Arabic Book Reviews - Mastering Arabic : Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar

Ustadha Marukh reviews her latest books and resources for the Budding Arabic Student
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[@jamesmclay9075]

I'm glad to have found this video, normally when I google booknames + review, I get an amazon page with one person complaining about the condition it was shipped in. Thanks for being clear about the ups and downs of the book and tapes, I've been hunting for Arabic resources, and being on quite a tight budget I've been worried I'm going to buy a substandard resource. I appreciate this a lot!

[@evemadarka2542]

I'm buying this book! I'm so excited to be learning Arabic in a few months!!!

[@nitsrah]

This is an excellent book. I have it and the authors are amazing.

[@jamesbarry623]

Thanks for the review. It is a perfect book for beginners for the reason you said - it is MSA and avoids dialect (although it is mostly Egypt focused) - as well as it not being too formal, as in it doesn't use case endings (although it teaches them) which is more for intermediate learners who want to read literature or the Qur'an. Another beginner's book, Ahlan wa Sahlan, uses case endings and I found that too hard as a beginner. As you mentioned, you only get out of it what you put in. As I am self learning, I have studied it slowly 30 minutes a day, with revision of the week's learning on the weekend, and a second revision four weeks after that (I know it's hard to find time, I have kids too, but let's face it, we're on youtube, so we have time). My only criticism is the videos. Other than Mahmoud, who is I'm guessing one of the authors, the other people in the videos (who are native Arabic speakers) at times mumble and make mistakes which makes it harder to follow what they are saying in places. Finally, this book has a sequel, Mastering Arabic 2, which I'll be going to once I've finished Mastering Arabic 1. They also have made a very good book on Egytian dialect - Colloquial Egyptian Arabic - which I highly recommend if, like me, you are learning MSA and dialect together.

[@arabiccompprograming5161]

its a good review, but there are a number of books under the title mastering arabic ?

[@nitsrah]

In the title she named the 2 authors so you can find the specific Mastering Arabic book. And you will choose the levels you need..

[@hichemabdellali9440]

Could you share with me the CDs listening tracks, I already bought the book but without the CDs :/

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