In an easy-to-use format, this new text book offers a convenient guide to grammar for any student of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the version of Arabic mostly commonly used in journalism, formal... More > writing, and literature. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a teacher of Arabic, Tarek Mahfouz explains the rules in straight-forward English, illustrating usage with examples throughout. The book covers all the rules of grammar and morphology that students require for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of Arabic. As a comprehensive guide, it is an ideal auxiliary, no matter what textbook the student is using.< Less
Learn to Read Arabic is a new method to master the Arabic alphabet, quickly and with a minimum amount of effort.
Instead of boring memorization, you're solving a series of puzzles. The puzzles are... More > set up in such a way that you'll immediately know when you're correct, and you'll feel success with every puzzle solved.
• No memorization required
• Extensive opportunities for practice
• Fun puzzles throughout
• Immediate feedback
Judith Meyer has successfully learned 10 foreign languages and 5 foreign writing systems so far. She works full-time as an e-learning course developer and consultant for several companies.< Less
In an easy-to-use format, this new text book offers a convenient guide to grammar for any student of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the version of Arabic mostly commonly used in journalism, formal... More > writing, and literature. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a teacher of Arabic, Tarek Mahfouz explains the rules in straight-forward English, illustrating usage with examples throughout. The book covers all the rules of grammar and morphology that students require for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of Arabic. As a comprehensive guide, it is an ideal auxiliary, no matter what textbook the student is using.< Less
In an easy-to-use format, this new text book offers a convenient guide to grammar for any student of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the version of Arabic mostly commonly used in journalism, formal... More > writing, and literature. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a teacher of Arabic, Tarek Mahfouz explains the rules in straight-forward English, illustrating usage with examples throughout. The book covers all the rules of grammar and morphology that students require for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of Arabic. As a comprehensive guide, it is an ideal auxiliary, no matter what textbook the student is using.< Less
Learn to Read Arabic is a new method to master the Arabic alphabet, quickly and with a minimum amount of effort.
Instead of boring memorization, you're solving a series of puzzles. The puzzles are... More > set up in such a way that you'll immediately know when you're correct, and you'll feel success with every puzzle solved.
• No memorization required
• Extensive opportunities for practice
• Fun puzzles throughout
• Immediate feedback
Judith Meyer has successfully learned 10 foreign languages and 5 foreign writing systems so far. She works as an e-learning course developer and consultant for several companies.< Less
This book will introduce you to Yemeni Arabic using the dialect of Aden and Sana'a. The aim of the book is to build your vocabulary and introduce you to common greetings and expressions. To this... More > purpose, it features full-length situational conversations pertaining to daily life in Yemen. This method was chosen in order for you to learn vocabulary and expressions in context. This book is suitable for those who have already studied Arabic to at least lower-intermediate level. You must be familiar with basic grammar and vocabulary, as well as with the Arabic alphabet. (If you study Arabic using the Al-Kitaab textbook, you should have finished studying Al-Kitaab. Part One.) Yemeni Arabic, particularly the dialect of Aden, presents relatively few difficulties to the Arabic student, as it is the closest out of all regional Arabic dialects to Modern Standard Arabic.< Less
In an easy-to-use format, this new text book offers a convenient guide to grammar for any student of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the version of Arabic mostly commonly used in journalism, formal... More > writing, and literature. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a teacher of Arabic, Tarek Mahfouz explains the rules in straight-forward English, illustrating usage with examples throughout. The book covers all the rules of grammar and morphology that students require for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of Arabic. As a comprehensive guide, it is an ideal auxiliary, no matter what textbook the student is using.< Less
Arabian Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and... More > medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Turkish, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.
Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle-Eastern folk tales. The tales vary widely: they include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems. Numerous stories depict Jinns, Ghouls, Apes,[5] sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally. The narrator's standards for what constitutes a cliffhanger seem broader than in modern literature. While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble.< Less
