Arabic Character Writing For Dummies (For Dummies (Language & Literature))

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The Arabic Character Writing For Dummies is basically an exercise practice book to help you learn how to write Arabic. This is a thin volume workbook. It would work well as a companion to Arabic for Dummies. The book explains how to write each character and then gives you ample practice space.It is well written and easy to understand.I do wish it were a bit longer, but for the price, this is a good book. If you are learning Arabic, or are interested in learning Arabic, I do recommend this easy to understand workbook for adults.If you found my review helpful, please let Amazon know by clicking the helpful button below!Disclosure: I received a sample product from the Amazon Vine program for an honest and unbiased review.

The written language, which is studied in this book, is literary Arabic, sometimes also called classical Arabic or even modern or standard Arabic. It is the language of the Quran, classical poetry, literature and the media. The Arabic plume consists of 28 consonants and three long vowels. Each consonant is accompanied by a vowel that is placed above or below the consonant. For my fiance, Arabic is one of the newest languages that he is teaching himself (he can speak a total of 7 languages!) and since college, he has started forgetting some of his Arabic. This book has a good basis on the fundamentals of the written language, as well as basic conversational skills. Repetition, the key to learning anything new, is the primary means in these books. However, as you progress, they reinforce the words and language skills learned earlier by forcing you to incorporate them as you get farther along. He says the book has great flashcards for studying. He learns like a child, usually a visual learner. The alphabet is presented in a way where you can learn the different writing positions of each letter and the pronunciation. I go to this book all the time for reference purposes.

The book has everything you need to learn to write Arabic characters. The introduction makes it quite clear that you need to practice, practice, practice and that there aren't shortcuts if you want to know how the characters connect. The book is large and offers plenty of room to practice though you'll probably want a notebook to help practice as well. It igves the names of the letters and what they sound like in English, as well.

The book has tons of exercises for writing Arabic characters. Four kinds for each, depending on where it falls in the word. Shows strokes in order to write properly, and describes the characters with words, too, so you will be most accurate. Then later they also offer to copy some words with the characters learned before. No word whatsoever about other aspects of language learning, though. It is a thin book, and it also has a big section with lined paper at the end, so it is actually smaller than it appears.

This book feels like a real missed opportunity. It fills a lot of pages detailing separate letters even when they are essentially redundant. But it glosses over a lot of information. For example, it doesn't tell you if you're writing a word should you wait until the end of the word to add your dots, or do it in the middle of writing a word (for example, after an "aleph"). It also doesn't tell you what order to write your dots in. These might be small details but if one is trying to learn the proper writing technique they are important.More frustrating are the "practice" sections. After learning a few letters you have a practice page with a few words to practice writing. But the pronunciations of these words aren't given. Even if Arabic weren't an abjad, it would still be helpful for a newcomer to see words written out in English. But it's especially bad in Arabic because the letters don't tell you fully how to pronounce the word. For example one of the words is "bodies" (جثث). This is like seeing "jthth" in English. Only after I plugged this word into Google Translate did I hear it was pronounced something like "juthathon". How could anyone know this if they didn't already speak Arabic? As the reader learns more words, the examples get more complex but still without any explanation; they're just presented for practice.Not much later on things get more confusing as a random "w" pops up above one of the letters with no explanation. Only by flipping forward 50 (!) pages do you see an explanation of it, and a pretty terse one at that. It "indicates that the letter is doubled". Well, I guess that explains everything right? :\ Explanations of these extra symbols in the Arabic script should have been introduced early on rather than appearing suddenly and confusing the reader.Some of the book could have been made much shorter; for example, there is no need to devote three entire pages to "jiim", "haa" and "khaa", as they are the exact same letter except for one dot. And elsewhere, there's a lot of missing information that would have been helpful.I'm sorry to say that it simply isn't worth the money. I'm going to invest in a different book or stick to free online resources which will explain things better.

This is a great book for learning the alphabet and the different connectors for the various letters when forming words. However, I have friends that are fluent in Arabic and the words included in the book are not correct some of the time, so I would show hesitancy on using this book for word pronunciation and writing them out. So this is a great book for learning how to write and identify letters, but you'll want to skip the learning/memorization of the words that are provided.

In the device store it say the sample was free I click and I was char for 72 Pages of BS NOT EVEN THE FULL SAMPLE, please return my money