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Complete Arabic: The Basics (PKG) (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Amine Bouchentouf, Rym Bettaieb, Living Language
Publisher: Living Language
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $18.12
You Save: $11.83 (39%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1848293
Format: Unabridged
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Com/Pap Bl
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 2.4
ISBN: 1400024080
Dewey Decimal Number: 492
EAN: 9781400024087
ASIN: 1400024080
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
With Living Language Complete Arabic: The Basics, you’ll start by learning words, and then you’ll progress to phrases, sentences, and conversations. This simple four-step building block approach will have you speaking with confidence right from the beginning, and you’ll be able to learn gradually and effectively. Best of all, this comprehensive course includes everything you need — pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, culture, and practice — and it’s designed to be effective in a short period of time. So what are you waiting for? With Living Language, you’re just a few simple steps away from speaking Arabic!
This comprehensive course package includes:
•40 step-by-step lessons in a convenient coursebook
•3 audio CDs with all the important course content
•A comprehensive grammar reference section
•Supplemental sections on e-mail and internet resources
•An Arabic script guide
•A bonus pocket travel reference
Plus, you can save $5 with publisher mail-in rebate!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Excellent buy for beginning Arabic November 22, 2008
Shoshana S. Gutschow (Lawrence, NJ)
Just bought the Arabic for Beginners text, which came with 3 CDs. Very inexpensive. Arabic grammar, basic concepts explained in English, which was very helpful. Great buy.
 Good for grammar - but little else. July 26, 2006
hoogli/jklsong (Edison, NJ)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
After learning the basics of Arabic from this book, I stopped reading it. It feels like a phrasebook, just spewing random vocabulary that doesn't really help you.
On a positive note, it doesn't just teach MSA, it has other dialects.
I've heard that "Mastering Arabic" is a pretty good book. Try that instead.
Good Supplement April 19, 2006
Meg (NJ)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I realized when I bought the package that what this would teach me was the Modern Standard Arabic, and not a regional colloqial, but I figured it would be a nice supplement to what I was already learning. It met my expectations.
It does not teach the student how to read Arabic (for that, try the (Teach Yourself series)but the conversations were helpful with building my vocabulary.
explanation of product February 24, 2006
Brian Duke
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The CD's that come with the textbook are just the oral pronunciation of the written arabic words. Ive done the first few lessons and it seems helpful for beggining to become conversational in arabic. If you want to learn to write arabic or read arabic, look for a product that is more specialized in that area.
 Horrible December 31, 2005
Levi Rowland
27 out of 35 found this review helpful
First off, I am a student of six languages, Arabic being one of them and I bought this course to improve my Arabic but it was a waste of money to the highest degree. There are multiple reaons why this is an aboslutely horrible Arabic course...
1. This course teaches you through dialogues which is a wretched way to learn a language, and is only going to get you to a conversational level and probably not even that.
2. The writing system of Arabic is hardly spoke of and you will not learn the system well enough to even make out sign or simple maps, it is a horrible method and I had to buy another book to learn the system; this is important because you should never try to learn the Arabic language without a COMPLETE understadnign of the alphabet.
3. This language learning tool doesn't teach colloquial terms or useful exrpressions, and that is very important to learning.
Overall I would not reccomend this at all to anyone wanting to lean this language. After trying for almost a month to learn from it, I stopped using it and have had to purchase other books to keep learning this fascinating language.
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