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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6026 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 27 30 December 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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If you could choose just ONE method to teach yourself Arabic ( for self-study not to be used in a classroom), which one would you choose. I am excited about the multitude of responses I have received in response to : Has anyone out there actually taught themselves Arabic?!?! Has anyone out there actually taught themselves Arabic?!?! I'd be curious to see what people think. Please only vote if you have successfully used the course. Don't vote if you intend to use the course someday because it looks good, but is currently gathering dust on your bookshelf. The above seem to be the most popular choices from the other posts. By all means, if you have a different suggestion share it below! Thanks! / شكرا جزيلا لك! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 4911 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 2 of 27 30 December 2010 at 10:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I cannot vote (Newbie status, probably?), and I cannot unfortunately comment on the others, but Al-Kitaab with a
good grammar book on the side could work. For the "good grammar book", Abu Chacra's "Arabic: An Essential Grammar" should be enough, unless you too are a massive fan of grammar, in which case Karin C. Ryding's "A Reference Grammar of MSA" should do it for a start. After years of students complaining about Al-Kitaab, my university decided to change the textbook and went for Yale's "Ahlan Wa Sahlan", and I must admit I found it far less depressing than Al-Kitaab (I haven't studied with it properly, though). It should cover as much material, however, one of the comments from my lecturer was that it's good if you're not a complete beginner, as in completing "Alif Baa" would put you at the right level to start AWS. Edited by Préposition on 30 December 2010 at 10:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6026 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 27 30 December 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I checked it out - It does look better for self-study than Al Kitaab! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 4987 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 27 30 December 2010 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why not just read "Modern Literary Arabic" by David Cowan? - It's a concise introduction to Arabic, which I have found invaluable over the years.
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6026 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 27 31 December 2010 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
I just now picked it up on Amazon for 7 bucks. It looks like an awesome (ageless) book! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6026 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 27 31 December 2010 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
Hmmm, I'm not sure. I looked on the forum "rules" and they didn't say anything prohibitive regarding newbies and polls... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5372 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 7 of 27 31 December 2010 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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"Living Arabic: A Comprehensive Introductory Course" [With CD (Audio) and DVD]
BY Munther Younes & Micah Garen. For what it's worth I've seen the NEW Assimil book, looks quite good actually. Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 31 December 2010 at 4:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6323 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 8 of 27 01 January 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm familiar with all these books, although I haven't really worked much with Al-
kitaab. The way I'd approach learning Arabic, if starting from scratch, is first by working with the linguaphone and assimil courses, to get a feel for the structure of the language and a basic vocabulary. Then, I'd work at the Audiolingual courses, maybe the Orange book first, then the DLI course. I haven't seen it in a while, but I think the Orange book doesn't provide enough drills to really master the basic structures of Arabic. In conjunction with this, I'd start working with bilingual texts with recordings to see these structures in use and expand my vocabulary (although I hear they are a little hard to find in Arabic). I'd probably spend about half my time on each activity, changing activity every 45 minutes or so, and doing two 1.5 hour sessions a day. Then I think you would make good progress. If you had an opportunity to speak it with someone also, that would certainly help. This is probably how I would approach any language now. The methods came from different posters in this forum and I've arranged them to suit myself. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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