Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for Arabic, Part Two, Second Edition

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Customer Reviews:

An excellent presentation of an intoxicating language [Posted on 2007-09-29]
This this an excellent learning tool. I finished the book one with a tutor. I am trying to study the part two on my own. I have to say this is not a self study book. You are required to make presentations, write essays etc. You need somebody to correct them. But still there are a lot of stuff you can learn from part two without a tutor. The grammar is excellent. Almost intoxicating. It draws you in, keeps you captive, makes you wonder " what a magical language". I speak 6 languages, haven't seen something like this. I stay up sometime until two AM doing these exercises. Unfortunately there are not many institutions teaching arabic and this book. At least not in my area.

In this book, the story of the beautiful Maha and her gorgeous cousin Khaled is moved to 3amiyyah. I study hard for each chapter and my bonus at the end is seeing this soap opera.

Each chapter has Listening exercises. They are offered with different degree of difficulty. First one or two is easily understandable for my level. But usually there is one exercise in each chapter that is from real life Arabic television or order programming. You are not expected to understand all of it. I wish there were scrips of these parts available somewhere as well.
I have written to the authors of the book asking them for these scripts. So far I have not received any response yet.

Arabic is probably the most beautiful and magical language and this book truly displays these features. If you are not ready to surrender to it, don't bother.

Al-kitaab al-Thaanii [Posted on 2007-10-06]
While the al-Kitaab series is not without its flaws--among which must be counted an overemphasis, in this reader's opinion, on the Egyptian dialect of Arabic--it remains the best of the several offerings available. And this second volume is notable for correcting what was perhaps the most lamentable weakness of the first volume; namely, a lack of attention to the acquisition of vocabulary, which must necessarily underwrite advanced language learning (particularly in the context of Arabic, whose grammar is not especially difficult). Still and all, an attractive and eminently useful course, made the more so by the inclusion of well-designed DVDs to aid in oral comprehension. Recommended, with only very minimal reservations.

The best book for anyone who wants to learn arabic [Posted on 2008-03-06]
I purchased series of this book and i can say that it is very very nice book. it support learner with DVD and answer ky book. DVDs are prepared and organized very carefully and have rich content.
I highly recommned this book to learners of arabic language.

Arabic grammar text used in Universities [Posted on 2008-04-06]
This text is chosen by several Universities for teaching Arabic grammar.
It does use the vocabulary of the Media and Modern Standard Arabic. The
DVD's are useful as drill and practice replacing the Lab atmosphere and
are quite practical. Nonetheless, I find the organzation a bit disorganized and disjointed and the explanations too short and incomplete.
I am using it but find it awkward and a bit stereotyped in how it presents
its examples.

serious and complete [Posted on 2008-05-29]
The book is very serious in the sens that it teaches you the grammer, make you see the arabic reach system of vocabulary and goes from the very begging to an advaced level. If you intend to learn arabic to be able to read newspaper, which was my case, this book is one of the best. If you want just to learn severla words and phrases to impress supperficially some arabic speeker, forget about this book. The price is very reasonable for the value of the book(s). The answer key books are important. I just wish there was also such an anwer book for volume 3.

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