Arabic-L:PEDA:Suggestions for teach yourself beginners

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Date: 02 May 2009
From:Grant Shafer <grantshafer at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Suggestions for teach yourself beginners

Dear Mr. Seevers,
I'm also teaching myself Arabic.  I'm using Griffithes Wheeler  
Thatcher's Arabic Grammar of the Written Language and Hans Wehr's A  
Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. Milton Cowan.  Both  
were recommended to me by University of Michigan professors and should  
be available on Amazon.com.
I think that another grammar by Nahmad and a co-author whom I cannot  
remember was also recommended.
Good luck,
Grant Shafer

[second message from same correspondent:]

Dear Mr. Seever,
I think that the other book recommended by the U. of Michigan prof was  
Haywood and Nahmad's A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language.
Thatcher's Arabic Grammar has a drawback. When translating English to  
Arabic, I find that many of the words needed are not in the vocabulary  
at the end of the book.  One needs to look at the vocabularies from  
previous lessons.  If you have Hans Wehr's Arabic dictionary,  
translating from Arabic to English should be OK, once you learn to  
recognize roots.
Good luck,
Grant Shafer

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Date: 02 May 2009
From:a elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:Suggestions for teach yourself beginners

Re:selfstudy Arabic (Walt Seevers)
Please visit this Blog, I founded helpful.
http://www.myarabicteacher.blogspot.com/

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