Arabic for Non-native Speakers

Why this book!

  1. You will be offered a firm grounding in Modern Standard Arabic.
  2. This book will enable you to gain an advantage and authority when using Arabic in different situations.
  3. The book has been customized and tailored to meet your basic and standard demands.
  4. The book in equipped with many illustrations and examples as well as numerous practice exercises for a better understanding of the presented material.
  5. If your goal is to understand and use Arabic fluently and expressively, Arabic For Non-Native Speakers
  6. will get you started and will ultimately provide you with a sense of achievement; IT will prove to be your gateway to appreciating and communicating in Arabic.

Please, reflect on the following notes about Arabic.

  • If you’re studying the Arabic language to be able to communicate informally with friends, then you should be aware of the fact that there are as many as 30 or more colloquial (local) dialects of Arabic, and a dialect which fits in one place is in no doubt deemed to stand useless in other places, especially those dialects of the Arab countries of central and west northern Africa.
  • There are many Arabic dialects that are most popular and most widely recognized, but there is one version that is taught in schools and used by the media across the Arab world.
  • However, Arabic can be classified into three forms:
  • Classical Arabic (the language of literature)
  • Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) (The language spoken by many individuals as a means of communication)
  • Local dialects (These are different accents of Arabic that are common in each Arab country; there could be more than one dialect in one Arab country).
  • Arabic is the official language in many countries and is spoken as the mother tongue of over 450 million people across 25 countries.
  • In addition to this, more than many Muslims can read the Arabic script even if many of them can’t understand the language.
  • Muslims of all nationalities, such as Americans, Turkish, Malaysians, Indonesians, Europeans, and other nationalities are familiar with the Arabic script to some extent.
  • Arabic is also the language of the Holy Qur’an.
  • Arabic is also one of the official languages of the United Nations.
  • Other people learn the Arabic language for formal reasons.
  • Not all students are Muslims or even Arabs, and subsequently they have not been reading Arabic and writing Arabic script since childhood.
  • Arabic belongs to the Semitic language family and this makes it different in many aspects from English which is considered a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects, in addition to that Arabic is different from other languages across the globe.
  • The Arabic grammar is different from other languages.
  • There is a large potential for errors of interference when Arab learners produce written or spoken English.
  • To be universally recognized, the answer would be to study (Modern standard Arabic) which OUR book is meant to offer.
  • Modern standard Arabic presents conformity and is accepted in all Arab and Muslim countries regardless the dialects they speak in.