First-Year Arabic
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Ragy Mikhaeel, Northwestern University
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Publisher: Northwestern University Libraries
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- About
- Introduction
- Lesson One الدرس األول
- Lesson Two الدرس الثاني
- Lesson Three الدرس الثالث
- Lesson Four الدرس الرابع
- Lesson Five الدرس الخامس
- Lesson Six الدرس السادس
- Lesson Seven الدرس السابع
- Lesson Eight الدرس الثامن
- Lesson Nine الدرس التاسع
- Lesson Ten الدرس العاشر
- Lesson Eleven الدرس الحادي عشر
- Lesson Twelve الدرس الثاني عشر
- Lesson Thirteen الدرس الثالث عشر
- Lesson Fourteen الدرس الرابع عشر
- Lesson Fifteen الدرس الخامس عشر
- Lesson Sixteen الدرس السادس عشر
- Lesson Seventeen الدرس السابع عشر
- Lesson Eighteen الدرس الثامن عشر
- Lesson Nineteen الدرس التاسع عشر
- Lesson Twenty الدرس العشرون
- Lesson Twenty-One الدرس الواحد والعشرون
- Lesson Twenty-Two الدرس الثاني والعشرون
- Lesson Twenty-Three الدرس الثالث والعشرون
Ancillary Material
Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
First-Year Arabic focuses on Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, the most widespread spoken Arabic variety which is perceived as the lingua franca in the Arab world. The material of the book covers about 15-16 weeks of study for classes meeting twice a week (80 minutes/session). This material can be modified according to the teacher’s plan and speed. Students with only one introductory course of Arabic can use the book for self education. The learner can tell easily from the introductory chapter, the quality of the grammatical notes, verb conjugations and exercises spread all over the book that the book is written for both regular language class purpose at the university level and for self education. The book has recordings that are essential for learners.
About the Contributors
Author
Ragy Mikhaeel is a native of Cairo, Egypt. He taught Arabic at Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges before coming to Northwestern. He is the author of Barron’s Learn Arabic: The Fast and Fun Way (as Ragy H. Ibrahim), which focused on the Egyptian spoken dialect, and has worked on several curriculum development projects, including the preparation of an Egyptian dialect version of Munther Younes’s Living Arabic textbook. From 1993–2002, Ragy worked as a journalist for Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo), covering art, politics, the environment, popular science, and gender. He received the 2015 Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award from the Council on Language Instruction (CLI) and the 2017-2018 Provost’s Fellowship for Digital Learning Award for developing an online tool for his Arabic language students to interact with audio and video explanations while analyzing annotated texts from the Arabic Manuscripts from West Africa collection in Northwestern’s Herskovits Library of African Studies.