Read and Speak Arabic for Beginners, Third Edition

This is a great workbook! I love how it comes with a cd for pronunciation. There are also a lot of activities and games that help you learn words really easily!

This is an accessible and pedagogical book which will teach the beginners the basics of Arabic. It introduces practical phrases which are used in dialogues such as introducing oneself, saying where one is from, asking about different things and where they are located, describing objects and people, etc. The book comes with an accompanying CD which will teach the student to pronounce and memorize the words. It is a very useful tool which will help the student master the Arabic language. Joyce Akesson, author of The Complexity of the Irregular Verbal and Nominal Forms & the Phonological Changes in Arabic

My daughter who is studying Egyptian Arabic used this to get ready to take the course, it helped prepare her for diving head first into a language that she had no prior exposure to! She had just completed a 4 year college course in International Finance & THEN decided she wanted to tackle 1 of the most difficult languages to learn on the face of the earth!! Go figure! College kids!! LOL Anywho.......... she said it helped prep her for what was to come!!

There are lots of learn Arabic books out there. For your money's worth, many can provide you with much more information. So why this choose this one? It's fun. Never underestimate the importance of enjoying learning, because, if you're doing it on your own and it's not fun, it's very easy to give up, or at least take a (long) break. Studying needs to be interesting and captivating. This book is just that. It provides basic lessons, with useful vocabulary and grammar - not too much, not too little - and allows you to practice it in the book and using the CD, in a fun and engaging way. It has interactive conversations on the CD, cut-out games and flash cards in the book, and the typical textbook exercises are not long, tedious, or repetitive. The book provides the reading portion and the CD teaches the proper pronunciation. One of the best parts of this book is the fact it forces you to learn the alphabet, by making you read simple words in the script. It doesn't introduce the alphabet, which is why I would suggest reading a book like "The Arabic Alphabet" by Awde & Samano, but it's very difficult to memorize an alphabet without actually applying it, as this book makes you do. Although the book does not leave you with a large vocabulary or much grammar, in an easy and fun manner it gives you the basics to work from. I would definitely recommend it.