Arabic Today: A Student, Business and Professional Course in Spoken and Written Arabic [With CDROM] Book

Introduction vii

Pronunciation ix

Part I Spoken Arabic

Lesson 1 Greetings 3

Professions and countries

Gender and Number

Pronouns

'to be'

Adjectives

Lesson 2 At the Airport 11

Travel

Gender of nouns

Article

Adjectives

Prepositions

Possessives

'to have'

Lesson 3 In the Hotel 19

Construct

Triliteral verb

Past tense of sound and initial- w verbs

Sound nouns

Transition vowel

Lesson 4 In Town 29

Demonstratives

Object pronouns

Indirect Statement

Numbers 0-10

Negative

Adverbs

Lesson 5 In the Office 39

Administration

Present tense and imperative of sound and initial- w verbs

Numbers 11-199

Interrogatives

Indirect questions

Regional variations

Lesson 6 A Visit to Friends 49

Egyptian speech

House and family

Past tense of hollow verbs

Clauses of circumstance

Broken plural

Continuous past tense

Regional variations

Lesson 7 On the Telephone 61

Present tense and imperative of hollow verbs

'may/can/must/might'

Numbers above 199

Fractions and percentage

Time

Days of the week

Indirect Command

Regional variations

Lesson 8 Teaching and Training 71

Doubled and final-weak verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Relative clauses

Interrogatives

'some/same/all'

Ordinal numbers

Activities, instruments and places

Regional variations

Lesson 9 In the Restaurant 83

Food and drink

Collective nouns

Verbs of Form II

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Indefinite pronouns

Lesson 10 A New Project 93

Meetings

Participles

Verbal nouns

Future tense

Calendar

Lesson 11 Visit to a Factory 103

Levantine speech

Industry and economy

Verbs of Forms III and IV

Pluperfect tense

Conditional andconcessive sentences

Regional variations

Adverbs

Participial verb

Lesson 12 At the Surgery 117

Body and health

Verbs of Forms V and VI

Absolute object

Special adjectives

Quadriliteral verb

Expressions of circumstance

Age

Regional variations

Lesson 13 A Visit to the Village 129

Geography and climate

Verbs of Forms VII and VIII

Abstract nouns

Reflexive

Passive

Diminutives

Lesson 14 In the Market 141

Shopping

Clothes

Verbs of Forms IX and X

Lesson 15 The News 149

Politics and international relations

Broadcasting

Written forms

Recapitulation of verb, Forms I to X

Part II Written Arabic

Lesson 16 Reading and Writing 159

Alphabet

Article

Sound plural and dual endings

Doubled letters

Lesson 17 Reading and Writing 169

Alphabet

Lesson 18 Reading and Writing 177

Alphabet

Arabic transcription

Pointing

Lesson 19 Insurance 187

Full and short pronunciation

Nouns and adjectives

Possessive suffixes

Prepositions

Pronoun suffixes

Lesson 20 Transport and Communications 197

Subject pronouns

Verbs with sound final root letter

Dictionary

Lesson 21 Personnel Management 205

Object pronouns

Complements

Negatives

Interrogatives

Sentence structure

Future

Lesson 22 Petroleum 215

Demonstratives

Clauses of purpose

Auxiliary verbs

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Lesson 23 From the Newspapers 223

Relative pronouns

Final-weak verbs

Dictionary

Lesson 24 Correspondence 235

ruq9a script

Numbers

Time

Calendar

Anomalous nouns and adjectives

Lesson 25 The Transfer of Technology 249

Auxiliaries with the present tense

Doubly weak verbs

Lesson 26 The United Nations 257

Expressions with the jussive

Conditional sentences

Passive

Improper agreement

Equivalent spoken and written forms

Key to exercises 269

Index of words 281

Arabic, Part I 281

English, Parts I and II 309

Arabic, Part II 339

Grammar index 351