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Teach Yourself Arabic Conversation (Teach Yourself Conversations) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.77
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3163146
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340912383
EAN: 9780340912386
ASIN: 0340912383
Publication Date: December 30, 2005
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Product Description
This stand-alone, all-audio course can be used by those who have little or no knowledge of the language, by those who want to learn or brush up basic conversation skills, and by more advanced learners who require extra audio material to complement their current courses. Egyptian and Iraqi voices are used on the recording, so this course can be used with confidence by visitors to the Levant and Gulf areas. Indications are also given of where North African usage diverges. The ten units or 'conversations' cover the situations you are most likely to find yourself in while on holiday or on business abroad. They are divided into two parts, with a dialogue in each part. The dialogue in Part 2 reuses the vocabulary and phrases from Part 1 in a slightly different context. Both parts start with an introduction to the words and phrases you'll need, followed by the dialogue. Finally it's 'Over to you': you take part in the same dialogues following the English prompts, playing all the roles in turn. So you get lots of opportunity to practise! Frequent track markers divide the CDs up into short, easy-to-use clips. Vocabulary and phrases in the first two CDs are kept to the basics and are introduced gradually with lots of opportunity to repeat and practise, to improve your confidence in both speaking and understanding. The third CD concentrates on helping you improve your understanding, so that you will be able to hold two-way conversations with people who speak very fast or use words and phrases you do not know. The course comes on three 75-minute CDs and has an accompanying 48-page booklet which gives the dialogues and the translations of the dialogues, for those who like to see the written word or want additional practice. The Arabic is transliterated into romanized script. The booklet also provides a basic glossary of the words and phrases used. This is the perfect complement to 'Teach Yourself Arabic', 'Teach Yourself Gulf Arabic' and 'Teach Yourself Beginner's Arabic Script'.
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 Good Course, but uses two dialects February 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the second Teach Yourself ____ Conversation course I have purchased. The first was Teach Yourself Spanish Conversation, which was quite good. This course is also good, however it does suffer from the fact that the speakers are using BOTH the Egyptian and the Iraqi dialects. While a person will still be understood if they find themselves speaking this mix of Egyptian and Iraqi dialects, if one is focusing on studying a particular dialect (Egyptian, in my case), it may be beneficial to ignore the speakers of the other dialect on the CDs.
The program covers most standard tourist and daily living situations a person may encounter. It is quite similar to Pimsleur, in that you are supposed to take part in the conversation and respond to questions, as opposed to memorizing words or grammar tables in isolation. The CDs come with a booklet, providing a transcription of all of the dialogs, however the transcription is transliterated and contains no Arabic script. One can use the CDs only and never look at the booklet. I would estimate that the entire course covers 350 words.
This course can be used by a beginner, although they may find it frustrating repeating each lesson several times, and most likely they would need to use the booklet as well. Someone who has completed another basic course in the language (perhaps Pimsleur or Linguaphone) could use this course as a great review and a tool for increasing their vocabulary.
 CD Arabic Conversation May 13, 2007
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am making a short trip to Morocco...thought there would be some easy greetings....it starts right our with conversation...I possibly bought the wrong CD.
 Great book February 17, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had to buy this book because I kept getting late fees for failing to return the library copy on time. It's great for getting a basic grasp of the language but especially good if you can use it in conjunction with getting some help from a native speaker. The binding could be stronger though - the pages start to fall out if you study a particular section for very long...
It could be improved by including some more of the vocab on the cds too. But this is definitely the best overall book that I have found to date to give a comphrehensive introduction to Arabic.
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