Re: Learning to Speak Arabic

Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> > 14 Sep 2006 09:25:15 -0700: "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>: in
> > sci.lang:
> >
> > >I just hope there are good textbooks of Egyptian dialect...
> >
> > There used to be a Teach Yourself, which Latin transcriptions and no
> > Arabic script.
>
>
> "Teach Yourself Colloquial Arabic" by T.F. Mitchell. he also has an
> advanced  grammar book.
>

for Iraqi arabic there is "Iraqi Arabic" by Y. Kalesi (an arabist and
native of Iraq).

for Levantine there is "Colloquial Arabic (Levantine)" by Leslie
McLoughlin

the series also has one on the Gulf.

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