ABSTRACT

Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) offers you a step-by-step approach to the Arabic spoken in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Levantine Arabic is widely recognized as one of the major languages of Arabic radio and television. Specially written by an international authority on teaching Arabic as a foreign language, Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) is the ideal course for self-study or class use and requires no previous knowledge of the language.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Introduction to Arabic pronunciation

part |2 pages

Part 1 The units

chapter 1|9 pages

Basic sentences for communication

chapter 3|11 pages

Verbs, word order and demonstratives

chapter 5|8 pages

Participles, active and passive

chapter 8|9 pages

‘Workers of the world, unite!’

chapter 10|8 pages

‘Four-letter words’: whatever next?

chapter 11|13 pages

‘If she-goats could only fly’

part |2 pages

Part 2 All the other things you have to know in order to have a meaningful conversation in Arabic

chapter 12|11 pages

Idioms

chapter 14|4 pages

Proverbs

chapter 15|5 pages

Courtesy expressions for various occasions

chapter 16|4 pages

A cautionary tale: how not to learn Arabic

chapter 17|9 pages

A miscellany

chapter 18|7 pages

Concepts in society