<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Sat 01 Sep 2007</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<A href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <A href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</A>]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</A> with first line reading:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Materials Suggestions (English Speakers)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 01 Sep 2007</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<B> </B>"Haroon Shirwani" <<A href="mailto:arabictutor@hotmail.com">arabictutor@hotmail.com</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Materials Suggestions (English Speakers)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Welcome to England, Inès.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The following materials have been used to teach English speakers in Britain with great success:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- If the students have more than five hours per week of class time and can do a further five hours per week of homework, they should use Al-Kitaab series, which comes with instructional DVDs to accompany the books.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alif Baa, for teaching the alphabet and basic conversation (leaning towards Egyptian Arabic)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alif-Baa-DVDs-Introduction-Letters/dp/1589011023/ref=pd_bowtega_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578446&sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alif-Baa-DVDs-Introduction-Letters/dp/1589011023/ref=pd_bowtega_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578446&sr=1-1</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Al-Kitaab 1 will taken them from Beginners to Intermediate level</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Kitaab-Fii-Allum-Al-Arabiyya/dp/158901104X">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Kitaab-Fii-Allum-Al-Arabiyya/dp/158901104X</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This course is on the pricier side but well worth it, as long as you have the time to go through it all.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- If the students have fewer than six hours' worth of class time, then they should use Mastering Arabic series.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mastering Arabic, which rapidly takes students through the alphabet, basic grammar and core vocabulary to take them to Lower Intermediate Level</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Palgrave-Master-Languages/dp/0230013120/ref=pd_bowtega_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Palgrave-Master-Languages/dp/0230013120/ref=pd_bowtega_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-1</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mastering Arabic Script, which is the best book for teaching handwriting in the ruq`a script</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Script-Handwriting-Languages/dp/1403941106/ref=sr_1_4/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-4">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Script-Handwriting-Languages/dp/1403941106/ref=sr_1_4/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-4</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mastering Arabic Grammar, the friendliest Arabic grammar textbook, though not comprehensive</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Grammar-Palgrave-Languages/dp/1403941092/ref=pd_bowtega_2/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-2">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Grammar-Palgrave-Languages/dp/1403941092/ref=pd_bowtega_2/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578599&sr=1-2</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Build Your Arabic Vocabulary, which supplements any Arabic course by providing word lists and exercises (arranged by topic) to enrich students' vocabulary</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Arabic-Vocabulary-Flashcards/dp/1903103193/ref=sr_1_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578799&sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Arabic-Vocabulary-Flashcards/dp/1903103193/ref=sr_1_1/026-6495132-6788426?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188578799&sr=1-1</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best wishes,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Haroon</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 01 Sep 2007</DIV></BODY></HTML>