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Arabic Voices is a two-part series designed to provide students of Arabic with an opportunity to hear and study authentic Arabic as it is spoken by native speakers today. Unlike the scripted materials read by voice actors used in many coursebooks, Arabic Voices offers dozens of audio essays spoken naturally and off-the-cuff by individuals from across the Arab World. Each of the twelve native speakers has contributed audio essays in both Modern Standard Arabic and his or her native dialect, which have then been transcribed for study.
Topics include: self-introductions, childhood memories, daily routines, university life, marriage, religion, clothing, transportation, and the Arabic language, among other cultural topics.
The segments (audio essay chapters) in Modern Standard Arabic provide valuable insight into native speakers’ range of style and proficiency in the language.
The segments in colloquial Arabic dialects offer a fascinating look into the many varieties of Arabic, and how similar and different they really are from one another. Fine-tuning your listening to the idiosyncrasies of each dialect will truly help you better understand spoken Arabic.
Each segment contains:
- Exercises to sharpen your listening skills and increase how much you can understand, whatever your level.
- In-chapter answers to the exercises (no having to flip back and forth to the back of the book).
- A voweled transcript of the audio with side-by-side English translations
- Cultural and linguistic notes
- Weblinks to articles and videos related to the segment
- Select segments feature grammar focuses for additional practice
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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.
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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
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