Arabic today : a student, business and professional course in spoken and written Arabic / John Mace.

Includes index.

Includes indexes.

Text in English and Arabic.

Introduction -- Pronunciation -- Part I. Spoken Arabic -- Lesson 1 Greetings -- Professions and countries -- Gender and Number -- Pronouns -- Adjectives -- Lesson 2 At the Airport -- Travel -- Gender of nouns -- Article -- Adjectives -- Prepositions -- Possessives -- Lesson 3 In the Hotel -- Construct -- Triliteral verb -- Past tense of sound and initial- w verbs -- Sound nouns -- Transition vowel -- Lesson 4 In Town -- Demonstratives -- Object pronouns -- Indirect Statement -- Numbers 0-10 -- Negative -- Adverbs -- Lesson 5 In the Office -- Administration -- Present tense and imperative of sound and initial- w verbs -- Numbers 11-20 -- Interrogatives -- Indirect questions -- Regional variations -- Lesson 6 A Visit to Friends -- Egyptian speech -- House and family -- Past tense of hollow verbs -- Clauses of circumstance -- Broken plural -- Continuous past tense -- Regional variations -- Lesson 7 On the Telephone -- Present tense and imperative of hollow verbs -- Numbers above -- Fractions and percentage -- Time -- Days of the week -- Indirect Command -- Regional variations -- Lesson 8 Teaching and Training -- Doubled and final-weak verbs -- Auxiliary verbs -- Relative clauses -- Interrogatives -- Ordinal numbers -- Activities, instruments and places -- Regional variations -- Lesson 9 In the Restaurant -- Food and drink -- Collective nouns -- Verbs of Form II -- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs -- Indefinite pronouns -- Lesson 10 A New Project -- Meetings -- Participles -- Verbal nouns -- Future tense -- Calendar -- Lesson 11 Visit to a Factory -- Levantine speech -- Industry and economy -- Verbs of Forms III and IV -- Pluperfect tense -- Conditional andconcessive sentences -- Regional variations -- Adverbs -- Part icipial. Verb -- Lesson 12 At the Surgery -- Body and health -- Verbs of Forms V and VI -- Absolute object -- Special adjectives -- Quadriliteral verb -- Expressions of circumstance -- Age -- Regional variations -- Lesson 13 A Visit to the Village -- Geography and climate -- Verbs of Forms VII and VIII -- Abstract nouns -- Reflexive -- Passive -- Diminutives -- Lesson 14 In the Market -- Shopping -- Clothes -- Verbs of Forms IX and X -- Lesson 15 The News -- Politics and international relations -- Broadcasting -- Written forms -- Recapitulation of verb, Forms I to X -- Part II. Written Arabic -- Lesson 16 Reading and Writing -- Alphabet -- Article -- Sound plural and dual endings -- Doubled letters -- Lesson 17 Reading and Writing -- Alphabet -- Lesson 18 Reading and Writing -- Alphabet -- Arabic transcription -- Pointing -- Lesson 19 Insurance -- Full and short pronunciation -- Nouns and adjectives -- Possessive suffixes -- Prepositions -- Pronoun suffixes -- Lesson 20 Transport and Communications -- Subject pronouns -- Verbs with sound final root letter -- Dictionary -- Lesson 21 Personnel Management -- Object pronouns -- Complements -- Negatives -- Interrogatives -- Sentence structure -- Future -- Lesson 22 Petroleum -- Demonstratives -- Clauses of purpose -- Auxiliary verbs -- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs -- Lesson 23 From the Newspapers -- Relative pronouns -- Final-weak verbs -- Dictionary -- Lesson 24 Correspondence -- Ruq9a script -- Numbers -- Time -- Calendar -- Anomalous nouns and adjectives -- Lesson 25 The Transfer of Technology -- Auxiliaries with the present tense -- Doubly weak verbs -- Lesson 26 The United Nations -- Expressions with the jussive -- Conditional sentences -- Passive -- Improper agreement -- Equivalent spoken and written forms -- Key to exercises -- Index of words -- Arabic, Part I -- English, Parts I and II -- Arabic, Part II.

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