Colloquial Levantine Arabic

Colloquial Levantine Arabic draws on all that experience to offer beginners and established students a user-friendly introduction to speaking Levantine Arabic.
This book is the result of a decade of teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, including Foreign Office diplomats, CNN journalists, and students from leading universities at Yell, Oxford, and SOAS.
After testing and refining many learning strategies and methods, THIS BOOK IS BORN.

If you want to learn to speak and understand everyday Colloquial Levantine Spoken Arabic quickly whilst also giving yourself a strong foundation in the Arabic script, structure and grammar this is the book for you. Having a strong foundation in Colloquial Spoken Arabic, including the written script, will provide an excellent base for you to later focus on Modern Standard Arabic, and in particular Media Arabic. It is the answer to the Students' age-old dilemma of whether to study Modern Standard Arabic or just colloquial. It will enable you to actually communicate effectively in Arabic across a range of situations. The book is based on learning the Arabic script; the best foundation for learning any type of Arabic, but is focused on ensuring you start conversing quickly and confidently.

• An easy and simple way to pronounce, read and write the Arabic alphabet.
• Effective & practical exercises to build up Sentences in Levantine Arabic.
• Clear exercises to get you talking quickly.
• Structured explanation of the most commonly used colloquial Levantine verbs, phrases and vocabulary.
• Offers a gradual introduction to Arabic grammar, with easy-to-follow explanations.
• Levantine Arabic phrases, proverbs and vocabulary to help you sound like an Arab, with pronunciation, and examples.
• Conjugation of verbs in Levantine Arabic with examples.
• The most common Arabic dialogues in Levantine Arabic to help you communicate effectively and confidently in any setting when you are in the Middle East.
• Suitable for studying at home or in the classroom.

• Recent Reviews
  "Right, so. I'm a complete beginner when it comes to Arabic. So after a little of Googling, it seemed that "Mastering Arabic" was the way to go. So on Day 1, I took it to work with me, and my friend (who is an Arabic speaker) says "nobody speaks like that, that book is pretty much useless unless you want to sound like Shakespeare." Back to Square One. So I trawl through the internet, and come across 'Nassra Arabic Method'. Short, easy videos explaining 1 phrase per video. He talks about "not learning Fus-ha (Modern Standard Arabic to us normal folk) but learning what people ACTUALLY speak"

• The author introduces phrases and key pieces of vocabulary to get you to start speaking immediately and slowly introduces grammatical concepts over time only when they are needed. It contains reference dialogues at the end of the book which is used in everyday situations such as buying items in a shop or having a telephone conversation and phrases which are difficult to come by in other texts but exceptionally important. Fully recommended!