| This
book will teach you how to speak and understand the spoken
Arabic of the Gulf region. It is not a manual of standard,
or literary, Arabic, which is not a spoken language -
for that use Teach Yourself Arabic. However, so
that you will be able to read road signs, shop names etc,
there is a simple guide to the Arabic alphabet.
In the first ten units of the book you
will find all the important information that you will
need for good communication in Gulf Arabic. The last
four units refer to specific situations in which you
might find yourself if you are visiting or living in
the region, and build on the words and grammar you have
already learned.
Each unit contains several dialogues
which introduce the new language in a realistic context.
The new words and phrases are given in both Arabic script
and English transliteration. There are plenty of exercises
to check your progress and the answers for these are
at the back of the book or on the recording. The final
section of each unit contains the Arabic script which
gradually takes you through the Arabic alphabet so that
by the end you will be able to recognise simple road
signs and so on.
There is a double cassette to accompany
this book, available separately or with the book in
a pack. |
| Jack
Smart, co-author, was Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic
studies at the University of Exeter before retirement.
Frances Altorfer, co-author,
was a modern languages teacher in secondary education. |
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