Arabic for Beginners: A Guide to Modern Standard Arabic

A complete beginning language course for Modern Standard Arabic!

This is an ideal introductory textbook—quickly teaching you everything you need to get started learning this beautiful and popular language. Spoken by over 400 million people, Arabic is the world’s 5th most spoken language.

Each of the 20 lessons in this book includes:

• A real-life, practical dialogue that increases your proficiency and ability to communicate, and online audio recordings.
• The free online audio recordings by native speakers help you learn how to accurately pronounce all the Arabic words and sentences provided
• A list of common Arabic words and phrases along with sentence patterns and grammar notes
• Extensive drills and exercises to reinforce the lessons and help you progress
• Interesting information on culture, geography, customs, pastimes and everyday life
• “Reflections” that allow you to record what you have learned, helping you track your progress

Arabic for Beginners teaches you how to read and write the Arabic script, and comes with a set of free downloadable flash cards to help you memorize the alphabet and basic vocabulary. A glossary at the back allows you to look up the equivalents for common Arabic and English words.