Haroon ShirwaniBuild Your Arabic Vocabulary with Audio CD, Second Edition

If you have studied Arabic for sometime, then you know that it is a language that consists of many irregular plural nouns (aka the broken plural). I'm happy to say that I finally found a book that provides the plural form of nouns (in parentheses) alongside its singular form. Thaaaaank yoooou.

thank you so very very much for another terrific product. I'd received it the same evening as another product i'd ordered and have been up all night taking in new words. the exercises are much more than what i'd expected. it is now 1:50 am and i'm still at it!

It's nice to study with this. I just wanted to say that there are only 640 flashcards. They are quite small, 1 5/8" x 7/8". I can use them but with some dexterity. Maybe not suitable for a child. The book advertises 1000 words; the other 360 words are "further vocabulary" with no flashcards. The appear in separate tracks on the audio CD.I listen to the "core vocabulary", the ones which have flashcards, when out and about or when exercising. There is no English in the audio, so you have to start memorizing the words before you can get anything from the audio by itself. I think this is an advantage, if the audio had English then I wouldn't have time to remember on my own what each word means, and it would take longer to get through it. I guess the ideal study routine is go over the words using the audio and the book, then memorize them Arabic -> English, then start listening to the audio by itself, trying to remember what each word means, while at the same time memorizing the cards English -> Arabic. The book intro suggests using the Leitner box system, but with envelopes. I think envelopes are dumb, I just use rubber bands, with little blank cards on top of each bundle to identify it. Anyway, with this routine I have to skip over the "further vocabulary" and "useful phrases" tracks on the CD, since I had no flashcards with which to learn them beforehand.I would recommend this book, and I would buy books from the same series for other languages. I just think there is a bit of false advertising going on with the "1000 words + flashcards" on the front cover. It's really "640 words + flashcards, and 360 words without flashcards".

Really good book to learn basic Arabic vocabulary. The pop-out vocabulary flashcards in the back are especially useful.

Very useful, and I use it every day. Love the CD and the transliterations, plus the diacritial markings (voweling) of the Arabic words. An all around great tool.

This is an excellent book for anyone learning Arabic. My professor recommends it along side our other textbook.

I love exactly witch I was wanted very good quality, I get it in short time , I used a lot right know thx

Actually there is a little grammar but only to help understand the words presented in this book. There are 16 sections with photos or cartoons for those who need visual input. The accompanying CD was immediately imported into iTunes for my iPad. The CD has short sections of words for pronunciation practice. This book is not for the absolute beginner but the student who is further along in study and needs some reinforcement. I deducted a star because the flashcards are small and not preforated. The front side presents the english word and the section number of study in the book, and the back side is the Arabic word. There are exercises like crosswords and word search with the answer keys in the back. There is also a section with instructions for how to take an arabic language exam. Overall this book will be helpful in reinforcing my Rosetta Stone learning.