Standard Arabic: An elementary-intermediate course av Eckehard Schulz, 2005

This book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of the many colloquial varieties. This long-established and successful textbook has been completely revised with the needs of English-speaking learners especially in mind, and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

• Step-by-step guide to understanding written and spoken texts

• Develops conversational ability as well as reading and writing skills

• Arabic-English Glossary containing 2600 entries

• Fresh texts and dialogues containing up-to-date data on the Middle East and North Africa

• Includes Arab folklore, customs, proverbs, and short essays on contemporary topics

• Grammatical terms also given in Arabic enabling students to attend language courses in Arab countries

• Provides a wide variety of exercises and drills to reinforce grammar points, vocabulary learning and communicative strategies

• Includes a key to the exercises

• Accompanying cassettes also available

Eckehard Schulz is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig. He is an experienced teacher and interpreter of Arabic and the author of several textbooks in the field..