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| Tanizaki Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4801 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese | Message 41 of 70 04 October 2011 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you. At this point, I am vacillating between the French Assimil: http://www.assimil.com/descriptionProduitDetail.do?paramIdPr oduit=2714¶mIdMethode=2801 and Ahlan wa Sahlan http://www.amazon.com/Ahlan-Sahlan-Functional-Standard-Begin ners/dp/0300058543 I am leaning towards Assimil as it geared towards individual learning while a regular textbook may not be. (my French reading is decent enough that I think I could use the French Assimil without much difficulty) Any thoughts? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5321 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 42 of 70 04 October 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with either book. You might want to ask this question in this related thread. Good luck with your studies!
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| biki2 Diglot Groupie United States vatoweb.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7023 days ago 57 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Arabic (Written), Catalan, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 43 of 70 07 October 2011 at 11:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know anything about this book, but it was just released and so far has gotten good reviews on Amazon:
Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tanizaki Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4801 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese | Message 44 of 70 10 October 2011 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Does anyone know anything about this book? I have Googled but given its age, there is not much out there. I am considering this as a possible text, but am also leaning towards Living Language's Ultimate Arabic. Any thoughts? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 45 of 70 25 October 2011 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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It took me awhile to find it ... I knew I had this down somewhere!
TID=29105&PN=2&TPN=2">FSI Audio for Arabic I don't know what happened to the al3arabiya site, which is too bad, I had found a lot of good stuff on there. The direct links to the downloads, though, still seem to work. ************************* I finished Lesson 10 this weekend. It was easy without the audio! But it is getting seriously dull. There are only so many versions of "The meeting of the president in Baghdad was successful" that I can stay awake through. I was also starting to feel that I was going to far out on a limb with my own pronunciation quirks, and needed something more speaking based to balance out the writing. And so I decided that I would give Assimil L'arabe an honest shot. And here's the funny thing: the tapes aren't that bad when you are actively trying to read along and then repeat the phrases. Just listening to them passively is still painful. But, and I'm saying this reluctantly, and might rescind this at any time: I do think they might be useful for where I'm at now. I need something more than the dry dry lessons of FSI. So my new plan is to alternate weeks between Assimil and FSI, with some Arabic 101 podcasts thrown in so that I can listen to a pleasant accent to balance them out, and to remind me that Arabic can sound very elegant with the right accent! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| biki2 Diglot Groupie United States vatoweb.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7023 days ago 57 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Arabic (Written), Catalan, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 46 of 70 27 October 2011 at 9:36am | IP Logged | ||
Is this the site you're referring to? al3arabiya.blogspot.com Edited by biki2 on 27 October 2011 at 10:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 47 of 70 27 October 2011 at 10:14am | IP Logged | ||
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that is the link, though with a new address. Thanks!
And I seem to have posted this in the wrong discussion! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Corraleno Newbie United States Joined 4666 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek | Message 48 of 70 17 February 2012 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
You can see a full table of contents and a pretty extensive (62 pages) sample of Arabic for Life here: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001413 13 I'm also very interested in any feedback on this book, or on Wightwick & Gafar's Mastering Arabic. The local university uses Mastering Arabic Volume 1 for Arabic 101 & 102, and Volume 2 for 201 & 202. Edited by Corraleno on 17 February 2012 at 7:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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