Publication date: 1997
Number of pages: 300.
Language: Arabic, English.
Format / Quality: pdf, good.
"Let's Read the Arabic Newspapers" is a newspaper reader which is designed to help American and English-speaking leaers of Arabic get started reading the newspapers of the Arab world. The author, Howard Rowland, Ph.D. , retired as an Arabic instructor at the Defense Language Institute, and is a specialist in the field of Romance linguistics. ".
Opinion:
This book is a godsend for intermediate students. It features authentic texts from Arabic newspapers in clear font, translations into English in the back and a friendly, cheery ending. I only wish it had been available when I started reading Arabic newspapers. It can save you a year or two of painful dictionary work if you read through it carefully.
Big minus - the texts are all from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some are funny, but some are deadly boring. Surely this is a matter of taste, but still.e are funny, but some are deadly boring. Surely this is a matter of taste, but still.
Number of pages: 300.
Language: Arabic, English.
Format / Quality: pdf, good.
"Let's Read the Arabic Newspapers" is a newspaper reader which is designed to help American and English-speaking leaers of Arabic get started reading the newspapers of the Arab world. The author, Howard Rowland, Ph.D. , retired as an Arabic instructor at the Defense Language Institute, and is a specialist in the field of Romance linguistics. ".
Opinion:
This book is a godsend for intermediate students. It features authentic texts from Arabic newspapers in clear font, translations into English in the back and a friendly, cheery ending. I only wish it had been available when I started reading Arabic newspapers. It can save you a year or two of painful dictionary work if you read through it carefully.
Big minus - the texts are all from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some are funny, but some are deadly boring. Surely this is a matter of taste, but still.e are funny, but some are deadly boring. Surely this is a matter of taste, but still.