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Let's Read the Arabic Newspapers | 
 enlarge | Author: Howard D. Rowland
Publisher: Intl Book Centre
Category: Book
Buy New: $29.95
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 328178
Media: Paperback
Pages: 299
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0866856730
EAN: 9780866856737
ASIN: 0866856730
Publication Date: August 25, 2008
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1001 nights August 22, 2007
Recep Sami Ciner (Ankara Turkey)
excellent resource for solving the mystery of news in arabic script apperaring in a newspaper. beginning with short arabic newspaper excerpts you progress into full page newspaper tezts. Every arabic texts has its own translation.No transliteration whatsoever. for intermediate and advanced readers. one that you can not do without.
You must get this book... January 3, 2007
Karen Nelson (Takoma Park, MD USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
...if you want to be able to read the Arabic news media. The content here is definitely no-frills -- 100 articles from the late 1980's, arranged in order of length, with plain-English translations. A bit of vocabulary is given, but not much. There are questions about each article and answers in the back, and a few exercises. There is no interpretation or explanation of any of the articles (although the trivia questions are a nice touch!)
Nevertheless, the book is incredibly helpful -- here's how I used it: I have been studying Arabic on my own for about 2 years, and before this book I would xerox articles from al-Ahram but even if I looked up all the vocabulary (even that can be tricky), I couldn't piece together the meaning of the sentences. For the first 10 articles I read in this book, I felt the same way. Then I started seeing some patterns -- starting with being able to recognise the use of titles after a name, then figuring out how sentences broke down into smaller units, and so on. Right now I'm on article 60, and I can understand alot of it without looking at the translation. Last week I went back to the current newspaper and read through 2 articles -- the style and vocabulary has not changed much, and I was able to get through the current articles just as easily.
By the way, you should also get The Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic, by Elisabeth Kendall, to go with this book. The list is extremely useful.
Arabic Language Learning materials that you can't do without January 20, 1999
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is an invaluable tool that is a must have for any student of Arabic as a foreign language. The material is comprehensive and graduated form the easiest to the hardest. Passages include questions on content written in Arabic and the appendex is a translation with the answers to the questions. Perhaps this description doesn't do the book justice. The translations are in real life English not halting translation scribble and the questions are very realevant to the material and truley capture the most important elements of the passages. As if that were not a strong enough reccomendation, there are also trivial persuit type questions that enhance one's knowledge of the region and history. Bottom line, if you are an English speaking student of Arabic, you have to use this book!!!
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