Living Language Arabic, Complete Edition by Author’s Name

Die Lehrbuchreihe von Livinglanguage ist wirklich klasse. Arabisch ist mittlerweile der dritte Kurs und ich bin begeistert. Vllt liegt es auch daran, weil es mir großen Spaß bereitet Sprachen zu lernen und dabei zu entdecken, wie sich diese entwickelt haben. Gerade Arabisch hat einen enormen Einfluss auf die europäischen Sprachen, zumindest, gehabt. Wären die Araber nicht in Südspanien gewesen, dann hätte es wohl keine Renaissance gegeben. Den Arabern und Juden, die bis zum Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts in Spanien lebten haben wir viel von unserem heutigen Wissen zu verdanken. Auch das ist doch wieder erwägenswert, wenn man sich anschickt andere Kulturen zu verteufeln.

This is one of the best things i have purchased in my life i am so happy with it.
First of all it comes in a beginner, intermediate and advanced boom ranging from 200-300 pages per book. within the course there are word recalls,quizzes,review dialogues, progress bars and a summary of what you have learnt.
On top of this you are provided with 9 CD`s that reads the text and helps with the pronunciation of the words.
It also comes with a script guide so you know what you are reading.
i have began to access the online products that you can use like flashcards.
i definitely recommend this product thank you living language and hopefully in the future i will be able to use these products to learn a new language

There are so many language programs out there. I am very glad I got this one. It is very organized and very effective if you follow the program. I feel I must say nothing is easy so if you are looking for something easy studying a language isn’t it. If you are willing to focus and really stop and check out how this program is organized you will be amazed at the way they have written this program. It is a step by step building block upon building block. That is the best way to learn. The audio is very good quality. I heard another program’s audio and it was terrible, it made me appreciate this programs audio. As with any CDs it will get scratched somehow or the other sooner or later so I have made back up copies of my CDs.

I have spent a few minutes to make up a sheet for this program. It is a check off sheet. I find this is a great help in keeping track of my studies. I do this because along with this program I do some other online studies too to supplement my studies. I especially had to go outside of this program to get help with the script. I think some people will be great without doing that but I am kind of an extremely thorough person and like to overdo things but that works for me. On this study check off sheet I just followed the course and made it.

DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO SAYS THIS PROGRAM IS NOT GOOD. This really is an awesome program and you will get back even more than you put in. The price cant be beat. The set up of the program makes it very easy to follow and retain. Do not forget to go to their website and play the games and use the flash cards. You will even retain more that way too.

If you wish copy and paste the check off sheet i made below and follow it. Just check off each that apply as you go along the program. Each lesson has two sections. For example lesson 1 has a section titled Vocabulary Builder 1 and another section titled Vocabulary Builder 2, seems like all the lessons are like this. I actually didn’t check all the lessons didn’t have the time but what I checked that is what I saw. The check off sheet may not make sense to you when you look at it right now but when you get the program and start using it and see how the program is set up it will make sense.

In each section there are a series of lessons building upon each other. I do a check off sheet for each lesson. It feels pretty good to check off what I have done and even better to sign off at the end when I know I have nailed the lessons. Yea. I sign my check off sheet. It feels good to know its done and sealed in my memory. So have fun and best wishes on your arabic studies.

LIVING LANGUAGE Check off study sheet

Name_____________________

What Language?______________

What level of living language? Basic/Essential____Intermediate_____Advanced____

Living Language lesson plan and guide Lesson_________
Date Lesson Started_____________

Check marks to all that apply write in any feelings between the lines
Read introduction to section 1 of lesson

Listen to vocabulary builder 1

Do vocabulary 1 practice by practicing what’s heard in vocabulary builder 1

Do greetings and pronunciation/grammar builder to enhance vocabulary 1

Take it further with learning alphabet scripts and actual writing for vocabulary builder 1

Add words you find hard to remember on paper/flash cards/stickie notes and practice till remembered

Go to living language site and do vocabulary 1 section of this lesson

Find and converse with online friends and or offline friends to speak the language to help with listening and pronunciation

Read introduction to section 2 of lesson

Listen to vocabulary builder 2

Do vocabulary 2 practice by practicing what’s heard in vocabulary builder 2

Do greetings and pronunciation/grammar builder to enhance vocabulary 2

Take it further with learning scripts or writing language for vocabulary builder 2

Add words you find hard to remember on paper/flash cards/stickie notes and practiced until remembered

Work out 1—listening comprehension exercise

Review and take it further with Arabic script

Bring it all together conversation

Take it further focusing on new words

Work out 2—-practice all learned in the entire lesson the two sections vocabulary building 1 and 2

Drive it home lessons to reinforce what you have learned

Check the parting words. Did you get to all the goals of the lesson

Take it further a little extra added words

Word recall. Triple check and triple reinforce the full understanding of the lesson

Write in any other material you use to help with lessons online or books

Write in overall feeling about your achievements. Where you feel you are strong and where you feel you need to be improved.

Converse with online friends and or offline friends to speak the language to help with listening and pronunciation

Friends Name____________
Where from________________

Friends Name____________
Where from________________

Friends Name____________
Where from________________

Date you finished lesson knowing all the points of the lessons____________

Because I’ve been a sailor for more than 3 decades, for years I’ve been in-and-out of Arabic-speaking ports. I’ve watched Dubai transform from a sleepy little town, into a major world city. I started learning Arabic in the 70s, and continued off-and-on, as I transferred to ships in that part of the world. I’ve been lucky enough to benefit from having *actual* Arabic speakers within reach, but this hasn’t always been the case. Some books ‘with audio’ will only include the audio for the conversational parts of the book. This doesn’t help you when you want to learn individual parts of speech, or learn how to pronounce the different forms of a verb. In the beginning, I would pronounce a noun or a verb form the way I *thought* the book was trying to tell me, but then when I actually got to Bahrain, or to the United Arab Emirates, I’d discover that I’d ‘guessed’ wrong. The Hugo’s books came close to letting you hear everything, but the Living Language ‘Complete’ series tops even them. I’m retired now, and I’m trying to recapture my fluency. The Complete Arabic books have a nice progression from the basics, introducing grammatical subjects gradually, and even *more* importantly, pronounces each and every noun declension or verb conjugation individually. I wish this course had been around in the 70s!

Another commentator on this page mentioned as a ‘con’ that the course didn’t teach any of the dialects. Here’s my view on that. I don’t think that the commentator knew just how many dialects of Arabic there are: there are dozens! The Arabic of Western North Africa — Maghrebi Arabic — itself has differences within the countries that make-up this broad term, such as Moroccan or Tunisian Arabic. And the Arabic spoken in Cairo or Lebanon or Dubai or Riyadh differs from Maghrebi Arabic, and from each other, too. If dialects were covered in this course, it would need to be about 5 times as large as it currently is.

But, there has developed a type of ‘standard’ Arabic, used in TV news broadcasts. This is being called ‘Formal Spoken Arabic,’ and as far as I can tell, that is what is being taught in the Complete Arabic course. This means that the Arabic you learn here, in this course, will be easily understood in virtually every Arab country you could hope to visit; not so if you’d learned a specific dialect.