Arabic Beginning and Intermediate Packages Using the Foreign Service Institute Series as a core, we've assembled two multimedia learning packages for beginning and intermediate Arabic. The beginning course is built around the FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course, which teaches the Urban Hijazi Dialect of Arabic, the most widely spoken and understood dialect on the Arabian Peninsula and the language of government and commerce. It's accompanied by Arabic Made Easy, an interactive CD-ROM for pronunciation and speech practice, and a phrasebook. The intermediate course is built around the FSI Modern Written Arabic Course, which gives a thorough grounding in Modern Written Arabic, focusing on newspapers, editorials, essays, books, and periodicals, and is designed to give the user access to the realms of journalism, government, and literature. Included with it is World Talk for Arabic, an interactive CD-ROM which features games, drills, and quizzes for grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Together these two packages represent savings of $20 and $40 respectively over buying these items separately. Added to the beginning course is Eric Dondero's Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book, free for another $12.95 savings! And if you buy both courses together, there is another savings of $33, totalling $108! Starting at $299
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(Includes FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course (CD version), Arabic Made Easy CD-ROM, and Eastern Arabic-English Dictionary and Phrasebook) The FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course teaches the Urban Hijazi Dialect of Arabic, the most widely spoken and understood dialect on the Arabian Peninsula and the language of government and commerce. This modern course was created for use by diplomats, business people and serious language students and is designed to give the student a working proficiency in the language. Students will be able to satisfy routine social and limited business requirements, be able to carry on conversations regarding a wide range of topics, and comprehend speech at a normal rate of speed. The book also provides students with the basic grammatical structures of the dialect enabling them to proceed to a greater mastery of the language. Comes with 15 CDs and a book..
Arabic Made Easy is a CD-ROM that teaches written Classical or formal Arabic and the spoken Egyptian dialect. The course begins with patient, interactive instruction in the written language, starting with the alphabet. The student first learns the names of the letters, then the sounds they represent, and how to read and write Arabic words. Because the Arabic writing system is often the most difficult part of the language for many students, games and quizzes are included to provide painless reinforcement and review of the material.
Because the Arabic language has been spoken from Morocco to Saudi Arabia for centuries before mass communications, there are a wide variety of dialects of the spoken language. The dialect spoken in Egypt is generally considered the best choice for the beginning student or traveler because it is heard throughout the Arabic-speaking world in movies and on television. In other words, even though a student of the Egyptian dialect will probably have difficulty understanding the Arabic spoken by people in Iraq or Libya, he is still likely to make himself understood wherever he goes in the Arabic-speaking world.
The Eastern Arabic-English / English-Eastern Arabic Dictionary and Phrasebook covers the spoken Arabic of Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Syria. It gives a brief description of Arabic grammar with a pronunciation guide followed by 2,200 entries of useful and up-to-date phrases and basic key vocabulary.
Together, this package gives a complete beginning course that covers all the bases: spoken and written Arabic in its modern and classical forms. And now for a limited time, get Eric Dondero's Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book, a $12.95 value, FREE!.
(Includes FSI Modern Written Arabic - Level One and World Talk CD-ROM for Arabic) Within the Arabic speaking world there is a considerable diversity of dialects spoken. In addition to the colloquial dialects, there is a literary language known as Modern Written Arabic, which functions as the official language of newspapers, radio, television, and academia. FSI Modern Written Arabic gives a thorough grounding in MWA, focusing on newspapers, editorials, essays, books, and periodicals, and is designed to give the user access to the realms of journalism, government, and literature. The student is expected to have learned the Arabic writing system and pronunciation; in addition, familiarity with the principles of syllabification and stress, pausal and non-pausal forms, and the transcription system utilized in the notes and vocabulary are also required. Comes with book and 18 tapes.
World Talk is an interactive CD-ROM from Eurotalk for intermediate students with games, drills, and quizzes designed to expand your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in a fun and relaxed way. Together these make a complete intermediate package for Arabic.
Arabic Beginning Course Package (Includes FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course (CD version), Arabic Made Easy CD-ROM, and Eastern Arabic-English Dictionary and Phrasebook) This represents a savings of $20 over separate purchases! And now for a limited time, get Eric Dondero's Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book, a $12.95 value, FREE!. $299
Arabic Intermediate Course Package (Includes FSI Modern Written Arabic - Level One and World Talk CD-ROM for Arabic) This represents a savings of $40 over separate purchases! $299