Arabic Now! V9.0

by Transparent Language

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006LSWP
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 19, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,115 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #15 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Arabic
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

ArabicNow! 9 Deluxe takes you from beginner to confident Arabic speaker in no time. Five exciting language learning areas feature grammar tutorials, interactive learning, progress tracking from your desktop, and conversation practice with native Arabic speakers. ArabicNow!'s stimulating multimedia environment adds enhanced large-format video and real-life video content that lets you experience people interacting in Arabic, while integrated speech tools record and play back your own voice.

Learn at your own pace and build a solid foundation with ArabicNow! 9 Deluxe's flexible language-study format. The DVD-box edition includes six titles: The Most Common Words in Arabic, Survival Phrases for Arabic, Unified Arab Market Still a Dream, Dialogues with Naguib Mafouz, Morocco: A Tale of Two Cities, and Transliterated Survival Phrases for Arabic. Learn more than 10,000 words, build your language skills with interactive grammar exercises and quizzes, cover hundreds of survival phrases, do crosswords in Arabic, play fun games, and much more. ArabicNow! also adds GlobalWriter98--an easy-to-use translation program that helps you write in more than 100 languages. Plus, access to online testing at Transparent Language's Web site extends the learning, making this comprehensive Arabic language course fast, fun, and highly effective.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learned Arabic from a Computer, May 30, 2003

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Jeff Langley (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arabic Now! V9.0 (CD-ROM)

I was able to learn Arabic with this program on my own time. Being a businessmen who travels to the Middle East quite often, learning to speak Arabic was a useful skill. From the start I was able to establish the basics and then move on to more difficult aspects. Arabic Now is a very interactive method to learning Arabic. I was able to have practice conversations which improved my speaking skills drastically. This program features pronunciation tests/meters that allow you to see if you are pronuncing the words right. The games are good practice and really add to the learning experience. I really liked this program and think it works well if you are looking to learn Arabic.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is good, June 12, 2003

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Paul Salvo (Newark, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arabic Now! V9.0 (CD-ROM)

This is a good product for language learning. I used Arabic Now as a supplement for an Arabic class but ended up learning more with the software than in class. It has all the content to either start as a beginner or at more advanced levels but either way it has a lot to offer. The list of features is huge with such things as a Grammar Tutorial, Pronunciation Analysis, tons of games, conversation practice, useful phrases, and too much more to list. I recomend Arabic Now because it worked for me and is very well done.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Immersion Arabic!, April 22, 2005

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Silver Kadesh (Somewhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arabic Now! V9.0 (CD-ROM)

I just received this item in the mail recently and already I'm impressed. However, I would like to offer a couple of warnings to beginner Arabic learners:

1. First, do NOT buy this AND the "LINGUAPHONE Arabic InAction V2" CD-ROM because they are the same product. The only difference between the two is that "Learn Arabic Now" has two additional catagories/lessons a few more games, and 5,000 additional Arabic words that can be learned. "Linguaphone V2" seems to be the condensed/abridged version of "Learn Arabic Now" because the graphics and program set-up are identical.

2. Purchase Nicholas Awde's "THE ARABIC ALPHABET: How to Read & Write It" and study it before engaging in this program. Though good, "Learn Arabic Now" does not give lessons on Arabic script and stroke order. The alphabet is briefly explained in a pop-up, but this is a general overview that only someone who has studied the Arabic alphabet would be able to relate to.

3. Also, don't be intimidated by the program. It is constructed to give an "instant immersion" effect. This is good, but I find it most effective to spend one week on 1 or 2 sentences of new Arabic vocabulary before moving on to new lessons.

4. Finally, if I were not already listening to Pimsleur's "Instant Conversion" CDs (the one on the Barnes & Noble site has 10 CDs, unlike Amazon's version which just has 8), I would be totally overwhelmed by "Learn Arabic Now". However, since "Instant Conversation" has already prepped me, almost everything in "Learn Arabic Now" is a reinforcement of previously learned vocubalary.