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This highly illustrated textbook is both a reference and activity book for all beginners and early intermediate students of Arabic. Each of the units in the book is divided into two sections with the first section suitable for early beginners, and the second section for late beginners or early intermediate students.

Featuring a wide range of engaging activities with a wealth of illustrations, this practice book provides lively and enjoyable exercises using reading and writing skills and some conversation for intermediate students of Arabic.

This textbook is an engaging, highly illustrated guide to learning handwriting as opposed to the printed form of the Arabic script. The book teaches Arabic handwriting in the form universally used by adult native speakers (riq'a) and compares it with naskh, the usual printed form.

A practice book in developing Arabic skills in reading and writing through engaging and highly illustrated exercises, designed to increase confidence in and understanding of basic Arabic.

This is a modern, engaging, intermediate Arabic course offering lively dialogues, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights.

Two audio CDs are available to accompany this course. The book and CDs are also available together in a pack.Mastering Arabic 1 is the most lively, accessible and carefully-paced Arabic course on the market. It is aimed at beginners with little or no previous knowledge of the language who want to understand, speak and read Arabic confidently.Mastering Arabic 1: is the bestselling course, suitable for study at home or in the classroom teaches Modern Standard Arabic, the universal language of the Arab world understood by all Arabic speakers covers a useful variety of situations you will encounter in the Arab world offers a gradual introduction to the language, script and structures through audio, video, stories and easy-to-follow explanations includes hundreds of lively exercises to help you practise what you've learntThis new edition features: an attractive full colour page design and a wealth of illustrations and photos online video on our free-to-access website with associated exercises in the book new conversational sections which encourage you to get speaking right from the startAuthors Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar share many years' experience in a combination of teaching, educational publishing and communication in the Arab world.Mastering Arabic 1 is also available in a complete pack with 2 CDs (ask for ISBN 978-1-137-38045-6). The CDs can be purchased separately (ISBN 978-1-137-38043-2). www.palgrave.com/masteringarabic hosts a huge range of extra activities, videos integrated into this book, transcripts of the audio, a link to interactive flashcards and much more.

There are optional extra sections with explanations and activities covering the grammatical case endings used in formal, literary and religious Arabic. Aimed at beginners or early intermediate learners of Arabic, Mastering Arabic Grammar is ideal for both self-study use and classroom courses.

This lively course teaches Mandarin Chinese to a broad range of learners in a modern, structured and engaging way. Pinyin, the standard system of spelling using the Roman alphabet to transliterate Chinese, is also included to help build confidence.