Salamaat! Learning Arabic with Ease is a new language learning book designed to open your world to the beautiful Arabic language. "Salamaat!" means "Greetings, I hope you are well!" and is usually the first word used in every situation in the Arabic-spreaking world.
The first step is to become comfortable with the Arabic alphabet and the sounds of the language. Author Dr. Hezi Brosh has developed a highly successful, simplified teaching method that has helped thousands of English speakers to speak, read, and write Arabic within a short period.
His method teaches many basic building blocks that are proven to work well in promoting fluency. The most crucial goal of learning a language is to communicate effectively--learning the basic sentence structures and vocabulary that you need and will use on a daily basis. Salamaat! Learning Arabic with Ease guides you in acquiring the critical grammar and phrases, so you can begin to use Arabic to carry out fundamental tasks from greetings to daily routines.
Hezi Brosh, Ph.D., educator and researcher, has decades of experience in teaching Arabic. His innovative teaching materials on Arabic as a foreign language have benefited thousands of learners and teachers. He has worked in many educational institutions in the Middle East and North America, ranging from junior high school to university level. His area of specialization is Second Language Acquisition and he focuses on the teaching and learning of Arabic as a foreign language. He has published widely on Arabic pedagogy and significantly contributed to curriculum planning and development. Dr. Brosh is currently associate professor in the Languages and Cultures Department and affiliated with the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
It seems like a very good book. My basic issues as a middle age person who is trying to learn Arabic, there are no answers given to the exercises in the book. This totally defeats the purpose of self learning and I have the book on Farsi by the same publisher but luckily that contains the answers.
Very often the format of the book is decided by people who have no understanding of how languages are taught or understood by students. In this particular case I would probably blame the publisher.