Book Title | Teach Yourself Complete Spoken Arabic |
Book Author | Jack Smart |
Total Pages | 403 |
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Language | English |
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Teach Yourself Complete Spoken Arabic (of the Arabian Gulf) (with Audio) (J. R. Smart)
TEACH YOURSELF COMPLETE SPOKEN ARABIC
Arabic is a Semitic language, one of an ancient group of languages spoken across North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South-West Asia. Its main surviving sister language is modern Hebrew. Modern Arabic exists on two levels.
The first is the written Arabic of books, newspapers, and the media, known as Modern Standard Arabic; the second is colloquial or spoken Arabic, which varies across the Arab world and Is not normally written.
Although spoken Arabic differs between countries, all dialects descend directly from Ancient Arabic.
This book deals with one of the larger dialect groups, spoken in the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Arabic is written from right to left, cursively, like European handwriting, i.e. most letters are joined up. There is no equivalent of European printed text, with separated letter
s. There are no capital letters.
The alphabet has 28 consonants. The short vowels, such as an as in hat, are not normally written.
The Arabic script looks difficult but is quite easy to master. Spelling is no problem as there are few irregularities.
Some strange sounds in Arabic do not occur in English, but these can be mastered with practice. Vocabulary can be difficult as Arabic comes from a different language group from English, but – especially In spoken Arabic – there are many ‘borrowed’ words, such as a bank, and cinema or”””, along
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