Arabic Phrases For Dummies

by Amine Bouchentouf

A concise, portable guide for communicating in Arabic
Today, Arabic is spoken in more than 20 countries, and more than one billion people study Arabic for religious reasons. This practical guide offers help on basic Arabic words and phrases and eases communication with Arabic speakers. Written as a companion to Arabic For Dummies, this book provides readers with the tools to converse with others in Modern Standard Arabic on a basic level. It uses real-world phrases extensively to illustrate grammatical concepts and provide opportunities to practice newfound skills.
Amine Bouchentouf (New York, NY) is a native Arabic speaker from Morocco and the author of Arabic For Dummies (978-0-471-77270-5).

Genres: Language

224 pages, Paperback

Published February 20, 2009

About the author

Amine Bouchentouf is a native English, Arabic, and French speaker born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. Amine has been teaching Arabic and lecturing about relations between America and the Arab world in his spare time for over 4 years and has offered classes and seminars for students at Middlebury College, the Council on Foreign Relations, and various schools across the United States.
Amine graduated from Middlebury College and published his first book, Arabic: A Complete Course (Random House), soon after graduating college in order to help Americans understand Arabic language and culture. He has written Arabic For Dummies in an attempt to reach an even wider audience with the aim of fostering better relations through education.
He holds a degree in Economics from Middlebury and has extensive experience in the arena of international investing. He is a registered investment advisor and a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Amine is currently working on his third book, Investing in Commodities For Dummies (Wiley Publishing).
Amine is an avid traveler and has visited over 15 countries across the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. Aside from his interest in languages, business, and travel, Amine enjoys biking, rollerblading, playing guitar, chess, and golf. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Ruba AlTurki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Two stars for the good grammar part.
I am a native Arabic speaker and I'm looking through 'Arabic teaching' books and rating them for my followers/students, and this book is one of the books that I would not recommend for learning for very good reasons:
1. there wasn't a single Arabic word written in that book! other than the Arabic consonants chart that explain how to pronounce them, the book was all in English. And that's not the right way to learn any language.
2.The book promised to teach MSA (modern stander Arabic) but that wasn't the case, there were some regional dialects in there mostly Egyptian, ex:p.192,166,95.
3.Some of the words in there aren't even Arabic! I can't tell what they are ex:95,76,74.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

As promised, it is full of phrases. However, it is basically a simplified copy-and-paste job of the Arabic for Dummies book, although, impressively, with more mistakes than that book.