Arabic, Why Not? Part 1

by Romy Matthies

Overview

Welcome to this first instalment of the ARABIC, WHY NOT?–عربي لماذا لا؟series, which will help you to improve your Arabic listening and writing skills through easy to follow lessons that are accompanied by free videos to be found on our YouTube channel (Romy Matthies).
This first volume includes lessons 1 to 10 and is aimed for beginning and intermediate learners of Arabic. Later releases of this series will provide texts for more advanced learners. Each lesson includes the text in Arabic script and an English translation. Please note, that the translation into English provides the context but is not necessarily a one-to-one translation.
For the best learning results, first listen several times the recordings provided in the YouTube videos trying to capture the general meaning of each text. Later, read along the Arabic text while you listen and enhance your understanding with the help of the English translation. At the last stage, you can improve your Arabic writing skills by listening to the slowly spoken version of the text, write along and compare to the original provided in this book and the YouTube videos.
We hope you enjoy ARABIC, WHY NOT? – عربي لماذا لا؟ Part I.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046537383
Publisher:	Romy Matthies
Publication date:	01/21/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	129 KB
Language:	Arabic

About the Author

Romy is a trained Earth scientist and has been passionate in languages for most of her life. She has been living in six different countries on three continents and speaks five languages. Her engagement with the Arabic language and the limited learning material available, has let her to write the first instalment of the eBook Arabic, Why Not? Part 1 that is co-authored by Amr Salman, a native Arabic speaker. The eBook is accompanied by audio programmes that can be downloaded at no additional cost from Apple’s iTunes store. With the eBook and the podcasts Romy and Amr aim to promote the study of Arabic, a language of the United Nations that is spoken by more than 290 million people. When Romy is not studying languages or creating online language learning material, she is probably travelling, cooking or doing yoga.