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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6319 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 1 of 8 25 November 2009 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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I have a question to anyone who owns the 1977 version of the Linguaphone Arabic course, namely the one Professor Arguelles recommended. I came across a version for sale, but the packaging looks quite different from the one that was shown in his video. My books are brown, like the Chinese course and have no colour photographs. Is this still the same course?
The first flew lines of Chapter 1 of my course are as follows: At the Airport Hassan Murad I'm Hassan Murad. I'm a teacher of Arabic. I'm from Cairo. Cairo is in Egypt. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5814 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 8 25 November 2009 at 8:54am | IP Logged |
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That's the same course as the one they sell today. However, it may also be the same course the Professor recommended. Before I bought it, I contacted Linguaphone to find out when they last changed the course content, and they made it sound like the course was the same as the 1977 one, but I don't remember their exact answer.
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6529 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 3 of 8 03 December 2009 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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Same course. Later versions come with 9 or 10 cassettes, these have recorded drills that may be useful. In means lisening to the lesson texts continuously is not possible however, unless you edit/digitalize.
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| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5814 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 4 of 8 03 December 2009 at 6:46pm | IP Logged |
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Not necessarily true. On my CD version, the drills are on separate tracks, so you can just skip right over them.
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6319 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 5 of 8 19 July 2010 at 11:34am | IP Logged |
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I was wondering if any proficient reader of Arabic can tell me whether the font used in my version of this course is actually at all legibile or not. It seems like it would be almost impossible to read it's so small, but I haven't studied this language yet and so can't tell for sure.
Could anyone confirm this for me please? 
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| Cetacea Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States booh.com Joined 5327 days ago 80 posts - 163 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Arabic (Yemeni), Arabic (Written) Studies: French | Message 6 of 8 19 July 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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I'm having a hard time reading it, but it isn't because of the size of the font, rather the fuzziness and lack of contrast. I suspect it's because of the poor quality of the image, not the book. The font size is normal for native readers, but might be too small for language learners. After squinting my eyes, I can barely read the last three lines: 6. They said ... the population of Baghdad was three million. 7. One Thousand and One Nights is a famous Arabic story. 8. They say ... One Thousand and One Nights is a famous Arabic story. This exercise is asking you to write "إن" in the blanks.
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5323 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 8 19 July 2010 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
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It's a Naskh style font, which is the normal font for printed materials. The only minor issue that I found is that they've vocalized هٰذِهِ (hādhihi) with a fatḥa instead of a dagger alif, but most people would consider this only a minor cosmetic issue.
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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 8 14 March 2015 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
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So this course:
http://www.linguaphonelanguages.com/inc/sdetail/3306/3438 Is definitely the same, content-wise, as the well-regarded 1977 course? What is it that made the early one so good, anyway? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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