Looking for a convenient way to build your Arabic vocabulary without drills, books, homework or long lists to memorize? HOW DOES IT WORK? In this five-hour intermediate level audio course, Michel Thomas Method teachers Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar introduce over 600 new words and everyday phrases and the tools to allow you to create thousands more through the application of simple rules for building more words for concepts, people, places, adjectives and verbs. Learning alongside two genuine students, you will acquire essential language building blocks which allow you to increase your vocabulary in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out answers for yourself. You will learn at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary. You'll stick with it, because you'll love it. WHY IS IT SO SUCCESSFUL? Unlike most vocabulary courses which give you lists of words to memorize, the Michel Thomas Method based Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course allows you to further extend your vocabulary by unlocking what you already know . The course is designed to take advantage of the logical construction of Arabic, in which by altering words in predictable ways (e.g. by mimicking word patterns or adding regular prefixes and suffixes), you will exponentially build up your knowledge and understanding of the language. WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Whether you have learned from other Michel Thomas Method courses or are simply looking for a new approach to help improve your proficiency, the high-beginner to Intermediate level Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course will introduce you to a unique way of acquiring language that will significantly boost your confidence in your ability to speak and understand Arabic. It is a Phase 2 course and should be used after you have completed the Intermediate Arabic Course. The course teaches Egyptian Arabic, as this variety is understood throughout the Arabic-speaking world owing to its dissemination through film and popular culture. What's in the Course?* Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary Course includes five audio CDs. The booklet is available to download from www.michelthomas.com. *Note that the course content is the same as the previously entitled Arabic Vocabulary Builder+ course, but does not include a CD-ROM. LEARN ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME! Reclaim your pockets of free time to learn a new language! Don't be tied to chunky books or your computer, Michel Thomas Method audio courses let you learn whenever and wherever you want, in as little or as much time as you have. ...

A unique and perfectly brilliant way of learning languages

Vorwort
The original no-books, no-homework, no-memorizing course that gets you speaking and understanding Egyptian Arabic in weeks, not years. The revolutionary, stress-free Michel Thomas Method is in tune with the way the brain prefers to receive, store and retrieve information. It has helped over 5 million people learn a language.

Autorentext
Mahmoud Gaafar worked for the United Nations and Radio Cairo and now authors print, radio and TV resources for the Arab World.Michel Thomas (1914-2005) had an amazing life. Born in Poland, he spent his early years in Germany and then in France, where he studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. When war broke out, he fought with the Resistance and suffered imprisonment in labour camps. At the end of the war he joined the US liberation army and later settled in the US where he established his world-famous language school. Languages, being his strength and passion became the focus of the next 50 years of his life that he spent developing a method that he hoped would change the way we teach and learn - so that everyone could succeed. He developed this method 'that works with the brain'. After creating several courses of his own, he passed on his method so that other teachers might use it too.

Inhalt

• : INTRODUCTION
• : Part 1: Arabic root system and word patterns
• : Overview of Arabic roots: three root sounds
• : How to identify the root
• : Word patterns
• : Descriptive words (adjectives)
• •: The 'kareem' pattern
• •: The 'kasbaan' pattern
• •: The 'maHmood' pattern
• •: The 'kuwaiti' pattern
• : Comparing: the 'ashraf' pattern
• : Places: the 'madrasa' pattern
• : Professions: the 'fallaaH' pattern
• : Instruments: the 'muftaaH' pattern
• : Experts: the 'shagh-gheel' pattern
• : Part 2: Plurals
• : External
• •: -een ('fallaaHeen')
• •: -aat ('sandawitchaat')
• : Internal
• •: The 'bunook' pattern
• •: The 'ahraam' pattern
• •: The 'kutub' pattern
• •: The 'gimaal' pattern
• •: The 'falaafil' pattern
• •: The 'Oh la la!' pattern
• : Part 3: Arabic verbs
• : Present/future stems
• •: shrab drink
• •: fham understand
• •: ktib write
• •: dris study
• •: ftaH open
• •: lcab play
• •: shoof see
• •: rooH go
• •: zoor visit
• •: Tbukh cook
• : Past stems
• •: shirib drank
• •: fihim understood
• •: katab wrote
• •: daras studied
• •: fataH opened
• •: licib played
• •: shaaf/shuf saw
• •: raaH/ruH went
• •: zaar/zur visited
• •: Tabakh cooked
• : Verb varieties (forms)
• •: Introduction
• •: The 'fahhim' variety
• •: The 'it' variety ('itkallim')
• •: Recognizing other varieties
• •: the 'muHammad' pattern
• : Part 4: Two common roots
• : r/k/b the 'riding' root
• •: yirkab/rikib (to ride, eg bus, horse)
• •: raakib (riding, passenger)
• •: rakkeeb (expert rider)
• •: markoob (a mount, donkey + archaic 'pair of shoes'!)
• •: markib, maraakib (boat)
• •: marakbi (boatman)
• •: yirakkib (cause to ride, to mount, to fix), also cheat at cards
• •: yitrakkib (to be fixed)
• : kh/r/g the 'exiting' root
• •: yukhrug/kharag (to exit, go out)
• •: makhrag (exit, way out, place of exit)
• •: khaarig (going out)
• •: yitkharrag (to graduate)
• •: mitkharrag min (a graduate of)
• •: yistakhrag (to extract - to seek to take out?)
• •: mustakhrig (extractor)
• •: mustakhrag (extracted)
• •: mukhrig (director [of film])
• : CONCLUSION