First Arabic Reader for beginners bilingual for speakers of English. The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method) utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author had to compose each sentence using only words explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only 29 new words each. Audio tracks are available inclusive on lppbooks.com/Arabic/FirstArabicReader...
Very good reader. Since there are not many Arabic readers out there, it is of great value. I found most of the stories quite amusing, esp. the one about two students team-working on a writing assignment (a girls wants to write a romantic story, a man wants to write a sci-fi warrior story; see what happens :). Learning by having fun, that is the best.
I thought this book was going to be different. You need to be able to read Arabic and know how to speak it. There weren't any audio files included with this book like I thought there would be. I am glad I won this because I'm hoping I will be able to find someone that could get some use out of it.