Arabic-L:PEDA:EA Course Responses

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Date: 17 Aug 1999
From: AHMED KHORSHID <KHORSHID at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: EA Course Response

Dear Nancy,

By far the best book I've ever seen, and used, for teaching introductory
CA is "ahlan wa sahlan" by Wadie Boutros, dar en-nashr Hatier.
Unfortunately, the explanation and vocabulary are given in French. Not
surprisingly, I couldn't use it at the American University in Cairo.
However, I do use it for private tutoring. In this case, I supply the
English translation myself. The dialogs are in both Arabic script and
Latin script, but the exercises are in Latin only. I've also found a
solution to this problem that I'm willing to share with you if you are
interested. The advantages of this book are:

1. good order of presenting grammar.
2. close relationship between grammatical points and dialogs.
3. good choice of words.
4. it's accompanied by three good-quality audio tapes.

Your second choice may be "anistuuna" by Nahid Awni, (I think) AUC press.
It's in English, but doesn't compare to the first.

Hope this helps.

Ahmad Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
The American University in Cairo

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Date: 17 Aug 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: EA Course Response

Greetings / ahalan wa sahalan...

You might check the American University of Cairo (AUC) Press, which published
a series of textbooks for foreign students interested in the Cairene dialect.
They were paperbacks (if I recall correctly) and appeared in the
early/mid-1980s. Several audiocassette tapes may have accompanied the texts,
which emphasized basic conversations and most-frequent social events and
occasions. Loaded with colloquialisms (baladiyaat).

U of Michigan also might have some AE texts, more likely including Arabic
text, rather than burdensome transliteration such as appeared in the first
volume of the AUC publications.

That's about all I can remember about the Cairene materials, as I am more
specialized in dialectology and in arabization of foreign terms in the
Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region.

Hope this helps.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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Date: 17 Aug 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: EA Course Response

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