Ahlan Wa Sahlan: An Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic [Textbook only] (Yale Language) - Hardcover

Alosh, Mahdi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300058543 ISBN 13: 9780300058543

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This textbook is designed to cover the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. Accompanied by an instructor's manual and an audio programme, it will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic. The text presents an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the U.S., and Michael, an American student studying in Cairo. In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture is experienced by an American student. The text also provides information about the geography of the Arab world, prominent characters in history, festivities in Arab culture, the media, daily life, and the family. Exercises in comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing attend to both form and meaning and develop functional abilities and knowledge about the Arabic sound, writing, and language systems.

About this title

Review:

"A major advance in the way Arabic is taught and an outstanding new addition to the available materials on the subject." Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania

About the Author:

Mahdi Alosh is associate professor of Arabic at The Ohio State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300058543
• ISBN 13: 9780300058543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 612