Rosetta Stone. It's expensive, but many public libraries now carry it. Our library even has it available online at any hour of the day and night, and they have the Arabic version. I'm finding it very easy to follow.

Pimsleur's Egyptian Arabic cds.


Although, just to let you know...I signed up for an Arabic language course, and it is HARD to learn!!!!! (i had to drop the class because I've been ill, but....)

PLEASE make sure that your daughter understands that she will probably not pick it up overnight, but to keep practicing, and keep working...it is a really hard language to learn.

There was also a thread on bhuz about this a while back. Here's a link to the thread, if you're interested: www.bhuz.com/forum/trave...ur-trip.html

My copy of Pimsleur's Egyptian Arabic part 1 CD arrived in the mail yesterday. I've been working with it today while tooling around in my car.

First impression - I really like it!

1. I really like the way the lesson is structured! First they have you listen to a brief conversation between a man and a woman.

2. Then they take the very first thing the man said, tell you what the complete sentence means, then take each word at a time telling you what it means and giving you lessons in pronouncing each word, one syllable at a time.

3. If the vocabulary word would be different for a man than for a woman, it teaches you the difference. For example, if saying "you" to a man, it's "enta", but if saying "you" to a woman, it's "enti".

4. It pays extra attention to sounds that exist in Arabic but not in English, pointing them out and giving you some practice time with them.

I feel like it's really teaching me to speak/pronounce and understand what I'm hearing, which is what I wanted from it. Unfortunately, my brain retains info best from what it sees, and not so well from what it hears, so I'm having to play it over and over to retain it. But that's my limitation in how I learn, and not the fault of the program.

I've gotten about 15 minutes into it so far. I've learned how to say "Excuse me", "Do you understand English?", "Do you understand Arabic?", "I understand English," "I understand Arabic," "Yes sir," "Yes ma'am," "Are you American?" and "I understand a little." It also has "yes" and "no" in that section, but I already knew those. Still, it's good to practice matching the pronunciation.

I plan to work with this every time I go anywhere in my car from now through June, to prepare myself for my upcoming trip to Egypt!

I 'm in agreement with the Rosetta Stone. My extended family uses it even to expand their multi language culture. its a good help!

Tonight I finished Lesson 1. I've been listening to it over and over, mastering each little sub-lesson before continuing, and tonight I finally reached the end of it. In the pack of CD's I got, there were 10 lessons. So, one down, 10 to go. And then, once I finish those, there are additional CD's I can order.

I really like the Pimsleur's format. In fact, even though I speak French fluently, I'm tempted to get their French series just to see if working with it will help me reduce my American accent!

I just ordered a gently-used copy of Pimsleur program from Amazon for $20 plus $4 shipping: cheapest Rosetta Stone program I could find was $300. Many thanks for thoughtful suggestions.

Hi,
I'm using survivalphrases.com/arabic/guest.php, same you get free podcasts and right know you can sign up for free and get 10 PDF or a lifetime membership for $25

I learned a few words so far, it's been fun !

Happy Learning

Sadira

www.arabianmountainspice.com