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Title: Not good for beginners
Review: This book has a lot of good things except it is more constructed as a class text book than a teach yourself book. The tapes are okay, but I wish it was longer. This book DOES NOT have phonetics written out to help the user pronounce the words. The examples are written in Arabic and you will have to decifer what it means by remembering what the Arabic letters sounds like. In other words, the book does not have examples of how to pronounce. You will have to learn the pronunciation of the alphabetics and put it together to form or read words. It wasn't easy for me because I could have been doing it all wrong and wouldn't even know it. The tapes can sometime be hard to mimick because with every language there are always something you are missing when speaking. I would only recommend this book to someone who is somewhat already familiar with the Arabic language, not a beginner who have never been exposed to Arabic.
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