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Title: "Guess the meaning of the following word from context."
Review: Will not continue in a class that uses this text. The glossary is seriously incomplete. The text will use Arabic words that were used (but not necessarily emphasized)in Alif Baa and previous chapters and not translate them. Not all of them are in (the blue) A-E dictionary. Lots of wasted time looking up words instead of using or memorizing them.It asks the student to play guessing games -- what if you guess wrong!! Now you have to un-learn something.The DVDs are ok, but, as with those of the pre-cursor text, none of the students in my class could hear the words clearly so that we could spell them. Most of us were starting from zero Arabic.Not the text for those with a full time job and other committments.
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