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| Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4638 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 57 of 70 03 September 2013 at 5:44am | IP Logged | ||
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@KSAKSA:
I went through Arabic for Life a while back in order to see if I would recommend it to Arabic students. I didn't use it myself when studying Arabic (it wasn't published back then), but I can answer your questions. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tanizaki Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4800 days ago 21 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese | Message 58 of 70 03 September 2013 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
I would like to know your thoughts about Arabic for Life. What did you think of the text? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5145 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 59 of 70 03 September 2013 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
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That would be great Jappy58, is it for complete learners or would it also suit intermediate?
I saw on Amazon that it uses 'poems and prose excerpts by well-known Arab writers and thinkers' (which definitely interests me) and I'd also like to know if you had the opportunity to review the accompanying DVD? How does it compare with Al-Kitaab Vol 1? Enquiring minds are dying to know what you think of it. Updated to add: sorry Jappy58, saw your post at http://www.how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.a sp?TID=34547&PN=1&TPN=1 I didn't find this when I went searching the forum earlier. Sounds like a great book. Cheers Edited by KSAKSA on 03 September 2013 at 11:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4638 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 60 of 70 04 September 2013 at 5:35am | IP Logged | ||
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@Tanizaki & KSAKSA: I had actually forgotten I had given my opinion on it before, so it's okay! :D
Yeah, I personally preferred Arabic for Life to Al-Kitaab. It's still not really designed completely for self-studying students (e.g., answers for exercises are absent), but it is still a great course to establish your foundation in Modern Standard Arabic. A resource I would recommend after going through Arabic for Life is "Focus on Contemporary Arabic" by Shukri B. Abed. It's good for improving listening skills and it has transcripts of the topics. As far as online resources go, Aswaat Arabiyya is excellent as well (though there aren't transcripts). 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5145 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 61 of 70 04 September 2013 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, some fab leads there Jappy58!
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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 62 of 70 04 September 2013 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, & thanks for your opinion! I tried AlKitaab a few years ago when I was concentrating on Arabic and I just couldn't get into it. It is nice to know that there is an alternative! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5145 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 63 of 70 07 October 2013 at 4:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi All
Just prowling around the net and saw this book: Arabic Stories for Language Learners Traditional Middle-Eastern Tales in Arabic and English By Hezi Brosh, Lutfi Mansur (with DVD)...has anyone a review they'd like to share? Cheers 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7144 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 64 of 70 07 October 2013 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another possibility, just coming onto the market:
Arabiyyat al-Naas a three-part series being issued by Routledge. (Per Amazon, the first volume is scheduled to be published today.) Here's the page describing the first volume, from the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415516938/ Not having seen the book, I can't comment as to how it compares to the alternatives, but it's nice to see more resources coming onto the market. Routledge books, while not cheap, are usually of pretty high quality, and so I'm optimistic on this one. I also think it's interesting in terms of the way they combine MSA with the Levantine dialect. ADDENDUM: The first comment on this book to appear on the Amazon.com site is quite negative. Edited by daristani on 14 October 2013 at 2:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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