 | Your First 100 Words in Arabic : Beginner's Quick & Easy Guide to Demystifying Non-Roman Scripts by Jane Wightwick
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $4.68 Learning the Arabic script is useful for later work. This contains flash cards. Give it to a smart child when you're done.
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 | The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It by Nicholas Awde
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $5.94 Contains ligatures. A good beginner's resource.
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 | Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr
Buy new: $40.50 / Used from: $15.95 A dictionary that beats all others, as long as you know the Arabic alphabet. The third edition is available for about $15 in Egypt and Lebanon
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 | Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar: A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Arabic by Jane Wightwick
Buy used from: $2.64 A fair guide to verbs--difficult for beginners. Attack the red book first.
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 | Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course by Eckehard Schulz
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $14.44 A fully voweled textbook. Gets you into cultural vocabulary by chapter 5. I loved reading chapter 10 (readings on Islam) during Ramadan. Highly recommended.
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 | Standard Arabic Audio Cassette Set: An Elementary-Intermediate Course by Eckehard Schulz
Buy new: $34.82 / Used from: $16.33 Matching cassettes. Get 'em or get a native speaker as a tutor
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 | Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach: Student Book (Yale Language Series) by Lutfi Hussein
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $15.98 The BEST book available for Levantine Arabic. Absolutely NOT for beginners! Get about 3 solid months of colloquial Arabic before tackling this book.
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| Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach: Audiotapes (Yale Language Series) by Lutfi Hussein
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $49.50 A companion to the book. Only tapes 8 - 10 match the printed dialogues.
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 | Media Arabic by Julia Ashtiany
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $15.20 A great book for intermediate students interested in Media Arabic. Good sections on idiom with many examples, including war reporting. Know what verb forms I - X are, plus masdar.
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 | The Connectors in Modern Standard Arabic by Nariman Al-Warraki
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $11.04 A good book when trying to decipher written structures in MSA. Useful at the intermediate level. Contains many examples
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