the Arabic-English glossary in the back of the book..so one has to look them up in an Arabic-English dictionary, of which I have several. Looking words up in Arabic dictionaries are not as straightforward as in an English dictionary unless you know the Arabic roots. In order to know the roots, it helps to know the structure of the words which you don't get in this book. Beginners should not have to be put through this or they will be frustrated. Not only that but the text book and this answer key to the text book assumes you know how to read Arabic. It does not teach you this. I know how to read Arabic and I have also gotten more than half way through Rosetta Stone Level 2 Arabic but I find this Al-Kitab text and answer key hard to follow or figure out. I also very much dislike the DVDs. Maha is cute but the program could have been put together a lot better (the GUI was difficult to work with). A lot of these Arabic to English language courses seem to forget that the people they are teaching don't know Arabic or can't read Arabic and it sure doesn't help when they don't constantly give specific instructions and course the path with English. I found a pretty good Arabic-English language course that can be downloaded for free...public domain...there is a 3 volume course in both Arabic and English and audio Arabic and English translations that follow the printed course material. You only have to endure, if that is a problem, a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) of proselytizing into Islam. But the guy who reads the Arabic and English translations is very clear and easy to understand. Do a search on the Arabic Medina Books at the archive.org website and be prepared for huge downloads. You can also go to the [...] site to download yet another guy on the Medina Books audio but I found him a little harder to understand. There is also a huge library of videos on the Medina Books course but those are more advanced and expect you to have gone through the 3 volume course as a prerequisite.

This book is very necessary to help you understand when you have missed an answer; it helps you get back on track.

These answers are great to use while self teaching yourself the material from al-kitaab. The only problem is that not all of the problem sets are answered.

This is a good supplement for the text and definitely helps in learning Arabic.

The book was definitely useful for my class, but it does not have ALL the answers, just some for each chapter. However, it was good enough for me.

Item arrived in excellent condition. It also arrived one day before it was due to come. I had an old book for which I needed the answer key, an older edition than the current one. So I was very happy to find this. Price was also very cheap so I overpaid on the shipping. Still item arrived even faster than expected. And nice packaging also!

Arrived fast as expected but book is smaller than expected and does not provide any explanations to answers, but I guess that's ok

If you have to use Al-Kitaab for your Arabic class, which you likely will, then this is a worthy supplement. Al-Kitaab has many faults, which include vocabulary being taught in an illogical manner as well as nonsensical practice exercises, yet this answer key can help dull the negatives of Al-Kitaab. Beware that this is a very straightforward answer key, and it is missing some exercises which you will wish were present, yet this is a good tool to check your work as well as to give you a little push in the right direction should a practice exercise make little sense to you.

Wish I had known this was around before I was over half done with the actual book. Has selected answers. I could have used a little more explanation, but it was nice to be able to double check the answers.