Kallimni ‘Arabi Bishweesh: A Beginners’ Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 1

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Great book, good for teaching.

This book is written in Arabic so I’m not sure how you could think it’s suitable for someone to learn to speak arabic. I’m extremely disappointed in this purchase

I am not really convinced. The modules and exercises are pretty good in teaching important lessons BUT: 1. As some people mentioned this book is hard to use without a teacher, which the also states in the instructions. I personally think a good teaching book should be able to include exercises and explanations that students can use by themselves. Especially for adults who mostly learn by themselves. 2. It only has a CD and no online audio link. Come on! It's 2017, who owns a CD player anymore??? 3. The book doesn't lay flat. I know it sounds minor but it's so annoying to constantly hold the book down and keep it from closing. 4. The instructions in arabic are too difficult for beginner's level.

Not suitable for students. It should be clearly stated especially because the author is a teacher of such a prestigious insitution as the American University in Cairo.

This book is more for teachers than students. I bought it since my tutor is using this book, and I can read the Arabic script. I had noticed a few typos on the texts within. The dialogue scripts in the book in combination Audio CD allow for studying outside of lessons but the excersices in the book are not clear.

Book and dvd is brillant but there is no english translation at all too explain what ur saying and u need to be able to read arabic and if ur not able to read arabic then ur in trouble not for beginners tbh

This book is for an Arabic teacher to teach Egyptian Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, for that purpose it's a great book but if you are non-Arabic speaker and want to learn then it's not for you.

Nach mehreren Jahren Hocharabisch wollte ich nun den ägyptischen Dialekt erlernen und habe ich mich hierzu für Skypelektionen bei einer Sprachschule in Kairo angemeldet. Als Unterrichtsmaterial verwenden wir diese Serie. Das Buch ist durchaus für Anfänger des ägyptischen Dialektes, allerdings sollte man schon eine grundlegende Basis des Hocharabischen haben. Ja - man lernt nicht wirklich sehr viel, aber etwas sehr Grundlegendes - nämlich die Unterschiede in der Aussprache, der Satzstellung, wichtige (sehr unterschiedliche) Worte des Alltags. Wir haben für das komplette Buch (10 Lektionen) 15 Unterrichtsstunden benötigt. Band 2 greift die Themen von Band 1 nochmals auf, jedoch erst dort mit Grammatik und sehr viel ausführlicher (keine Erläuterungen, man benötigt unbedingt einen Lehrer!) Band 1 ist ein Einstieg in die ägyptische Umgangssprache und hierfür auch deutlich besser geeignet als Kalaam Gamiil, welches wir jetzt ab Band 2 jedoch wegen Wortschatz und hervorragender grammatikalischer Erläuterungen als zweites Lehrwerk hinzugenommen haben. Das Lehrwerk ist durchaus zu empfehlen, jedoch nur mit Lehrer - Autodidkatik ist hier nicht möglich.

A entrega foi rápida e veio bem embalado. Para quem está a aprender árabe é uma excelente ferramenta. Muito satisfeita, recomendo!

Regardless of what the other reviews have said, I consider this to be one of the finest book series for learning the Egyptian Dialect on the market. I have studied Arabic for 6 years, starting off with the Al-kitaab series in High School and now am studying abroad and learning Egyptian. There are no other book like this one. You cannot learn Arabic in English. You have to be immersed in the target language. and for those who cannot study abroad in the Middle East for whatever reason and thus become immersed, this is the next closest thing to total immersion. That being said, yes, the book is written entirely in the Arabic Script. I realize this comes as a surprise to some, however one cannot seriously pursue learning the Arabic language without first learning the Arabic alphabet/script. You just simply cannot learn anything past basic Arabic with transliteration in Latin script. Secondly, nobody, NOBODY speaks FusHa or MSA. Nobody. I have been to Egypt and Lebanon and converse with Arabs on campus and trust me: nobody speaks it. You will be at a total loss if you try to speak MSA. The Arabs look at you funny and realize that you're an ignorant foreigner and then proceed to talk to you in MSA very slowly, as if you were dumb and need help. Thus, this book is valuable in that it immerses one in the most commonly understood dialect of the Middle East. The CD audio is amazing and the dialogues are interesting. the speakers on the CD gradually begin to speak faster in order to attune your ears to normal conversational-level speech. The only flaw is that there is not a complete, comprehensive list of all of the vocabulary. I understand that this is because the author wants students to guess by context, but in some cases there is no way of inferring what the speaker means and you simply must have a translation. Other than that, I love this series and cant wait to finish the current book and move onto the next

- This book is for complete beginners, but there is no English or transcription... therefore having a teacher is very recommended. - All audio is downloadable from the publisher's web-site - you can do it even before buying the book (as another reviewer has mentioned - there is no archive, you have to download every single dialogue mp3, and there are around 50 of them just for Module 1) - The book was highly recommended by native Egyptian Arabic teachers and so far it does seem to be decent

Comprato usato ma praticamente nuovo di zecca, quindi grazie! lo sto usando con il mio professore di arabo da quando siamo passati dallo standard all'egiziano, siamo solo all'inizio, speriamo in bene :-)