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Learn Arabic--no passport required!
No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize--ever! You will go from the basics to proficiency in no time with this complete course. Includes eight 60-minute audio CDs.
Jane Wightwick is an experienced teacher of Arabic and author and publisher of Arabic-teaching materials.
Mahmoud Gaafar worked for the United Nations and Radio Cairo and now authors print, radio and TV resources for the Arab world.
Michel Thomas was head of the Michel Thomas Language Centers and taught languages for over fifty years, primarily in New York, Beverly Hills, and London. Over a period of twenty-five years he developed a unique and revolutionary learning system that made him the world's leading language teacher. He has taught celebrities, diplomats, dignitaries, academics, and business executives.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very smart and efficient as an introduction to Arabi.,
By Jasper Spaulding (France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Speak Arabic For Beginners—The Michel Thomas Method™ (8-CD Beginner's Program) (Michel Thomas Series) (Audio CD)
I already posted my review of the Foundation course.http://shrinkify.com/eo3 I see this "advanced course" more as a complement to the Foundation course than as an "advanced" course. When you finish this course you are unlikely to understand conversations, but you can build you own sentences with a limited vocabulary, and you have (painlessly) acquired the essentials of grammar. More importantly you feel confident that you actually can envision speaking Arabic. Well, the Egyptian dialect, which is widely understood. Grammar is made simple and absorbed. The mechanisms of the language are simply explained and internalised. I wish I had used this program before I used Pimsleur Eastern Arabic, i would have better benefited from Pimsleur's 2 levels. Although Pimsleur very efficiently gives you more (yet limited) vocabulary and what you need to be an efficient traveller, its quite hard at the beginning. The dialect differences are obvious and not important. Some words differ , pronunciation differs, but it's easy to deal with the differences, similarities are stronger than the differences. After these Foundation ad introductory courses, I went through Pimsleur Eastern Arabic very fastly a second time. And my feeling is that I was ready to learn more: more vocabulary and more verb tenses. Which I did as you'll see. In brief, Pimsleur taught me lots of useful sentences and basic vocabulary, but it was not that simple (and it's awfully expensive). Michel Thomas / Wightwick / Gaafar give the structural understanding of the language and this dramatically improved my abilities to build new, never heard before sentences. It is quite likely that the next final "vocabulary" level will be very useful. The course , it should be stressed, should be used as they tell, in a laid back manner: relax and let it flow in and out (I mean you are goind to produce sentences that will easily flow out). Don't strain and don't try to remember. You're not at school , you are learning to speak a new weird mysterious language for real ! With very few CDs (8 + 4) that I essentially used while running , or driving (which is not the best usage of the CDs but the best usage of my available time) I deem the results remarkable. Then one has to use other materials to reach a conversational level. After I tried some other Eastern Arabic and Egyptian arabic material which did not eally suit me well, I eventually bought the Linguaphone complete Arabic course. This (Linguaphone) is a very thorough course with 10 dense CDs exclusively in Arabic. There are lost of new words, as in the Assimil methods(by the way I tried the Assimil Arabic for French speakers, it's audiotrack sounds nothing like Arabic and is ridiculously slow. An Arabic friend judged the Arabic used ridiculous pronounced. And I'm a huge fan of Assimil that I used for 4 other languages I can now speak quite well). Linguaphone is not as rewarding as Pimsleur and Michel thomas /Wightwick/ Gaafar. I would not have been able to use it, had I not had an earlier introduction that allows me to progress. Of course , as this is classic Arabic , modernised, it's different, and more complicated. Still my previous introduction to Syrian / Eastern arabic (Pimsleur) and to Egyptian (with nicely taught grammar) now proves invaluable to make the best use of this very rich Linguaphone course whih I think must be very frustrating for a complete beginner. Take home message: if you want to learn Arabic, this course (Michel Thomas foundation and advanced) is the perfect introcuctory course to a widely understood Arabic dialect. I don't know were the "vocabulary " course will take us, but even without it , it's easy to improve one's abilities after Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar have lead us to build new sentences , understanding the basics of this strange language's grammar, painlessly and almost unknowingly. I'd recommend this course as the first one if you want to learn Arabic. Otherwise, the other courses may disgust and deter you. With this one as a starter, you'll magnify your further learnings. J.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better Than Anything Else,
This review is from: Speak Arabic For Beginners—The Michel Thomas Method™ (8-CD Beginner's Program) (Michel Thomas Series) (Audio CD)
I've tried a few Arabic language learning products. From audio courses - to software such as Rosetta stone (V3). It was very frustrating, with one audio course I couldn't even remember 2-3 words confidentially. Then I heard of the Michel Thomas Method, and decided to give it a try. I went for a one hour bike ride, and by the time I got back I was amazed by what I had RETAINED. The feeling of actually holding onto the new information was a great feeling. Highly recommend this course.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Learning Arabic,
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This review is from: Speak Arabic For Beginners—The Michel Thomas Method™ (8-CD Beginner's Program) (Michel Thomas Series) (Audio CD)
I am very impressed with this product. If you want to converse in Arabic and have the self-discipline to work on your own, this may be exactly what you are looking for. You will be one of three students learning the language. The other two students, a man and a woman, learn as you learn, stumble as you stumble, and succeed with you. They are clearly not actors. The structure of the course is simple: there are two teachers, an English woman fluent in Arabic, and an Arabic man fluent in English. The teachers introduce concepts then ask the students questions in the form "How would you say?" The students answer and the teachers correct their syntax and pronunciation. The teachers build the language, piece by piece, much as one would build a complex structure out of Lego blocks. The students become comfortable with handling each piece and with how the pieces fit together to form bigger pieces. I very soon found myself talking to myself in Arabic as I was walking to work. The course is very good value. At ten times the price it would still be a bargain.
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