ARABIC-L: PEDA: Textbooks Query

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Date: 28 Apr 1999
From: "Nadia G. Yaqub" <nyaqub at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Textbooks

I am posting this message for a friend who will be teaching a 5-week, 6
hour per week Arabic course in Seattle.  The students are community
members with a variety of goals--some are interested in Business Arabic,
others in just learning some words before a planned trip to the M.E., and
others have more academic interests.  As currently organized, the course
involves a combination of MSA and something approximating educated spoken
Arabic. Majid, who will be teaching the course will be keeping the
combined format, but is having trouble finding suitable textbooks.  He is
using Alif Baa by Brustad et al. which he finds to be satisfactory, but
would like some advice on good textbooks that teach dialect (preferably a
Levantine dialect, but Egyptian would also be fine).  He is not interested
in textbooks that use transliteration rather than the Arabic script for
teaching dialect.  Any suggestions or advice that you can provide would be
much appreciated.  Majid can be reached at:

mshihade at u.washington.edu

Thanks, Nadia

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