Colloquial Arabic (Levantine): The Complete Course for Beginners: v. 10 - Brossura

McLoughlin, Leslie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415448573 ISBN 13: 9780415448574

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2008

Riassunto

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.

What makes Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) your best choice in personal language learning?

• Interactive – lots of dialogues and exercises for regular practice.
• Clear – concise grammar notes.
• Complete – including answer key and dictionary section
• Helpful – provides invaluable guidance on everything related to language in its social, cultural, and religious contexts.
• Innovative – the course also teaches the skills of reading Arabic script.

Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Leslie Mcloughlin is Honarary research fellow at the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter. He was Director of Studies at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS), Shemlan,  Lebanon 1965-68 and 1970-75. He also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and 1970. In 1987 he founded the MECAS Association. He has published several text books for modern Arabic, spoken and writtten.

He has lectured in Arabic in many Arabic countries and most recently in Oman and Saudi Arabia.

He interpreted for HM The Queen and Her Majesty's Government from 1983-2004.

As a University Fellow at Exeter he has taught all years of the undergraduate programme in Arabic and has taught a Master's course in translation.

As a historian he has specialized in the history of Saudi Arabia and published a biography of the first King, Ibn Saud, in 1993.

 

 

Contenuti:

Part 1: The Lessons  1. Nouns and Adjectives  2. Possession and Pronouns; Numbers  3. Verbs, Word Order, This/That/These/Those  4. Verbs, Conjunctions, Comparatives  5. Participles, Active and Passive  6. Hollow Verbs; To be Able  7. More Verbs: Now they are Defective or Doubled!  8. Even More Verbs: Now they are Assimilated!  9. The Relative Pronoun, Verbal Nouns and Possession  10. Yet More Verbs! Now they are Really Idiomatic  11. Conditional Sentences  12. Idioms  13. Terms of Address and Reference  14. Proverbs  15. Courtesy Expressions  16. A Story  17. A Miscellany (With Apologies to Schott’s…)  18. Concepts in Society  19. Abuse (Read Carefully. Do Not Try this at Home.)  Part 2: Appendices  A. Key to Exercises   B. Grammar, Indexed by Lesson  C. Vocabulary: English-Arabic and Arabic-English  D. Towns and Cities  E. Members of the Arab League  F. Bibliography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415448573
• ISBN 13: 9780415448574
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 240