Scenes from Yemeni life (Yemeni dialect)

Usborne, 2004. 64p. This delightful picture word book provides a fun and engaging way for beginners to learn Arabic. The large, colourful and panoramic scenes are surrounded by small pictures labelled with their names in Arabic. Bright and amusing pictures provide lots of opportunities for conversation. - Busy scenes with 1000 small pictures labelled in Arabic - Arabic words also written in Roman letters - Easy-to-use pronunciation guide - Simple...

57 p. Audio: 64 kb/s A book of advanced level Yemeni Arabic, with excellent audio. The course consists of dialogues about every day life (health, marriage, food), but in natural speed and with a lot of useful vocabulary and idioms.

Brill, 2005. 290 p. This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which investigates the methods and insights developed in the European context and how these can be applied to the domain of Arabic. It also deals briefly with the problems of the historical development of the modern Arabic dialects. With the help of 112 maps it examines topics such as types of maps, interpretation...

Luzac and Co., London, 1901. 356 p. Languages: english/arabic Arabic manual, a colloquial handbook in the Syrian dialect for the use of visitors to Syria and Palestine, containing a simplified grammar, a comprehensive English and Arabic vocabulary and dialogue, the whole in English characters carefully transliterated, the pronunciation being fully indicated.

University of Michigan, Dept. of Near Eastern studies, 1978. - xiii + 335 p. A Course in Levantine Arabic (1974, revised 1978) is designed for college students and business and government employees who intend to use Levantine Arabic for travel, business or government service. Although the dialect taught here can be used and clearly understood in Beirut and Damascus, it represents basically the Palestinian dialect as spoken in Jerusalem.

Publisher: al-Sabahi Press, 2002. 221 p. Audio: 64 kb/s Since February 2002, English translations by Janet Watson of episodes from a popular Yemeni radio series called Mus’id wa Mus’ida, written and produced by Abd al-Rahman Mutahhar since 1988, have been published in the Yemen Times. This book contains fifty such episodes, each of which takes the form of a spirited, often acrimonious dialogue between husband (Mus’id) and wife (Mus’ida); and each...

Washington, D.C.: 1984. 404 p. Instructional materials for beginning Sanaani Arabic, a dialect used predominantly for oral communication, include 40 units consisting of text derived from recordings of spontanous conversations of native speakers in various communication situations. Some of the lesson topics are: greetings, getting acquainted, appointments, telephone conversations, shopping, education, mailing letters, telling time, directions, ho...

Washington, D.C.: 1984. 291 p. Instructional materials for advanced Sanaani Arabic, a dialect used predominantly for oral communication, include 25 units consisting of text derived from recordings of spontaneous conversations of native speakers in various communication situations. Some of the topics are: medical services, marriage, jobs, an interview, a car accident, proverbs and sayings, Yemen, informing others, public baths, and circumcision....

Georgetown University Press, 2005. 400 p. Originally published under the title Jerusalem Arabic, "Eastern Arabic" is the gold standard for anyone beginning to learn the Arabic spoken by the Palestinians, or those who live in Syria or Lebanon. The "Levantine" Arabic, or Jerusalem dialect, is a central Middle Eastern dialect and recognized by Arabs virtually anywhere - in large part due to the Palestinian diaspora - and a good choice for anyone wis...

Georgetown University Press, 2005. 400 p. Audio: 64 kb/s Originally published under the title Jerusalem Arabic, "Eastern Arabic" is the gold standard for anyone beginning to learn the Arabic spoken by the Palestinians, or those who live in Syria or Lebanon. The "Levantine" Arabic, or Jerusalem dialect, is a central Middle Eastern dialect and recognized by Arabs virtually anywhere - in large part due to the Palestinian diaspora - and a good choice...