'Arabiyyat al-Naas fii Maṣr. Part one : an introductory course in Arabic

‘Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) offers a ground-breaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers.It combines a progressive and rigorous grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the register employed for reading, writing and formal speaking, with an innovative integration of the dominant Egyptian variety. Introducing the two simultaneously and seamlessly building on their shared features, ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) uses each in its proper context: Egyptian dialect for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities. In this way, the course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and living Arabic today.Features include: Expanded grammar explanations and activation drills, including discussions about colloquial and formal similarities and differences A series of authentic video-clips recorded in Egypt to help learners revise the vocabulary and structures then learn unit by unit Extensive classroom activities and homework exercises that provide constant review to reinforce learning Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries, reference charts, and a grammar index Songs with simple lyrics tied to the themes of the course to help advance vocabulary acquisition and understanding of basic grammatical structures A companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/weatherspoon) that features fully integrated interactive, self-correcting exercises, audio and video materials, and additional online course management and grading options for teachers A user-friendly and vibrant text design with full colour, richly illustrated throughout with over two hundred illustrations and photos A teachers manual with an Arabic introduction for the teacher, which lays out the structure of the student course book, its methodology and directions and suggestions for its use. Written by experienced teachers of Arabic and experts in Arabic teaching pedagogy, ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) is an essential resource for students beginning to learn Arabic. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Visual tour of the textbook Introduction Unit 1: Arabic alphabet and numbers Lesson 1: I am a student ­ انا طالب Lesson 2: I am from . . . ­ . . . انا من Lesson 3: Is the city of . . . big or small? ­ مدينة . . . كبيرة ولا صغيرة؟ Lesson 4: The weather ­ الجوّ Lesson 5: Is the weather cold in April? ­ الجوّ بارد في شهر أبريل؟ Lesson 6: I live in an apartment ­ أنا ساكن في شقّة Lesson 7: I have one brother ­ عندي أخ واحد Lesson 8: My sister is an engineer and has three children ­ أُختي مُهندسة وعندها ثلاث أولاد Lesson 9: I have an Arabic lesson at 10 o’clock! – عندي درس عربي الساعة عشرة! Lesson 10: The Arab countries and their capitals ­ الدول العربيّة وعواصمها الوحدة الثانية: أهلاً وسهلاً في القاهِرة! Plural pronouns; plural possession Noun-adjectiveagreement; non-humanplurals The Nisba adjective ( النسبة ); Arabic equational sentences (no verb to be in the present tense) الوحدة الثالثة: التاكسي Expressing “to want” in Egyptian Arabic (مصري) The past tense verb, stems Review of negation in مصري الوحدة الرابعة: الفندق Possession: عندي vs. معي Arabic root types Hollow verb conjugation in the past tense; definiteness possession and noun-adjectiveagreement Grammar review: noun-adjectivephrases/iDaafa/equational sentences/Sociolinguistic Corner: معي/معاي الوحدة الخامسة: جواز السفر More on the active participle Sound and broken plural patterns Direct object suffixes Sociolinguistic Corner: the past tense ( (الفعل الماضيin فصحى and مصري الوحدة السادسة: المطعم The comparative The present tense ( المُضارع) The particle أن in فُصحى ; adjectives withإضافة phrases Sociolinguistic Corner: the present tense ( (الفعل المضارعin فصحى and مصري ; expressing “to want” in bothفصحى and مصري الوحدة السابعة: السكن More on the present tense in مصري : the prefix ;ب verb negation Root types: doubled roots in مصري Note about آ (alif madda) Negation of the present tense ( المُضارع ) in ;فُصحى Expressing the future in فصحى ; more uses of ,أنْ the case system in فُصحى More on plural patterns الوحدة الثامنة: المُواصَلات The particle إنّ The superlative Verb–subject (dis)agreement in فُصحى ; more examplesof إعراب (the فصحى case system); relative clauses modifying indefinite nouns Grammar review: the comparative and superlative; root sand families Sociolinguistic Corner: أنّ/إنّ ; ليس/مِش الوحدة التاسعة: الجَوّ Relative clauses modifying definite nouns; the returning pronoun ( الضمير العائد) Root types: assimilated roots; negation of the past tense in فصحى ; dual agreement Noun and adjective stems Sociolinguistic Corner: جه – ييجي in مصري and جاء – يجيء in فصحى الوحدة العاشرة: العائلة والمهن More on the present tense ( المُضارع ) in مصري Root types: final-weakroots Negating the future tense in فصحى with لَن , using إنّ and ,أنّ Case endings ( الإعراب) Sociolinguistic Corner: إنّ and أنّ across registers الوحدة رقم ١١ : الدراسة Negating the future tense in مصري ; expressing possession in the past tense with بتاع، بتاعة، بتوع ;كان ; note on pronunciation in مصري Passive voice in أقدَم مِن/مِن أقدَم ;فُصحى الإعراب ;أمّا . . . ف with verbs Sociolinguistic Corner: relative pronouns الوحدة رقم ١٢ : الأعياد والمناسبات Root types: summary قَد ; The Forms of the Arabic verb; Forms I and VIII Sociolinguistic Corner: بدأت تنتشر ; relative pronouns; الوحدة رقم ١٣ : التسوّق The imperative in مصري Past tense negation with لم ; Forms II and IV Sociolinguistic Corner: This and that, على راسي الوحدة رقم ١٤ : الأكل والصحّة The use of كان to express past and future actions and states الوحدة رقم ١٥ : الرياضة والهوايات The verbal noun ( المصد) The conjunction ف; Looking up words in the dictionary الوحدة رقم ١٦ : أسئلة غريبة ; More on verb negation in فُصحى Sociolinguistic Corner: حبّ – يحبّ، أحَبّ – يُحِبّ الوحدة رقم ١٧ : زيارة مناطق أخرى Negation in فصحى and مصري الوحدة رقم ١٨ : زيارة فلسطين Past tense negation with لَم and hollow root verbs;Form VII ( انفعل) Sociolinguistic Corner الوحدة رقم ١٩ انطِباعات مايا Verb form summary Glossaries Index of grammatical terms ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One) offers a groundbreaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a progressive and rigorous grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) – the form employed for reading, writing and formal speaking – with an innovative integration of the spoken Levantine variety used in everyday situations in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. Introducing the two simultaneously ‘Arabiyyat al Naas (Part One) uses each in its proper context: Levantine for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities. In this way, the course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and'living'Arabic today. Features include:21 theme-based units covering all the core topics expected in a first-year Arabic course, such as countries, clothes, colors, family and professionsa broad range of stimulating activities and exercises fostering active engagement with the course and the development of comprehension and communication skillscomprehensively covers the 5 Cs: communication, culture, connections, comparisons and communitiesfree downloadable resources filmed on location in Jordan, presenting over 40 videos and incorporating a wide variety of entertaining and realistic scenariosa free companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) offering a wealth of additional instructor and student resources, including a teacher's guide, an introduction to the letters and sounds of Arabic (with audiovisual aid and writing demonstrations), audio recordings of songs and listening passages, video clips, sample tests, an answer key and language gamesclear explanations of grammatical structures and concepts as they occur in the reading and listening materials to encourage progressive learning and active interaction with the texta user-friendly and vibrant full colour text design, richly illustrated throughout with over 200 illustrations and photographssongs with simple lyrics tied to the themes of the course to help advance vocabulary acquisition and understanding of basic grammatical structures.Written by a dynamic author team and tested over a number of years at Cornell University, ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One) will be an essential resource for students beginning to learn Arabic. While primarily designed for classroom use, the accessibility of the course and website also renders it highly suitable for independent study. The materials are designed to bring students from the novice low level to the intermediate low level on the ACTFL scale (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), and from A1 to A2/B1 on the CEFR scale (Common European Framework Reference).This volume is the first in an exciting three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. `Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One) offers a groundbreaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a progressive and rigorous grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) - the form employed for reading, writing and formal speaking - with an innovative integration of the spoken Levantine variety used in everyday situations in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. Introducing the two simultaneously `Arabiyyat al Naas (Part One) uses each in its proper context: Levantine for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities. In this way, the course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and "living" Arabic today. Features include: 21 theme-based units covering all the core topics expected in a first-year Arabic course, such as countries, clothes, colors, family and professions a broad range of stimulating activities and exercises fostering active engagement with the course and the development of comprehension and communication skills comprehensively covers the 5 Cs: communication, culture, connections, comparisons and communities a free DVD filmed on location in Jordan, presenting over 40 videos and incorporating a wide variety of entertaining and realistic scenarios a free companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) offering a wealth of additional instructor and student resources, including a teacher's guide, an introduction to the letters and sounds of Arabic (with audiovisual aid and writing demonstrations), audio recordings of songs and listening passages, video clips, sample tests, an answer key and language games clear explanations of grammatical structures and concepts as they occur in the reading and listening materials to encourage progressive learning and active interaction with the text a user-friendly and vibrant full colour text design, richly illustrated throughout with over 200 illustrations and photographs songs with simple lyrics tied to the themes of the course to help advance vocabulary acquisition and understanding of basic grammatical structures. Written by a dynamic author team and tested over a number of years at Cornell University, `Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One) will be an essential resource for students beginning to learn Arabic. While primarily designed for classroom use, the accessibility of the course and website also renders it highly suitable for independent study. The materials are designed to bring students from the novice low level to the intermediate low level on the ACTFL scale (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), and from A1 to A2/B1 on the CEFR scale (Common European Framework Reference). This volume is the first in an exciting three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program 'Arabiyyat al Naas, Part three' is a vibrant course designed for advanced-level students of Arabic. The volume is the final installment of a three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. `Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part Three): An Advanced Course in Arabic builds further on the groundbreaking approach used in Part One and Part Two of the series. It integrates Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and spoken Levantine in a way specially tailored to the needs of advanced students. Levantine Arabic strongly features in spoken discussions of MSA materials, reflecting authentic practice by native speakers. However, the overall ratio of MSA - the form employed for reading, writing and formal speaking in the Arab world - to Levantine has been increased, supporting students' mounting need for MSA as they progress further in their education. This textbook is designed to take learners from the Advanced Low to the Advanced High level according to the ACTFL criteria, and from level B2 to C1 on the CEFR proficiency scales. Features include: 18 theme-based units covering topics such as Arab minorities; education; religion; love and marriage; the Arab woman; economics; politics; military matters; and the environment thorough coverage of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills with clear grammar explanations and lessons structured to provide opportunities for further practice humorous, realistic dialogues reflecting educated speech among Arabs, to build up strong and practical communication skills attention to issues highly relevant to modern Arab society, encouraging active engagement with the course and further exploration of the themes a rich variety of reading passages from contemporary sources such as Al Jazeera as well as excerpts from the classic works One Thousand and One Nights and Kalila wa Dimna an extensive range of stimulating exercises and activities, including crossword puzzles, root-and-pattern identification exercises, passage completions, and free compositions free companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) with the audio tracks, and texts of the listening passages and answer key. Developed by a dynamic author team and tested over a number of years at Cornell University, `Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part Three) is an essential resource for advanced-level students of Arabic. While primarily designed for classroom use, the accessibility of the course also renders it highly suitable for independent study. This volume is the final installment of a pioneering three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. Munther Younes and Yomna H. Chami both teach Arabic at Cornell University, USA Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) offers a ground-breaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a progressive and rigorous grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), theregister employed for reading, writing and formal speaking, with an innovative integration of the dominant Egyptian variety. Introducing the two simultaneously and seamlessly building on their shared features, Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) uses each in its proper context: Egyptian dialect for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities. In this way, the course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and living Arabic today. Features include: Expanded grammar explanations and activation drills, including discussions about colloquial and formal similarities and differences A series of authentic video-clips recorded in Egypt to help learners revise the vocabulary and structures then learn unit by unit Extensive classroom activities and homework exercises that provide constant review to reinforce learning Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries, reference charts, and a grammar index Songs with simple lyrics tied to the themes of the course to help advance vocabulary acquisition and understanding of basic grammatical structures A companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/weatherspoon) that features fully integrated interactive, self-correcting exercises, audio and video materials, and additional online course management and grading options for teachers A user-friendly and vibrant text design with full colour, richly illustrated throughout with over two hundred illustrations and photos A teachers manual with an Arabic introduction for the teacher, which lays out the structure of the student course book, its methodology and directions and suggestions for its use. Written by experienced teachers of Arabic and experts in Arabic teaching pedagogy, Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One) is an essential resource for students beginning to learn Arabic Arabiyyat al Naas (Part Two): An Intermediate Course in Arabic offers a vibrant course in Arabic as it is written and spoken today by educated native speakers. Not only does it continue the innovative integration of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic used in Part One of the series, but it does so in a way that supports and develops students increased mastery of the language. Combining a greater focus on cultural topics with an increased coverage of MSA, Part Two introduces more sophisticated communication, giving students a deeper awareness of the cultural base of the Arabic language. Features include: Developed by an experienced and dynamic author team and tested over a number of years at Cornell University, Arabiyyat al Naas (Part Two) will be an essential resource for intermediate-level students of Arabic. While primarily designed for classroom use, the accessibility of the course also renders it highly suitable for independent study. This volume is the second in a pioneering three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program. 'arabiyyat Al-naas Fii Masr (part One) Offers A Ground-breaking Introduction To Arabic As It Is Written And Spoken By Native Speakers. It Combines A Progressive And Rigorous Grounding In Modern Standard Arabic (msa), The Form Employed For Reading, Writing And Formal Speaking, With An Innovative Integration Of The Dominant Egyptian Variety. Introducing The Two Simultaneously And Seamlessly Building On Their Shared Features, 'arabiyyat Al-naas Fii Masr (part One) Uses Each In Its Proper Context: Egyptian Dialect For Conversations And Msa For Reading And Writing Activities. In This Way, The Course Efficiently Prepares Students For The Practical Realities Of Learning And Living Arabic Today. A Companion Website With Extensive Materials Accompanies The Book At Www.routledge.com/cw/weatherspoon.