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Title: Al-Kitab is adequate at best.
Review: I'm about to graduate college and have studied arabic for 3 years (after this semester). 2 of those years I have used Al-Kitab. All in all, its not the greatest book. The vocabulary is rather obsolete; in the first chapter you learn how to say United Nations (because that comes up in conversation regularly in the Arab world RIIIGHHHHTT???). The way the book explains grammar is confusing to native english speakers and the DVD will break on you...so plan on getting a back up. If you plan on getting al-kitab for independent study...GOOD LUCK!!! I only succeeded because I was under the care of a professor, al-kitab had little to do with my success. For independent study, i'd try rosetta stone, its a bit more expensive, but its easier to grasp than the lessons in Al-kitab. Good luck, arabic is a very difficult language to learn.
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