Teacher's Edition of Alif Baa: An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (With DVD, Third Editio)

by Unknown, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi

ISBN 978-1-58901-705-4 English edition new with DVD

Genres: Language, Nonfiction

251 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

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Reviews

[Neil R. Coulter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm loving my first semester of Arabic. This is the textbook we've started with, though the class is based more on the in-class work led by our amazing teacher. I don't think the book would be as helpful if it were used for self-study, without the guidance of a good teacher (and our teacher sometimes disagrees with the style of handwriting the book recommends). But as a supplement to the class, it's been a good way of learning the alif baa for the first time.

The online content is helpful, but it could really use a revamp; it looks very Web 1.0. Also, it hurts to pay the high price for the book and then have to pay an additional fee for online access (which expires after a period of time).

We'll be moving on to the next book in the series, الكتاب في تعلم العربية, now.

[K Todd Ramer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of two assigned books for my first semester Arabic 101 course. Overall, I felt this book was perfectly structured for helping me to understand a language that 3 months ago I couldn't even pronounce, but now can write just about anything in.

The only thing I didn't enjoy was the companion DVD. I could not understand half what anyone was saying because they were speaking fast and not very clear. I ended up abandoning the DVD's oral lessons entirely about a month into the semester and focusing on just the book.

K.