Teach Yourself Arabic Complete Course 3rd Edition

by Jack Smart (Author), Frances Altorfer (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0071430173

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Talk like an Egyptian. Teach yourself Arabic!

With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of the Teach Yourself Language Courses at your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
Regular and irregular verb tables
Plenty of practice exercises and answers
Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
An exploration of the culture
And much more

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About the Author

Jack Smart has been teaching Arabic for 40 years .

Frances Altorfer is a modern language teacher .

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; 3rd edition (March 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071430172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071430173
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 1.05 x 7.8 inches

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Lexi

Useful book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2020

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The book itself is super useful. Easy to understand.

It came with everything and was undamaged but was mildly dirty. Good for price though

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D. Anderson

Wonderful foundation to learn Arabic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2008

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I had taken a six week intensive course in Iraqi Arabic in the military a few years ago, and ordered this with the intention of refreshing and maybe adding to what I knew. This course, like most of the "Teach Yourself" courses is wonderful. It works to provide a solid foundation before moving on to actual phrases. It's so difficult to really get all the sounds in Arabic correct and the audio CD helps immensely with this. It would be even better if they offered a video DVD supplement, but I'm sure that's in the works. Lessons are very well organized and really allows you to learn at your own pace.

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blondlostime

Written for British English speakers, but still useful for others

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2013

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This book is written for a British audience, so it may cause some trouble with pronunciation and understanding, unless you're very familiar with British English (as opposed to American English). Also, I don't feel like pronunciation is explained phonetically (the descriptions of the sounds are very informal and useless if you're used to using IPA). Otherwise this book has great review sections and each chapter builds on the previous one.

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C. Bakhos

very good course to learn arabic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2013

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I like the books that have CDs or DVDs and when they start to teach each letter, I recommend this book to start learning arabic.

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JK in NY

It's not what I hoped for

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2008

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It's far too difficult for a light approach - you really have to want to learn Arabic for more than just a vacation trip. My own fault, though, since I just assumed it would be more suitable for my needs.

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John muckles

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2016

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This is a very effective book, it shows the culture and has applicable scenarios

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Conrad H

Great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2012

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Great. I recommend it for language learners, especially Arabic learners. It arrived in excellent condition. I can't wait to get started.

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D H

Excellent conversational Arabic and a Reader Too

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2004

There are several negative reviews of this book which refer to an earlier edition. The 2003 edition is excellent. It does have English Transliteration to aid with pronunciation but tries to wean you from it quickly by giving you small sections of Arabic text without transliteration. These are great for learning to read and often they are also dialogues covered on the CD's. The book doesn't stop with learning to read signs and newspapers but is a full-fledged primary reader with excerpts from literature.

Make sure you get the CD set with the book. I had to return my first copy (actually fortunate, since that was the earlier edition) when I found the references to a CD that I did not have. There are many exercises which are intended for use with the CD's. There is a key to the exercises in the back.

I don't know how this book would be for a self-study if I didn't have cause to use the language daily. But, I find the conversational phrases are realistic and useful in my regular interaction with native Arabic speakers. Of course, it is a big advantage being partially immersed, but my progress was nonetheless slow and haphazard until I got this book. I had made no serious prior attempts to learn the script, I'm now reading excerpts from the Qur'an, after less than one month of work. I have used a number of learning resources and this is by far the best I have found for all-around knowledge of Arabic. I recommend a dictionary, however, as the glossary is tiny.

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