Ahlan wa-sahlan : li-taʻalum al-ʻArabīyah waẓīfīyan lil-mubtadiʾīn / Mahdī al-ʻUsh = Ahlan wa sahlan : functional modern standard Arabic for beginners / Mahdi Alosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alosh, Mahdi.

Series:

Yale language series

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Arabic language.

Genre:

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Physical Description:

xxv, 585 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + 10 computer optical discs (4 3/4 in.)

Other Title:

Ahlan wa sahlan : functional modern standard Arabic for beginners

Functional modern standard Arabic for beginners

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English and Arabic.

Summary:

This textbook is designed to cover the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. Accompanied by an instructor's manual and an audio program, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0300058543

0300058594

OCLC:

50663279