Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course

This book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of the many colloquial varieties. This long-established and successful text has been completely revised with the needs of English-speaking learners especially in mind, and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

Step-by-step guide to understanding written and spoken texts

Develops conversational ability as well as reading and writing skills

Arabic-English Glossary containing 2600 entries

Fresh texts and dialogues containing up-to-date data on the Middle East and North Africa

Includes Arab folklore, customs, proverbs, and short essays on contemporary topics

Grammatical terms also given in Arabic enabling students to attend language courses in Arab countries

Provides a wide variety of exercises and drills to reinforce grammar points, vocabulary learning and communicative strategies

Includes a key to the exercises

Accompanying cassettes also available.

Author: Eckehard Schulz, Günther Krahl, Wolfgang Reuschel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/15/2000
Pages: 654
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.77h x 6.92w x 1.32d
ISBN: 9780521774659