Publisher's Synopsis
This book is designed to increase your Arabic vocabulary, to improve your reading skills, and to show you how conversations are structured in Arabic. With these aims in mind, the book features full-length situational conversations pertaining to daily life in the Arab world. This method will help you understand vocabulary and idiomatic Arabic by setting the language in context. The book is aimed at students who have already taken an introductory course in Arabic: before using this book, you should be familiar with the pronunciation and written text of Arabic letters and basic words. This book contains more than sixty lessons covering different situations, and has questions written in English with extensive vocabulary sections based on the dialogues. The Arabic text is fully vocalized to help with pronunciation. Most of the lessons are written in Modern Standard Arabic, but includes some other Arabic dialects. The dialogues are particularly rich in idiomatic phrases and traditional greetings.