Customer Reviews

Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic

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I have lived in Cairo for 3 years now and my husband and I have both used this software extensively. Where most language learning books simply transliterate words phonetically, this software actually lets you HEAR the words spoken by an Egyptian as you see them on the screen (written in Arabic, in English transliteration, and the English equivalent). The words are categorized and you can listen to each word as many times as you like. It even has a function where you can record yourself saying the word and compare it to the Egyptian's voice (it shows the wavelength pattern of the words, too). As a housewife, I have appreciated the ability to print out vocab sheets as needed for study. My husband used this software and the others (there are some for Modern Standard Arabic, too) almost daily in his first years of intensive study. We HIGHLY recommend this for people of all levels who want to learn Egyptian Arabic.

I have heard from a person I know inside the company that produced this that version 3.0 will be Mac OS X compatible, as well as Windows.

This is the best software I have used for Egyptian Arabic - it's not as big as some of the others, but it is easy to use and really works my pronunciation and vocab. It gives all kinds of options for building your own lists of words, and the audio recordings are nice and clear.

This product does not support all the operating systems that it puports.
This is a copy of the email I recieved from the company.
Hello,

Verb Clinic is not actually supported on Windows 98. We have had some
reports of it working, but are not able to provide support for it,
unfortunately.

Thanks,

NAdine

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Nadine Mohamed
Technical Support
Kairos Information Technology
Cairo, Egypt
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Tech support like that is not worth a hill of beans. If Verb Clinic will not install I am sure this product will not install so would not recommend this product as they are using their customers as beta-Testers.

The program is excellent for learning pronunciation, good for grammar rules, but confusing with its written English version of Arabic grammar

This was the third product I bought from AUC Press. Learning arabic on your own is a daunting task, but the help from the AUC MSA Vocab Clinic and Verb Clinic was immense, so when I needed to "get colloquial" it was natural to try Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic.

In short: "It's good!".

I am studying colloquial Egyptian Arabic now with private tutors In Cairo online. So far 95 percent of the words I have looked up on the Egyptian Arabic Vocab Clinic are not included. Arabic script cannot be used to specific searches either.
I do not like the product so far.

Robert Leifels

I bought this software thinking it would run on my Mac - it doesn't. So I have no opinion of it's effectiveness or worth as I have not been able to run it. The Amazon ad does not indicate anywhere that the software is Windows only. You have to go online and dig into their site ([...]) to find out. Needless to say I am going to try to get my money refunded from Amazon. I just wanted to warn others that the software will not run on a Mac.