Teach Yourself Arabic Conversation

Author: Gaafar, Jane, Mahmoud Wightwick
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews

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•	Audio CD - Teach Yourself Arabic Conversation (Teach Yourself Conversations)

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Good Course, but uses two dialects February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 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.

2 out of 5 stars

CD Arabic Conversation May 13, 2007
4 out of 12 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.

5 out of 5 stars

Great book February 17, 2007
13 out of 14 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.