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 enlarge | Authors: Nicholas Awde, Putros Samano
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 12598
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 95
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0818404302
Dewey Decimal Number: 492.711
EAN: 9780818404306
ASIN: 0818404302
Publication Date: October 1, 2000
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 Great 4 beginners! July 19, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for those who want to learn the language or simply the alphabet. It gives you a basic introduction to Arabic and the book is structured so you can learn the letters along with the pronunciation one by one. It can be used as a reference guide for those who are studying Arabic in school.
Start with this one! June 16, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book will really shorten the learning curve for learning the Arabic alphabet, especially if you are studying arabic on your own. The book takes a very intuitive progression through the letters. Once you've gotten reasonably comfortable with this book, I recommend hitting 'Your first 100 words in Arabic', by Wightwick. Between these two books, you should have a good fundamental grasp of the alphabet.
How to begin with Arabic... April 11, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Good things come in simple packages. This booklet, soft-bound and printed on inexpensive paper, should be the beginning point for every westerner's attempts to learn Arabic. It addresses clearly the differences in underlying logic between Arabic and the various European languages, and explains them in simple terms. It removed, for me, various mysterious and seemingly incomprehensible elements that are glossed over in standard textbooks. I recommend it absolutely. It is much more than a "beastiary" for Arabic letters.
Very clear March 31, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book might well be the best place to start learning Arabic handwriting. For those interested in getting two books, Mace's "Teach Yourself Arabic Script" would be a good companion volume. The two books are different in style and orientation. The Awde contains about 180 words and phrases, plus or minus, to practice on. The book doesn't contain handwritten examples, but all the words are printed in a large-font calligraphic typeface. Plus, all the words and phrases are vowelized, so you can sound out the letters of the script as you write them. (The Mace dispenses with vowels, except in the phonetic transcriptions.) The Awde book concludes with a few important verses from the Koran. (Mace gives a lot of street signs.) Although the calligraphic examples in the Awde might strike you, as they first did me, as a bit precious, the fact remains that Arabic words are hard to learn. By tracing them on tracing paper, as Awde suggests, or by using a calligraphic felt-tip pen, as I've recently started to do, the words become prettier, more legible, and therefore, I expect, more memorable. All in all, this is a fine primer.
This is the Book! March 19, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is the best choice for learning the Arabic Script, which is essential to starting any Arabic study. BTW - You need a book like this to learn the script; the texts that just give you a chart of letters and equivalents will not work, even though they claim to teach the alphabet as well (First 100 words in Arabic, for example). Arabic letters combine in unexpected ways that you could never figure out by inference.
Awde teaches the alphabet clearly, but with the minimum of extraneous information. The other choice - Mahmoud al-Batal's "Alif Baa", used by virtually every college Arabic program is good, but includes too many linguistic details for the beginner, unless you're planning to do a Master's Thesis on the variations of Arabic pronunciation.
If you're a beginning hoping to unlock the Arabic script, you want it simple and easy. Rather than read about the three different regional pronunciations of jiim, you need someone to tell you jiim = j.
You have to practice the letters on your own, but this is the best start for understanding what they mean.
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