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Title: The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Arabic by Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein ISBN: 0-19-436197-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but...
Comment: This book is very beautifully illustrated and has a great range of vocabulary. However, like some other reviewers have mentioned, it is definitely not directed towards beginning arabic students. While it is true that most arabic texts do not have the vowel markings (fatha, damma, etc) they are necessary when first learning the word in the absence of hearing someone actually pronounce the word. My suggestion to the company if they want to exclude the vowels would be to include a cd. This book is very useful for everyday vocab however there is always the risk of mispronunciation with the lack of markings. I would recommend the Milet Bilingual Picture dictionary instead or in addition to this one as it has the vowel markings and is more useful for students of Arabic.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not for Beginning Arabic speakers
Comment: For someone who has been studying Arabic for several years now, I find this book extremely useful. It presents indispensable everyday words that I don't think I would have learned as quickly without this book. And I love having an excuse to pore through a book with lots of pictures....they offer a unique visual tool that helps me remember the words even better. The fact that the vowels are absent is a good thing for the intermediate learner because you can test yourself by voweling them and check your work in the Hans Wehr. One caution for the beginning Arabic speaker...if you don't have a good grasp of Arabic grammar and can't recognize when the authors are using the Arabic term as an imperative, present tense, noun, adjective, etc. and don't understand how to change from their tense to the tense you want for speaking or writing, you'll probably be saying a lot of things wrong. But you'll encounter this problem with any Arabic text.
Rating: 3
Summary: Primarily for Arabs learning English (ESL) NOT FOR KIDS!!!
Comment: As others have noticed, this book seems largely geared toward Arabic speakers seeking to learn English and seems especially great for those trying to get practice reading English. The exercises on the bottom of the pages, for example, seem geared toward practicing English rather than practicing Arabic. The index lists both words in English and Arabic but only gives a pronunciation guide for the English words, not the Arabic words which are not, so far as I can tell, transliterated into English anywhere in this book or even voweled.
If you are English speaker studying Arabic, however, this book is of unique value in one respect. Most written Arabic language methods that I've seen put English transliterations very close to words in Arabic script which means you tend to memorize the transliterated sounds with the definition rather than learning to recognize the word as written in Arabic. This book really allows for the kind of visual memorization that seems central to learning to read Arabic. That makes this book a good addition to Mace's TEACH YOURSELF BEGINNING ARABIC SCRIPT which tries to teach "whole word recognition" Arabic (rather than just sounding out) but doesn't lay out its pages or present its material in a way that really supports that.
Even so, it would have been better in this book if the pronunciations- or even just the voweled versions of the words- were given some place. A simple modification like that would make the book of nearly equal value to English speakers.
Another beef I have with this book is the 4-8 age group recomendation. The book is of limited usefulness to adult English speakers seeking to learn Arabic. English speaking children would just be lost. And unless the Arabic speaking child in question is a little genius with good reading skills in his or her own language and some proficiency in basic English alphabet and phonetics, this is probably better for junior high level practice or perhaps as a guide to parents seeking to tutor their children in English as a second language.
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Title: Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr, J. Milton Cowan ISBN: 0879500034 Publisher: Spoken Language Services Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 201 Arabic Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Forms by Raymond P. Scheindlin ISBN: 0812005473 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage by N.S. Doniach, Safa Khulusi ISBN: 0198643217 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar: A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Arabic by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar ISBN: 0844246050 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Your First 100 Words in Arabic : Beginner's Quick & Easy Guide to Demystifying Non-Roman Scripts by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar, NTC Publishing Group, NTC ISBN: 0844223956 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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