* Contains Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries and reference charts as well as a new grammar indexAl-Kitaab Part One with Website (Lingco): A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Student's Edition 3rd Edition is written by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi and published by Georgetown University Press. * Introduces students to Egyptian colloquial through scenes based on the main narrative to promote the use of shared vocabulary and structure of the two registers to increase listening comprehension skills * Reinforces grammar and vocabulary through extensive classroom and homework exercises that provide constant review and expand to challenge students as their skills develop * Introduces grammar using spiraling and inference, challenging students to discover the grammar of the language by means of analogy, problem solving, and educated guessing * Develops reading skills through the use of composed texts derived from the main narrative and authentic texts from newspapers and journals * Presents narrative-based content through audio and video media rather than written text to develop meaning-focused language processing skills, utilizing two main characters and their extended families * Immediately incorporates extensive use of authentic materials for reading, listening, and grammatical practice, thus relating abstract grammatical concepts to practical skills * Develops all language-related skills including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge New video materials also feature interviews with Egyptians (subtitled in English) about various aspects of Arab culture, such as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and Christian traditions, social clubs and their significance, and more. In addition, a short dialogue in Egyptian colloquial Arabic appears at the end of each lesson. The DVDs also contain substantially more material that exposes the learner to Egyptian Arabic: students have the options of seeing and hearing the video of each lesson in both Modern standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. The basic texts have been refilmed with a new cast of actors. Audio tracks for vocabulary sections now allow students to hear a new word followed by a sentence using it in context with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures, enabling students to build new vocabulary skills while reviewing old material.
The organization of the chapters has been adapted the reflect the most current pedagogical developments.
Providing approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction, parts of this revised edition are updated with contemporary selections for reading comprehension. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of 79.95. This particular edition is in a Paperback format. With new video material and revised and updated text and exercises, the bound-in and revised DVDs supersede both the former CD audio set and video DVD previously available only as separate items-making this singular volume a comprehensive whole for those immersed in the early and intermediate stages of learning Arabic. The title of this book is Al-Kitaab fii Taallum al-Arabiyya - A Textbook for Beginning Arabic and it was written by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi. Al-Kitaab: Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic.