Description
Book SynopsisLooking for a convenient way to build your Arabic vocabulary without drills, books, homework or long lists to memorize?
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In this five-hour intermediate level audio course, Michel Thomas Method teachers Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar introduce over 600 new words and everyday phrases and the tools to allow you to create thousands more through the application of simple rules for building more words for concepts, people, places, adjectives and verbs. Learning alongside two genuine students, you will acquire essential language building blocks which allow you to increase your vocabulary in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out answers for yourself. You will learn at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary. You'll stick with it, because you'll love it.
WHY IS IT SO SUCCESSFUL?
Unlike most vocabulary courses which give you lists of words to memorize, the Michel Thomas Method based Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course allows you to further extend your vocabulary by unlocking what you already know. The course is designed to take advantage of the logical construction of Arabic, in which by altering words in predictable ways (e.g. by mimicking word patterns or adding regular prefixes and suffixes), you will exponentially build up your knowledge and understanding of the language.
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
Whether you have learned from other Michel Thomas Method courses or are simply looking for a new approach to help improve your proficiency, the high-beginner to Intermediate level Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course will introduce you to a unique way of acquiring language that will significantly boost your confidence in your ability to speak and understand Arabic. It is a Phase 2 course and should be used after you have completed the Intermediate Arabic Course. The course teaches Egyptian Arabic, as this variety is understood throughout the Arabic-speaking world owing to its dissemination through film and popular culture.
What's in the Course?*
Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course includes five audio CDs. The booklet is available to download from www.michelthomas.com.
*Note that the course content is the same as the previously entitled Arabic Vocabulary Builder+ course, but does not include a CD-ROM.
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Table of Contents
- : INTRODUCTION
- : Part 1: Arabic root system and word patterns
- : Overview of Arabic roots: three root sounds
- : How to identify the root
- : Word patterns
- : Descriptive words (adjectives)
- •: The 'kareem' pattern
- •: The 'kasbaan' pattern
- •: The 'maHmood' pattern
- •: The 'kuwaiti' pattern
- : Comparing: the 'ashraf' pattern
- : Places: the 'madrasa' pattern
- : Professions: the 'fallaaH' pattern
- : Instruments: the 'muftaaH' pattern
- : Experts: the 'shagh-gheel' pattern
- : Part 2: Plurals
- : External
- •: -een ('fallaaHeen')
- •: -aat ('sandawitchaat')
- : Internal
- •: The 'bunook' pattern
- •: The 'ahraam' pattern
- •: The 'kutub' pattern
- •: The 'gimaal' pattern
- •: The 'falaafil' pattern
- •: The 'Oh la la!' pattern
- : Part 3: Arabic verbs
- : Present/future stems
- •: shrab drink
- •: fham understand
- •: ktib write
- •: dris study
- •: ftaH open
- •: lcab play
- •: shoof see
- •: rooH go
- •: zoor visit
- •: Tbukh cook
- : Past stems
- •: shirib drank
- •: fihim understood
- •: katab wrote
- •: daras studied
- •: fataH opened
- •: licib played
- •: shaaf/shuf saw
- •: raaH/ruH went
- •: zaar/zur visited
- •: Tabakh cooked
- : Verb varieties (forms)
- •: Introduction
- •: The 'fahhim' variety
- •: The 'it' variety ('itkallim')
- •: Recognizing other varieties
- •: the 'muHammad' pattern
- : Part 4: Two common roots
- : r/k/b the 'riding' root
- •: yirkab/rikib (to ride, eg bus, horse)
- •: raakib (riding, passenger)
- •: rakkeeb (expert rider)
- •: markoob (a mount, donkey + archaic 'pair of shoes'!)
- •: markib, maraakib (boat)
- •: marakbi (boatman)
- •: yirakkib (cause to ride, to mount, to fix), also cheat at cards
- •: yitrakkib (to be fixed)
- : kh/r/g the 'exiting' root
- •: yukhrug/kharag (to exit, go out)
- •: makhrag (exit, way out, place of exit)
- •: khaarig (going out)
- •: yitkharrag (to graduate)
- •: mitkharrag min (a graduate of)
- •: yistakhrag (to extract - to seek to take out?)
- •: mustakhrig (extractor)
- •: mustakhrag (extracted)
- •: mukhrig (director [of film])
- : CONCLUSION
