A BASIC COURSE IN IRAQI ARABIC with MP3 Audio Files (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) (Arabic Edition) Book & MP3 CD Edition

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A comprehensive introduction to Iraqi Arabic for beginners (with Iraqi-English and English-Iraqi glossaries) this is the language spoken by Muslim Baghdad residents, transcribed and not in Arabic script. It does not assume prior knowledge of Arabic. A Basic Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files contains ten chapters of phonology to explain the sounds, and thirty more covering grammar and vocabulary. The phonology chapters all contain extensive drills. The grammar chapters start with a dialogue or brief narrative, then explain new vocabulary and points of grammar, and conclude with drills. The book is usefully enhanced with a bound-in CD with audio MP3 files to accompany the text and drills.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Georgetown University Press; Book & MP3 CD edition (March 24, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ Arabic
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1589010116
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1589010116
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.91 x 8.96 inches

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Richard

An outstanding learning resource.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2004

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Ten chapters, 77 pages, just on the phonology of the Iraqi dialect! The author is very gifted at explaining in exquisite detail how each consonant, vowel and diphthong is to be produced, and strangely enough he actually made this subject interesting and comprehensible, something no one else has done in my lifetime. No highbrow "linguist only" babble, but all of that detail in a pleasant straight forward style. A CD with 665 Megs of MP3 files covers the entire text. The grammar notes on each new pattern are extensive. All in all, this course seems far superior to others I have bought. No introduction to the Arabic script in this text.

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Daniel Garcia

Good Product

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2012

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This book and the MP3 files helped me out a lot on my first deployment to Iraq. Good to just through in your iPOD and read along in the book provided.

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Gosha

A BASIC COURSE IN IRAQI ARABIC with MP3 Audio Files

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2015

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Purchased this for a friend who wanted to learn Arabic since he was being stationed in Iraq and wanted to supplement what the military taught him. He liked the book/CDs as a constant refresher when speaking to the local non-English speaking population and shares these with fellow soldiers.

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Claude D. Lamoreux

Very thorough

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2013

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It took me three months to get through the 10 chapters on pronunciation. Don't breeze through them; it will pay off. Our Iraqi interpreters say that my pronunciation is very good, especially for an American. The rest of the lessons are a good mix of dialog and grammar drills.

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Ldcarson

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2015

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OK, but be careful of dialect.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2017

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I found this book incredibly difficult to understand. It was written in the 1960's and it just doesn't use a conversational style to get the message across. It takes an incredibly archaic approach. Not happy with my purchase and will have to look for something else.

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the Stone Lion

Excellent foreign language materials

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2007

This is an absolutely wonderful text and audio files. I have learned so much about Iraqi Arabic from these materials. The main thing is the excellent presentation of verb forms so that the learner becomes completely familiar with both perfect and imperfect verb forms. I have seen so many Arabic language books and materials where the imperfect "tense" (essentially the present tense) is "shied away from" (for some unknown reason,) or as if the imperfect tense were "too difficult" for the beginning learner. Here, the author is completely upfront about it, and one learns these forms right away. This is exactly what is needed! I gave up on "Modern Standard Arabic" because the authors in all the books on the subject that I read refused to discuss the imperfect tense!

Other positive aspects of these materials are: the audio files are extremely professional, and most, if not all of the exercises are not only interesting, but very useful for the learner. I originally began my study of Iraqi Arabic just to learn enough to satisfy my curiosity about the language, but I have found that once into the materials, I could not stop learning! I have been a lifelong foreign language learner, and these are some of the best language materials I have ever encountered for ANY language.

I like to write out the dialogues and exercises on big sheets of paper to help reinforce my learning, and I found the romanized Arabic system that the author uses to be excellent. There are only some slight variations in the script that I use. For example, instead of the author's more "linguistic" use of "x" for the gutteral sound, I always transpose this into "kh" which to me is a better representation of the sound. But aside from certain minor variations that I prefer, the romanization is a great asset to helping the learner learn the aural-oral aspects of the language without being encumbered by the Arabic writing system at the beginning. I feel the writing system, because it is basically phonetic, can be learned later, or separately, if need be. But for the learner, studying the language at the beginning, in particular, in a familiar orthography ensures faster progress.

I highly recommend Iraqi, in general, as a dialect choice for Arabic, and to a great extent, I owe that to these great materials.

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perekladach

Rapping with the shoe thrower

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2009

OK, so you're one of the 200 million or so Americans who want to meet the Iraqi shoe thrower- to shake his hand and take him out to lunch. What is available in the way of materials for learning to speak Iraqi Arabic?

This book is an outstanding contribution to a very limited and underserved area of Arabic dialectology. Although it may seem to take forever to get through the introductory sections on pronunciation, they are worth the time and effort required. From there the lessons move on with very thorough treatment of grammar and particularly rigorous treatment of the Iraqi verb. There are some mutations that take place in Iraqi Arabic that affect the basic verbal paradigm (particularly in the imperfect tense), but the many drills are excellent and persistence does pay off. A buyer of this book should be advised that in this book, which dates from the 1960's era of language tutelage, "drill" means exactly that- there is a lot of repetition. My one quibble (a small one) is that the book could use some translation exercises- but of course there is nothing to stop a learner from trying to do some of this on their own. This course provides a first-rate foundation. The MP3's are also fine- and a serious student will practice with them on a daily basis.

Wallace Erwin, by the way, was one of the real pioneers of Arabic education- he was a prominent contributor to 'the Big Orange Book', which was the leading (and almost the only) resourse for Standard Arabic for a generation or more.

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Juan

Buen libro

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on January 27, 2018

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Es un libro que merece la pena. Sin embargo, no está escrito con letras árabes, sino con transcripción con alfabeto latino.

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