The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It

I’m an avid language learner and recently was seeking good sources for learning Arabic. This is not an all-in-one one stop shop book for learning, but quite honestly no one source should be expected to be that. I got so tired of reading reviews about how such and such didn’t work to make them fluent, etc. here’s my two cents - you have to put in the hard work! You have to come up with your own system. Make flash cards, learn the alphabet, listen to the language, watch YouTube, read in the language, study the grammar, practice making the sounds of the language yourself, use an app, etc. all are parts of learning.So, that said… this book is a great resource for Arabic!! I love how it actually explains each letter, how it’s written and pronounced, and breaks down the language a bit with some tips to remember as you’re learning. I read it within a couple days and now have it on my shelf of language resources to reference whenever I need to.And with respect to the person that reviewed about how it uses a passage from the Quran… quite an asinine remark to make that they should’ve used a song lyric or the Bible which has been around longer, rather than a language that they “detest”. The Quran was WRITTEN in Arabic. The Bible was written in Hebrew. And the passage was in the back as an example of Arabic prose. Would you really prefer to learn a non-Western language through a Western/English lens? If you want to truly learn a language, the culture and history is part of it, and wanting it to be “sanitized” for an American perspective is just not the right attitude. If you’re learning Hebrew, I bet there are Bible passages in some of those books!This is a good book. Don’t listen to that crazy person.

livro muito bom, de fácil compreensao... muito bem indicado por uma amiga diplomata...recomendo tambem. chegou na data certinho e muito bem conservado.

Me gustó mucho, yo estoy aprendiendo árabe por mi nueva familia política, y sólo con este libro he avanzado más que con otros sistemas.

Das Buch ist eigentlich alles, was man als Anfänger braucht um sich mit der arabischen Schrift vertraut zu machen. Das Buch führt Schritt für Schritt durch das ganze arabische Alphabet inklusive Lautschrift bzw. Aussprache. Man lernt mit dem Buch sehr einfach und didaktisch arabisch zu lesen und zu schreiben. Meines Erachtens die beste Einführung in die arabische Sprache für Anfänger. Besser geht es wohl nicht.

Simple to understand and enriching knowledge.