Alif Baa Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (Third Edition, with DVD)

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Learning Arabic is hard... This book doesn't make it easier, exactly, but I am actually learning the alphabet and able to write so it must be doing something correctly. Brustad and Al-Batal wrote the Al-Kitaab series while they were associate professors of Arabic at the University of Texas at Austin, [3] where they taught for years. They now live in Lebanon, Al-Batal's homeland, and work at the American University of Beirut. Al-Tonsi is a senior lecturer at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. [3] Texts [ edit ]

Bonus: it may surprise you to learn the Arabic characters make up the written alphabet for a bunch of different languages, including Persian, Malayalam, Urdu, Central Kurdish, Pashto, and Uyghur. So by learning the Arabic alphabet, you’ll build a reading base for other languages, as well! Arabic alphabet overview: 2 important questions, answered How many letters are there in the Arabic alphabet?Alif Baa Arabic offers specialized courses in the sciences of the Qur’an and Tajweed, A license in memorizing the Noble Qur’an with the transmitted chain to the Prophet.

The first edition of the Al-Kitaab series included materials in both formal Modern Standard Arabic (also called Fusha) and Egyptian Arabic. [16] At the time, this was unusual, as most Arabic instructional texts taught only Fusha, or, less commonly, only a colloquial dialect. [16] The current third edition includes Fusha, Egyptian, and Levantine Arabic. [15] Storyline [ edit ] Arabic uses a system called Abjad, where each letter stands for a consonant (i.e., there are no vowel letters). Kristen Brustad; Mahmoud al-Batal; Abbas al-Tonsi (2013). Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al'Arabiyya, Part Two: A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic (3rded.). Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-962-1. [2]The joining of the Arabic Alphabet can be a difficult subject to master. The reason for this is that the way a letter joins depends on: