Key Features
Key Features
Shwayy ‘An Haali is a survey-based eBook for listening, reading, and expressing yourself in Levantine Arabic.
Designed for learners at any level, this eBook helps you develop real conversational ability in Levantine Arabic. Each section is built around a common personal question and includes authentic responses from speakers in both Lebanon and Syria, allowing you to hear how closely related dialects differ in vocabulary, pronunciation, and usage. The book supports listening, reading, and guided production, while also helping you understand how Levantine Arabic compares to Modern Standard Arabic.
What’s inside
- 30 survey-based sections on personal background, routines, and preferences.
- Ten authentic responses per question, five Lebanese and five Syrian.
- Arabic script with phonemic transcription and English translation.
- Dialect-specific vocabulary marking with cross-dialect equivalents.
- Practice pages for writing and speaking personal responses.
- Full Modern Standard Arabic translations.
- Unvoweled texts for advanced reading practice.
Who it’s for: Learners of Levantine Arabic at any level, from beginner to advanced, with no prerequisites.
Audio: Audio for all content is available to download or stream below and features the original recordings submitted by the survey participants, including natural pronunciation, rhythm, and built-in pauses for processing.
Use this eBook to build confidence talking about yourself across the Levant.
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Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
Great book! Starts with basic constructions and words and then gradually advances to more complex phrases. So many of the topics are things that you would naturally talk about in a second language. I have learned how to say things more naturally with this book.
A great book to start teaching beginners who want to focus on the Levantine dialect! Very enjoyable to follow with the different themes and it also reflects a diversity of dialects within the Levant. Would recommend a study of the alphabet beforehand to help with making sense of the words and extracting sound patterns.
I love it! I’ve been studying Egyptian for 14 months and now I want to learn Lebanese so I purchased Shwayy ‘an haali so I could compare the differences between the two dialects and begin to pick up some lebanese and Syrian vocab straight away. This book is aimed at the A1-A2 level, but the book is also thankfully a bit challenging. Each chapter starts off with the common phrases but most of the time the survey subjects gives lengthy answers sprinkled with an advanced vocabulary. The audio is very fast so You must repeat the segments many times over.
There aren’t many Levantine resources out on the market so everything published by Lingualism is an absolute must.
I love this book. I was studying MSA , but as a flight attendant, I couldn´t communicate with Arabs. Now, I´m more than glad, that I bought this book and of course I´m going to buy the second one right now. The passengers finally, understand me!!! I recommend you buy this book. Maybe looks hard to read in the beginning. But don´t give up!! Trust me!!!
Simply GREAT !
I really reccomend this book for anyone who is keen on learning Lebanese and Syrian dialects. Very well made, looking forward to continuing with the second book. This book helped me building my knowledge in Lebvantine dialect and I am able to communicate and understand with native speakers easily. It is a great book for whoever has some basic knowledge in MSA but prefers concentrating on a dialect. I chose this book because I am working with people coming from Syria and Lebanon and cannot communicate in other language rather than their own. This is the reason why I find this book GREAT
Full stars, I'd give an additional one if I could !
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