Munther Younes is Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University, USA. He is the co-author of the 'Arabiyyat al-Naas textbook series and the author of the following books: The Routledge Introduction to Qur'anic Arabic, Kalila wa Dimna for Students of Arabic, The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction and Charging Steeds or Maidens Doing Good Deeds: In search of the Original Qur'an, all published by Routledge.

Makda G. Weatherspoon is a Senior Lecturer of Arabic at Cornell University, USA where she is the Coordinator of the Elementary Arabic Program. She has also taught at Middlebury Language Program and worked as a Curriculum Developer of online Arabic materials at the University of Cambridge, Language Centre, UK. Prior to that, she worked as an English instructor with immigrants who were preparing to take their American citizenship tests. Makda is the co-author of 'Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One).

Jonathan Featherstone is Senior Teaching Fellow of Arabic at the University of Edinburgh where he leads on an intensive Master's degree in Arabic. Prior to this he taught Arabic at the Defence School of Languages in the UK, then at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Jonathan is also the author of BBC Talk Arabic.

Elizabeth (Lizz) Huntley is a current doctoral student in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. She holds master's degrees in Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language and in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan. She has taught Arabic at the college-level at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, and at the high school level with the Concordia Language Villages, the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, and of the STARTALK Arabic Summer Academy of the Boston Public Schools.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

UNIT 1: ARABIC ALPHABET AND NUMBERS

Lesson 1: I am a Student -

The Letters:

The Numbers: 1-10

Vocabulary: /

Grammar: The Arabic sentence ( )

Lesson 2: I am from.... - ....

The Letters:

The Numbers: 11-20

Vocabulary

Lesson 3: The city of ....is big or small? - ....

The Letters:

The Numbers: 10-100

Vocabulary: / /

Grammar: Introduction of the Construct

Lesson 4: The Weather -

The Letters and Diacritics:

The Numbers: 21-30

Vocabulary:

Grammar: The Definite Article ; Sun and Moon Letters -

Lesson 5: Is the Weather cold in April? -

The Letters: ( )

The Numbers: 100 and above

Vocabulary: () () ()

Grammar: Negation - (/ )

Lesson 6: I live in an apartment -

The Letters and Diacritics:

Vocabulary:

Grammar: Noun-Adjective Agreement

Lesson 7: I have one brother -

The Letter:

Vocabulary: ( ..)

Grammar: Possession (my, your, his, hers); Possession with ; + the Singular

Lesson 8: My sister is an engineer and has three children! - 62

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The Letters:

Vocabulary: / / / / / /

Grammar: The Singular, Dual and Plural

Lesson 9: I have an Arabic Lesson at 10 O'clock!

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The Letter:

Vocabulary //

Grammar: Number-Noun (Dis-)agreement

Lesson 10: The Arab Countries and their Capitals -

Review of Letters and Diacritics; Note on writing non-Arabic names

Vocabulary review; ()

Grammar: More on the iDaafa Construct -

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SECOND UNIT: WELCOME TO CAIRO!

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(Grammar)

Plural Pronouns; Plural Possession

: (Audio): (Maya Johnson)

: (reading): (Maya's Family)

(Grammar)

Noun-Adjective Agreement; Non-human Plurals

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The Nisba Adjective (); Arabic Equational Sentences (no verb to be in the present tense)

- - Unit Wrap-up and Additional Exercises

Sociolinguistic Corner (/)

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Expressing "to want" in Egyptian Arabic ()

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The past tense verb, stems

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: "" (Uber taxi services in Cairo)

Review of negation in

Sociolinguistic corner /

(Crossword puzzle)

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Possession: vs.

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Arabic Root Types

-: (Maya's Diary)

Hollow Verb Conjugation in the Past Tense; Definiteness possession and noun-adjective agreement

: "" ( )

Grammar Review: Noun-adjective phrases/iDaafa/Equational Sentences

Sociolinguistic Corner: /

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(Song):

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More on the Active Participle

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Sound and Broken Plural Patterns

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: - Maya's Diary

Direct Objects and Object Pronoun Suffixes

Sociolinguistic Corner: The Past Tense ( ) in and

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The Comparative

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The Present Tense ()

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The Particle in ; The Particle ; Adjectives with phrases

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Sociolinguistic Corner: The Present Tense ( ) in and ; Expressing "To Want" in both and

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More on the Present Tense in : The prefix ; Verb Negation

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Root Types: Doubled Roots in

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Note about (alif madda)

Negation of the present tense () in ; Expressing the Future in ; More uses of , The Case System in

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More on Plural Patterns

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The particle

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The Superlative; More examples of (the case system); Relative clauses modifying indefinite nouns

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Verb-subject (dis)agreement in

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Grammar Review: The Comparative and Superlative; Roots and families

Sociolinguistic Corner: / ; /

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Relative clauses modifying definite nouns ; The Resumptive (or Returning) Pronoun ( )

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Root Types: Assimilated Roots; Negation of the past tense in ; Dual agreement

Noun and Adjective Stems

Sociolinguistic Corner: - in and - in

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More on the present tense () in

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Root Types: Final-weak Roots

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; Case endings

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Expressing Possession in the Past Tense with ; ; Note on Stress in

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Passive Voice in ;

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... ; Moods of the Present Tense Verb

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Sociolinguistic corner: Relative Pronouns

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Root Types: Summary

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Review of / and

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; The Forms of the Arabic Verb; Forms I and VIII

Sociolinguistic Corner: ; Relative Pronouns; Arabic equivalents of English that

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The Imperative in

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Past Tense Negation with ; Form II and IV

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Sociolinguistic Corner:

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The use of to express past and future actions and states

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The Verbal Noun ()

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The Conjunction ; Looking up words in the dictionary

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; More on verb negation in

Sociolinguistic Corner: - -

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: Form VIII of Assimilated Roots

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: (the active and passive participle)

Negation in and

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Past Tense Negation with and Hollow Root Verbs; Form VII ()

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Verb Form Summary

Index of Grammatical Terms

Glossary