Hi Nadeem, thanks for your comment. Hmm perhaps, but this book is not meant to be a comprehensive textbook to learn Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic.

It is a book that introduces the 101 most used verbs and shows students the many ways a verb can be used to carry multiple meanings. And what better way to demonstrate that but through sentences. In addition, this book comes with a CD that contains an audio recording of all sentences.

In my opinion, it did what it set out to do. The book is a very valuable resource for students who know how to navigate the book and make full use of it.

I agree with you with regards to the mediocre quantity of Arabic books. Production of books in Arabic dialects is even more limited than MSA. Like any other Arabic learners, I hope that more attention and investments can be catered towards producing high-quality Arabic resources.

Genereally, the production of Arabic books for MSA and dialects is still mediocre, for the huge lack of investments and creativity, One has only to compare modern languages textbooks for English, Fench, Spanish, etc to see the tremendous difference in quality and quantity.

thank you..i ll check tandem out!

Have the 2 books been useful for you? It’s okay if you don’t have anyone to sit with you – just try to include whatever you learned from the books in conversations. That way, you’ll remember words and phrases better. If there are no Arabic speaking communities in your country, perhaps you can check out language apps like Tandem to search for language partners! Lyn