 | Kullu Tamam!: An Introduction to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic by Manfred Woidich
Buy new: £18.86 / Used from: £13.98 I own this one, quite a good colloquial book written simply and with alot of vocabulary to learn. Two issues I find..1)Written in romanized script mostly 2)Little audio for a spoken language.
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 | Arabic (Teach Yourself) by J.R. Smart
Buy used from: £2.29 I own this one, rather helpful and comprehensive. Follow it well and you will achieve alot, more focussed on reading newspapers and understanding written Arabic articles than speaking, as is MSA.
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 | Teach Yourself Beginner's Arabic Script (TY Beginner's Scripts) by John Mace
Buy new: £5.83 / Used from: £2.96 I own this one, and to be honest I adore it. Previously misunderstood concepts were cleared up in this book, and it also teaches alot of grammar so you can recognise word shapes :)
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 | Mastering Arabic Script: A Guide to Handwriting (Palgrave Masters Series (Languages)) by Jane Wightwick
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £5.33 I own this one, very very easy to understand and follow book. Handwriting by the head of the Cairo University of Calligraphy so well instructed. Step by step and learn fast
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 | Say it in Arabic: Colloquial Egyptian (Dover say it series) by Farouk El-Baz
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £2.90 I own this one, a tiny little book with many key phrases in colloquial Egyptian; transliteration used instead of Arabic letters which can confuse one due to different transliteration rules.
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 | Instant Arabic: How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words by Fethi Mansouri
Buy new: £3.66 / Used from: £1.24 I own this one, a handy little book with many of the key words you will come across in Arabic; written in roman script and with Arabic script too.
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 | Mastering Arabic 1 (Palgrave Master Series (Languages)) by Jane Wightwick
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £9.56 I own this one, a very helpful book! Clear, practical and with humerous little illustrations a very good one!
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 | Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar (Verbs and Essentials of Grammar Series) by Jane Wightwick
Buy used from: £7.72 I own this one, good guide for recognising word and verb patterns better, I recommend.
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 | Build Your Arabic Vocabulary: 1,000 Key Words to Move Beyond Beginner Arabic by Haroon Shirwani
Buy used from: £7.56 I own this one, a good vocabulary database with relevent and easy-to-learn material.
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 | PDQ Arabic (Linguaphone Pdq) by Jane Wightwick
Buy new: £23.96 / Used from: £15.98 I ownt this one, speakers throughout and a quick introduction to the script..is quite useful if travelling to egypt but more concerned with travellers talk.
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 | First 1000 Words in Arabic by Heather Amery
Buy used from: £4.00 I want this one, it looks so cute and it will be fun to learn a new language like a kid again.
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 | Media Arabic: An Essential Vocabulary by Elisabeth Kendall
Buy new: £7.26 / Used from: £5.15 I want this one, good for understanding what you will read in the Arabic news and you probably won't find vocabulary like this in any other book.
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 | Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Kristen Brustad
Buy new: £33.28 / Used from: £24.97 I want this one, looks very structured but rather expensive.
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 | Arabic for Dummies by Amine Bouchentouf
Buy new: £8.45 / Used from: £7.00 I want this one, not too expensive and includes a CD.
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 | 501 Arabic Verbs (501 Verbs): Conjugated in All Forms by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £9.10 I want this one, full of vocabulary etc. etc. good resource.
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 | Mastering Arabic Grammar (Palgrave Masters Series (Languages)) by Jane Wightwick
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £5.25 I want this one, to go along with the companian books Mastering Arabic and Mastering Arabic Handwriting.. looks good because the other in the series were.
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