An Introduction to Modern Arabic

This guide's focus is modern literary Arabic, particularly the style employed by newspapers. Each chapter begins with a text embodying the points to be discussed, and the carefully chosen vocabulary terms are those that arise most often in spoken and written Arabic. A vocabulary list appears in the appendix.

The beginning student of Arabic who has had no previous acquaintance with
Semitic languages, will be impressed by the difference between the structure of
Arabic and that of English or other Indo-European languages which he may know
.1 The most characteristic feature of the ... Although this system has a certain
convenience once one has mastered Arabic, it tends to be confusing to a
beginner and accordingly this book uses traditional English terminology for parts
of speech.