Arabic Stories for Language Learners

Great book.thank you team Amazon.

Expected vocabulary in english for words in stories and also similar to as given in korian stories by julie damron Eunsun You

Veru useful for extending your Arabic vocabulary.

Excellent book for learners. It also helps that the stories are available in YouTube to read along.

I bought this book for myself as I am taking Arabic lessons but wanted some extra help for reading outside class. The book is set out like a classic bilingual book, with the Arabic text on the left-hand page and the English translation on the right. The translation is fairly literal which is a great help when comparing vocabulary and structures. The stories range from half a page to several pages, and are very varied in terms of language level and vocabulary. The only downsides to this book are that there are very few written short vowels, but the audio CD included makes up for this; and the fact that the stories are not numbered - I had to write numbers in to match the stories with the audio track. These are very minor issues, however, and I would highly recommend this book for language learners! This book would also be suitable for children.

I found this really useful as a guide to my language learning, particularly using both the audio and the text versions. It uses a variety of tales, mostly quite old-fashioned and set in the past to teach quite a wide vocabulary. It may be quite useful to those learners who learned their first Arabic through the medium of current affairs and who now wish to expand their vocabulary into more social settings and learn the words that can occur often in daily life but are rare in media Arabic. This is particularly true for those whose Arabic is modern standard, rather than dialectical. None of the texts is long, running to a few pages at most. The audio is quite slow, but not so slow it feels awkward, so is very good for the learner. It is usually quite easy to work out the meaning of unknown words from context, so might be handy for those who want a change from learning lists of vocabulary. Recommended for learners of Arabic who have already got to grips with the basics and wish to broaden their skills. It is probably not a suitable vehicle for learning for absolute novices - they should probably wait to acquire this until they have a good grounding in the basic grammar and vocabulary of Arabic.

I like that stories are short and easy to read. Used vocabulary is not so hard and is mostly useful.