Sionis Newbie United States Joined 4900 days ago 33 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Romanian
| Message 25 of 29 29 October 2011 at 7:06am | IP Logged |
Thank you all for the help and material recommendations.
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WH2010 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5172 days ago 13 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 26 of 29 30 October 2011 at 12:37am | IP Logged |
Sionis wrote:
Also, are there any good websites that goes into detail about the history
of the Arabic language, and the differences between the Arabic dialects as well as their
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Get Modern Arabic by Clive Holes. Best description of Arabic I've read.
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Sionis Newbie United States Joined 4900 days ago 33 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Romanian
| Message 27 of 29 08 November 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
Would any of the Arabic speakers recommend Arabic: An Essential Grammar by Faruk Abu-Chacra? I got some money together and I want to start buying some supplies.
The ones I'm defiantly going to get are:
Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar
Mastering Arabic by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar
Let's Talk Arabic by Dr. Adam
Modern Arabic by Clive Holes
I saw that someone on here uploaded the DLI MSA Arabic for download.
Also, I think I'm going to pursue MSA with Levantine being the dialect I study down the road when I get a base in the script as well as the MSA language.
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liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 28 of 29 08 November 2011 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
Sionis wrote:
Would any of the Arabic speakers recommend Arabic: An Essential Grammar by Faruk Abu-Chacra? I got
some money together and I want to start buying some supplies.
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I think for the money, Modern Literary Arabic can't be beat ($5-$8 used on Amazon) ... except maybe by All the Arabic You Never
Learned the First Time (free!) Heck, get both!
Best of luck with your Arabic studies. It is an easy language to get hooked on!
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5832 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 29 of 29 08 November 2011 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
Sionis wrote:
Would any of the Arabic speakers recommend Arabic: An Essential Grammar by Faruk Abu-Chacra? I got some money together and I want to start buying some supplies.
The ones I'm defiantly going to get are:
Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar
Mastering Arabic by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar
Let's Talk Arabic by Dr. Adam
Modern Arabic by Clive Holes
I saw that someone on here uploaded the DLI MSA Arabic for download.
Also, I think I'm going to pursue MSA with Levantine being the dialect I study down the road when I get a base in the script as well as the MSA language. |
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If you're going to buy Mastering Arabic, then I would recommend you buy the accompanying books, Mastering Arabic 1 Activity book and Mastering Arabic grammar. They complement Mastering Arabic really well. And when you've finished Mastering Arabic, there is Mastering Arabic 2!
Edited by stelingo on 08 November 2011 at 8:41pm
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