Mitchd42 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3900 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish
| Message 1 of 6 01 April 2014 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
I am just about to start learning Arabic and am thinking about about buying Mastering
Arabic 1 by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar for MSA, but am not sure what to get for
learning Iraqi Arabic which I want to learn because there's a lot of people who speak
that dialect or are at least from Iraq living around me and because it's supposedly
easier than MSA. So is Mastering Arabic a good book for learning MSA and what do you
guys think about Iraqi dialect learning material?
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linguaholic_ch Triglot Groupie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5053 days ago 69 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, Hindi, Bengali Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, French
| Message 2 of 6 03 April 2014 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
For Iraqi Arabic ,you can search for the free DLI courses in the net. There is a particular course there for this dialect.
https://jlu.wbtrain.com/sumtotal/language/DLI%20basic%20cour ses/
Mastering Arabic seems to be a good book. Many members are using it. Be sure to search for reviews in Amazon. Many forum members are using it . So search for the thread "Arabic Study Group".
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day1 Groupie Latvia Joined 3897 days ago 93 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English
| Message 3 of 6 03 April 2014 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
Modern Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Files, Second Edition: Modern Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Files: A Textbook (Arabic Edition) [Paperback]
Yasin M. Alkalesi (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Amazon recommends this one. Sounds good to me, too.
But what about Pimsleur? I believe there's a new Pimsleur for MSA specifically, and their eastern Arabic course should be kinda OK for Iraqui as well (though I don't know really). Having these two extremely similar courses side by side could help to see both dialects in contrast.
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4656 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 4 of 6 04 April 2014 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
Anything in particular for Yemeni Arabic?
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5021 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 5 of 6 04 April 2014 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
A couple of us have formed a study group for Arabic (, the one linguaholic_ch mentioned). We're all beginners. We're all using different books. One of us is even using the book you've mentioned.
You're welcome to join us. :-)
Best of luck with Arabic!
Edited by napoleon on 04 April 2014 at 8:43pm
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5325 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 6 of 6 04 April 2014 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
Zireael wrote:
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Cetacea studied Arabic in Yemen. She rarely visits the forum these days, but if you pm her, she can probably recommend some books and other teaching materials to you.
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