The best-selling Alif Baa is the first volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program & is now available in a new third edition In this new version of the introduction to Arabic letters & sounds English-speaking students will find an innovative integration of colloquial & formal (spoken & written) Arabic Together the book & new companion website provide learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of Arabic write its letters & begin speaking Arabic including interactive self-correcting exercises to enhance learning The companion website also gives instructors additional online grading options It features four-color design throughout the book features over 100 illustrations & photographs; gives learners & instructors color-coded options for the variety of language they wish to learn in speaking Egyptian Levantine or formal Arabic (MSA); introduces over 200 basic vocabulary words in all three forms of spoken & written Arabic side by side including expressions for polite social interaction & activates them in interactive homework exercises & classroom groupwork;
Includes:: video dialogues in Egyptian & Levantine filmed in Cairo & Damascus;
Includes:: video footage of an Arabic calligrapher capsules on Arabic culture & images of street signs from Morocco Egypt & Lebanon;
Includes:: new English-Arabic & Arabic-English glossaries searchable in the companion website