Arabic Voices 1

Very honored that the Lingualism team recorded the voice of Wasem
(A Palestinian Arab citizen of the Green
Triangle,Israel) very rare to have someone who is Palestinian by nationality but Israeli by citizenship there's more people like him that you guys should do more recordings on that alive all around Israel,Palestine and abroad that would like their voices heard and recorded

This is an absolutely fabulous book with which to learn Arabic! This one as well as its sequel is a true gem in language-learning country. In my opinion, there are two things that make this book especially valuable: 1) the focus on natural, spontaneous speech instead of the rigid, inflexible and read-out stuff that FuSHa-learners usually have to work with 2) The meticulously produced and highly accurate transcriptions of what is sometimes fuzzy, incoherent and non-standard speech, as well as the many interesting footnotes and remarks. From a linguistics-perspective, this is the very best way to master spoken language. Anyone learning Arabic in my opinion should use this book. I would obviously recommend it to anyone interested in Arabic.

Wonderful channel

If you want to develop your Arabic at an intermediate level with a focus on understanding native speakers, then you have found home. The authors do not skimp: 28 episodes with audio recording of the highest quality, text transcription, questions that check language comprehension. Excellent for self-studies. The reasonably long (short) sections enable you to complete an entire section without a break even if you are busy. If you have English as your first language or use English daily (not me) do as the author recommends in the preface. If you get tired of keeping track of two languages ​​at the same time, do as I do: listen the audio a few times then read the Arabic text then watch the free video lesson on the website. There is a short lesson for each episode in MSA with an exceptionally fine pronunciation and pedagogical explanation, this is very impressive. When I have some energy and time left, I take the English control questions last. I highly recommend this material. I also bought the Arabic Voices No2 of course!

This is a great way to hear the different dialects

Great. Recommended

In the past I have struggled to find authentic and extended listening texts to support my Arabic studies. Typically, the listening activities that I found were short, inauthentic and limited to functional situations. I was therefore was very pleased to discover Arabic Voices. I am gradually working my way through the Modern Standard Arabic chapters. I have downloaded the audio tracks to my phone and try to listen to them regularly. I also read and listen together. The vocabulary load is quite high so I spend quite a lot of time practising the vocabulary in isolation. The parallel English and Arabic texts has made it very easy to pick out useful words and phrases and to see how they are used within a sentence; it also enables you to check the meaning quickly when practising Arabic reading if you encounter a difficult phrase. I like that the book begins with introductions by each of the speakers before moving onto more sophisticated topics; this naturally grades the difficulty of the texts. My only qualm is that there are no speakers of Gulf Arabic as I am resident in the Arabian Gulf. However, overall I would highly recommend this book to intermediate speakers of Arabic who are motivated for study-study.

I have worked through all of the chapters in this book/resource and definitely concur with the other reviewers that this (along with many other Lingualism products) is an excellent resource for students of Arabic. The recordings are generally of good-to-great quality, the topics are diverse and interesting, and the overall structure of each chapter is very conducive for self-study. I highly recommend Arabic Voices 1.

Fantastic resource, this is the first of it's kind providing recordings and transcriptions of real people talking about daily life and themselves in their native accent. There isn't anything like this available anywhere else. The usual materials provided by other resources are basic and in MSA. This is not useful to anybody. In this book you will hear real people talking how they normally talk to other Arabs. I highly recommend this product for all levels of Arabic students working on any dialect. It is a real eye opener for me as there is nothing like this out there. Please keep up the good work Lingualism!!

I like this book because the text and audio files are very good to develop my arabic listening ability. You can learn 9countries accents from native arabic speakers. It sounds different from news caster or professional narrator but I think it is more natural and daily speaking. It is very slow speed of talking so if you have finished beginners texts, you should try to it. I will buy 2nd book too. Thank you

I bought Arabic Voices 1 book a few months ago and took advantage of the mp3 availability.
Although I understood the technique which is suggested in the introduction I soon realised that the standard was too difficult for me to rely on listening.
I concentrated on working with the text as I found from the outset that I could follow enough of the passage even if there were big gaps in my vocabulary. The parallel text is invaluable for this and this is enhanced by the arrangement in short sentences which are numbered.
Despite not using the mp3 recordings much, I was so pleased with the book that I ordered volume 2 almost immediately.
The other decision was to concentrate on the MSA texts - given the standard I am at the prospect of coping with other varieties of Arabic was too ambitious (but see below).
I then followed on with volume 2.
I have now gone back and started volume 1 again. I estimate that whereas I understood 50+% on the first reading, without reference to the English text, this has now risen to 60-80%, depending on the passage.
Also, I have now “dared” to read through the non-MSA sections and have been pleasantly surprised how much I can understand and by the fact that they do not vary so much from MSA as I had anticipated. (Which is why I avoided them at the start.)