Product Description

The all-in-one Arabic-language resource to sharpen your verb and grammar skills

In addition to providing essential concepts regarding Arabic verbs and grammar, this book includes an index of the 300 most popular verbs, which can be cross-referenced with the numerous verb tables appearing throughout the book. This comprehensive Arabic tutorial contains plenty of examples using contemporary language to give you a taste of real-life situations. Each unit focuses on a single verbal or grammatical concept, providing concise yet comprehensive explanations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162324 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English, Arabic
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover

About the Author
Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar are highly experienced language teachers and authors.

Customer Reviews

Great book
Using this to accompany the 'mastering arabic' books by Gaafar and Wightwick, is a useful addition to learning arabic for an improver to intermediate learner.

Best introduction to verbs
I saw the following review of this book on amazon.com which I thought was a good description:

"If you don't study Arabic script first, this book is going to be unnecessarily difficult. Otherwise, it is the best introduction to verbs I have found. It is a short book (123 pages + the Appendixes and Verb Index). The chapters are clearly organized and with easily understandable explanations focusing on verb grammar without any distractions.

Key words in lessons are transliterated (using a easily comprehensible system) along with the Arabic text.

The book also has something that I have not found in any other Arabic language instruction books: It has two verb indexes (Arabic-English and English-Arabic) listing 400 common verbs that are used in the lessons. This is something I have been very frustrated in searching for--a list of commonly used verbs to study that I can access through English-Arabic as well as Arabic-English. Additionally, each verb entry in the index has 1) the 3 or 4 letter root, 2) the two principle parts, 3) transliteration of the principle parts, 4) verb type (for example: I, defective), and 5) page in the book that uses the verb.

Since I have spent a lot of time searching and not found any verb index nearly as helpful, the verb index alone is a study tool that seems worth the price of the whole book!"

Poor Grammar
I found this a deeply disappointing book. Explanations of particularly difficult aspects of grammar are explained in such a tortuous manner that they make little sense. Yet another book that fails through lack of adequate proof reading.