ARABIC-L: PEDA: A Reader in Modern Standard Arabic?

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1) Subject: Is there a reader in Modern Standard Arabic?

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Date: 17 Feb 1999
From: Grover Furr <FURRG at alpha.montclair.edu>
Subject: Is there a reader in Modern Standard Arabic?

     I should like to ask the help of the learned teachers on this
list, as I have several times in the past.

     A "reader" in Modern Standard Arabic would be very helpful to me
at this stage of my teaching myself Arabic. I'd like to know if there
is one available. I mean one with annotations and vocabulary, and
modern or contemporary MSA texts.

     When I studied Russian and Chinese in the past, there were any
number of excellent readers of this nature, and they were very
helpful. Needless to say, there are many, many more for the student of
the more common European languages - French, Spanish, German, Italian.

     Is there one or, hopefully, several, available for students of
MSA? They needn't be for _English_-speaking students; something for
French, or German, or Italian, or Spanish, speakers would do just as
well, since I read those languages well.

Sincerely,


Grover C. Furr
English Department              |       Phone: (973) 655-7305
Montclair State University      |       email:
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043       |   furrg at alpha.montclair.edu

   "When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I
    asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."
                        --Dom Helder Camara

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