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Title: Too technical; no pedagogic value
Review: This book doesn't teach you the Arabic language. It rehashes the complex grammatical concepts that make up the language. It does not use the Arabic script at all. Unlike other Hugo books I've used, this one is more ABOUT Arabic rather than how to really use it. Unfortunately, most of the Arabic instruction books I've purchased are similarly flawed. Any 6 year old kid in Palestine knows how to speak the language, but I'll bet he wouldn't have clue as to what diptotes are and I doubt he has memorized the 10 derived verb forms or the innumerable patterns for broken plurals. He just parrots what he has heard from his parents and learns to associate sounds with objects, concepts and actions. Hopefully someday someone will get a clue and produce a book based on the simple, natural language acquisition method we've all used to speak our mother tongue.
