Teach Yourself Arabic: A Complete Course for Beginners

by Jack Smart

This is a complete course in written and spoken Arabic. If you have never learnt Arabic before, or if your Arabic needs brushing up, Teach Yourself Arabic is for you.

Teach Yourself Arabic is unique. Jack Smart explains everything clearly along the way and gives you plenty of opportunities to practise what you have learnt. The graded structure means that you can work at your own pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs. The course contains:

• A detailed introduction to the Arabic script and pronunciation
• Units introducing and explaining the basic constructions of Arabic
• Further units of dialogues, reading passages, notes on culture and more functions of Arabic
• A section on the verb in Arabic
• A section on Arabic numerals

By the end of this course you will be able to take a fully active part in the everyday life and culture of Arabic-speaking countries.

Genres: Reference, Language, Nonfiction

300 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 1979

About the author

John Robertson Smart

Reviews

[Milan Baes]

Ik heb geen flauw idee hoe je anders Arabisch zou aanleren. Ik vond het alvast eens aangenaam, soms ietwat verwarrend en ook geen inhoudstafel grr!
Nu heb ik stress en ben ik mijn huisgenoot, maar eerst en vooral vriend, Elias te ambeteren.

[Ahmed Ezzeldien · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an Egyptian .. I find that this book is very good to simplify learning Arabic for non-speakers, and I think it needs new editions that are better on the visual level because the edition that I read is old since 1992, was visually uncomfortable despite the quality of the content.

[Butsuri]

Arabic

[E · Rating 2 out of 5]

wish it had some pictures and phonetics

[Victoria Evangelina Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have started learning Arabic twice - when living in Egypt, and some 10 years later, when living in Aby Dhabi. This is a great book with tons of explanations and exercises, supplied by CDs. IF I was more motivated to actually know the language, I know I would have been much a success with the help of this set. Highly recommended!
PS I bought this box of a book and CDs at the bookstore of the American University in Cairo.

[Todd]

for gradually mounting that learning curve of semitic languages.... I love this series.

[Deshwi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really helped me a lot. While not "fluent", it gave me a good base from which to jump off.

[M.B. Dallocchio · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent guide through Modern Standard Arabic, but bear in mind that if you're going to a Levantine or Gulf country, this book will not prove to be very useful.

[keereads · Rating 4 out of 5]

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