Arabic for Dummies (Arabic and English Edition)

My 32 year old son wanted this book. He says it s great for learning Arabic, with one exception. He also needed the Arabic Practical Dictionary to go along with it. In less than a month, he was speaking sentences in Arabic. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn to speak Arabic. Just be sure to also order the Arabic Practical Dictionary by Nicholas Awde.

Great Reference Guide f to Help Beginners!I ordered this book for my son who is just beginning to learn Arabic. He was very impressed with it and says its just what he needed as a reference. The explanations and examples were clear, concise and easy to understand.

It is a great book if you are going to travel and need a quick guide for interaction with people. I was looking for a book that would show me how to read and write Arabic text. Thank You Pete

Not a bad guide with all components, but if you just want to listen and learn at times, the CD has zero English translations. It is useless if you are not actively looking at the book, which is hard to do if you are driving and want to get in some practice. Poorly thought out for a language learning audio tool.

Very useful in my journey of learning Arabic. I didn’t remember much from my class but this truly did help me with the pronunciation and learning of vocabulary.

It covers quite alot of written Modern Standard Arabic. I use this along with Pimsleur.

This book would not be bad if it didn't rely to heavily on transliteration. It really should have words and phrases written in Arabic with the transliteration on the bottom in English. Distracts from learning the language. Otherwise it would be a good book broken out with great content in a coherent progression. I just couldn't get over the transliteration to actually benefit from this book.

I am keeping this book in my crazy library to read and work through again. It simplifies a complicated language some.

I always try to use Dummy guides for subjects i know nothing about. After using them to learn VB6 and C# for work, i decided to fulfil a life long aim and start to learn Arabic. This guide is extremely easy to read and is gentle in the way it introduces you to the language. As the previous review states, there is very little written Arabic text here, which is why i bought a seperate book 'First Thousand Words in Arabic' (which was shown as a book deal) to compliment what i was learning verbally.This book is definately useful for those who have no knowledge whatsoever, but for those who know some Arabic already it may prove too basic.In all i enjoy this book (I'm still using it), and would recommend this and any Dummies Guide to those wishing to start out on a totally new subject.

I will discard it, because if I resell it, people would mistakenly think it has Arabic font and waste their shipping fee. I is better to remove from online shopping circulation.

The book is okay. I kinda skipped through the first pages because I already knew how to read and the basics, but If you don't know any Arabic whatsoever I would NOT recommend this version for absolute beginners. The words are written with Latin letters in a way that makes them impossible to pronounce correctly and the pronunciation part of the Latin letters is even worse. I sometimes have to Google the words just so I can pronounce them correctly. There are also a lot of misspells and wrong use of words. The audio in the CD sometimes uses other words than written in the book.I instantly regretted buying this version. If you can read a little Arabic BUY THE NEWER version (2nd edition). It is written partly with Arabic letters, making it easier to practice the reading while learning. Moreover the "latinization" of the Arabic words are also more correctly written, so you actually have the opportunity to pronounce the words perfectly. I have had a glance at the newer version and it seems like the author is using some better words for of the translations. Therefore the two versions are a bit different from each other.However the book is not entirely hopeless. It is very simple, and gives you a lot of useful grammatical tables and useful sentences. It has some great explanations of the Arabic culture, and it is not boring at all. I still use it to learn and I have learned a great deal from it. It is also categorized into different topics with minimal grammar making it more fun to learn. But be sure you pick the right version because a returning/trading it CAN be expensive.

This book makes learning Arabic simple. But the problem is it mainly provides the Latin written of Arabic. It make readers easy to recognise, but the end the result will be the readers cannot read Arabic. If it provides Arabic alongside the Latin, it would be much better.

I knew this was not going to be as simple as it sounds - "learn some Arabic" - but the book does make it easier to follow. The book containes full help on pronunciation and how to actually SAY the words - very helpful.