This book is Levantine as it is spoken: natives speak naturally not as text books! The notes in fusha are also useful for those who have learned MSA. This is great even for non beginners.
Great study book at an advanced level with topical issues.
There are few written resources in Levantine dialect for non-beginners. This book fills a gap. The texts are recorded and the book layout is very clear with questions before and after each text. I use it with a teacher but also on my own to review each lesson. Besides I am learning lots of interesting facts about Lebanon. I wish Lingualism continues enriching this series with books on the geography of Syria as well as history of the region.
As a serious Tunisian dialect learner, these are some of the best dialect specific resources I have found. Thank you!
Like all your Lebanese Arabic product this is a first class production
The layout and presentation are excellent and the graded telling of each story in advancing levels of difficulty is wonderful
A super addition to my library
Would be interested in a hard copy if ever it comes to the market but the soft copy is easy to use and most effective
Really well written stories, great vocabulary and fun to re-read and listen to several times. Pretty unique content, cool culture references and most all the stories are heartwarming and positive. I'm glad I found these -- I've really enjoyed both these Russian level 1 and 2 books. Great job.
I love this book. The concepts are very clear and the reading is easy and enjoyable. I especially appreciate that it includes English script writing along with the original Arabic text because it really helps us read the words correctly. Please continue adding English script plus translations with the original Arabic (as it is in this book) for your future books too.
Very good but the present has only the conjugation is missing most of pronouns
I use "Spanish Voices" for the brunt of my fluency/comprehension training. Random Spanish is just the icing on the cake. Both great products, awesome company!
So far so good. Lingualism products, in general, i.e. Spanish Voices are really helping my fluency. I've noticed a massive shift already. Random Spanish is just the icing on the cake.
Really enjoyed these Level Up stories. Intriguing and heartwarming plots and diverse vocabulary. The culture and history built into the storylines is very cool. The free audio is very helpful too.
I was so looking forward to this but am finding it extremely difficult to follow, access--sorry, but I wish I could get a refund and just deal with real book (which I do have).
Hello Guys,
All of your content, and I do mean all of it, is outstanding. But I do have one request. I use spaced repetition cards and sentence mining to study languages, so I would dearly love to copy and paste both the Arabic and transliteration from your excellent books, particularly the Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, into my cards. However, everything seems to be copy-protected, so I cannot do this. Is there any way for me to obtain copiable versions of the many books I have purchased from lingualism? For example, I can cut and paste from your Anki decks without difficulty, but not from your books. If there were a way around this problem, I would give you 10 stars.
Thanks, Matt McGaughey
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Thanks so much for the kind words, Matt. Really glad you’re enjoying the materials and using them with Anki. At the moment, we don’t offer copyable text or plain-text versions of our eBooks. That said, if there are specific titles you’d like to see turned into Anki decks, feel free to let us know. We’re always happy to consider new deck ideas based on user feedback.
Unclear and careless pronunciation of some people, full of mms, aahs and more filling words because of unprepared speakers, more or less boring texts, some pages are a waste of paper (and time). Profit very low!
Thank you for your feedback. Egyptian Arabic Voices features authentic, spontaneous monologues by native speakers. The speakers are talking naturally and unscripted, which means pauses, fillers, and other features of real speech appear in the recordings. This is intentional and explained in the product description, since the goal of the book is to expose learners to how Egyptian Arabic is actually spoken in real life.
For learners who find the authentic recordings challenging, the book also includes clear, slower versions of the audio to make the content easier to follow while still benefiting from the natural material.
We appreciate you sharing your perspective and will keep it in mind as we continue developing future materials.
Sound quality is fine. Technically it works great. My tutor from Amman assures me that the reader's accent appears to be from Amman. On page 11 there was a minor translation error: " Because I was a good student" should be "because he was a good student". (The verb was كان. ) So beware.
Very useful tool. I had had to add manually bookmarks to index the Letters like in every dictionary to find the words easier.
Somehow I didn’t find them extraordinary. They were above average at best.
As a graduate of Arabic I found this book, in conjunction with the audio downloads, very helpful for brushing up my Egyptian colloquial. Having four versions of each story, each getting progressively more challenging, works well.
Series seems good- love the continued dialect works and