Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf: The Complete Course for Beginners [Book] [2 ed.] 9780415430395, 9780415432290, 9780415432283, 9780415484626, 9780203883310, 9781138958128, 9781317305613

Table of contents :
Cover
Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to use this book
Pronunciation guide
Unit 1
1.1 Expressions of quantity
1.2 Orders and requests
1.3 'Please', 'Thank you', 'Be so kind'
Vocabulary
Cultural point: The Gulf States and the GCC
Reading Arabic
Unit 2
2.1 The Arabic equivalent of 'the'
2.2 The 'dual'
2.3 The plural
Vocabulary
Cultural point: History (1): the Portuguese
Reading Arabic
Unit 3
3.1 'How much/How many?'
3.2 Prices
3.3 Numbers 1 to 10
3.4 Greetings
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Food and cooking
Reading Arabic
Unit 4
4.1 Simple descriptive sentences
4.2 Noun-adjective phrases
4.3 Some other types of adjective
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Standard Arabic and Gulf Arabic
Reading Arabic
Unit 5
5.1 Numbers 11 to 1,000,000
5.2 Age
5.3 Telling the time
5.4 Personal pronouns
5.5 'Who?' and 'What?'
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Currencies, banknotes and stamps
Reading Arabic
Review Unit I
Unit 6
6.1 Expressions of place
6.2 The verb: past tense
Vocabulary
Cultural point: History (2): the British
Reading Arabic
Unit 7
7.1 Past-tense verbs: verbs beginning with a glottal stop
7.2 Past-tense verbs: 'hollow' verbs
7.3 'To say that …'
7.4 'To ask whether …'
7.5 li'ann 'because'
7.6 Expressions of manner
7.7 Further expressions of time
Vocabulary
Cultural point: The Islamic year
Reading Arabic
Unit 8
8.1 Noun phrases
8.2 The elative adjective
8.3 Word order
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Building traditions
Reading Arabic
Unit 9
9.1 Past-tense verbs: 'doubled' verbs
9.2 Past-tense verbs: 'weak' verbs
9.3 Time conjunctions
9.4 Ordinal numbers
9.5 Months
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Traditional dress: men
Reading Arabic
Unit 10
10.1 Relative clauses
10.2 Demonstrative pronouns
10.3 Demonstrative adjectives
10.4 The negative in equational sentences
10.5 'Somebody' and 'nobody'
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Traditional dress: women
Reading Arabic
Review Unit II
Unit 11
11.1 The imperfect verb: basic forms
11.2 The imperfect verb: different stem types
11.3 Review of verb forms
11.4 The uses of the imperfect
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Marriage: traditional and modern
Reading Arabic
Unit 12
12.1 Verb strings
12.2 The imperative: strong verbs
12.3 The imperative: other types of verb
12.4 The negative imperative
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Driving
Reading Arabic
Unit 13
13.1 The active participle
13.2 The passive participle
Vocabulary
Cultural point: In the market
Reading Arabic
Unit 14
14.1 The derived themes of the verb (1)
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Football
Reading Arabic
Unit 15
15.1 The verbal noun
15.2 Coordinated negatives
15.3 Compound adjectives
15.4 'Self'
Vocabulary
Cultural point: History (3): the Indians
Reading Arabic
Review Unit III
Unit 16
16.1 The derived themes of the verb (2)
16.2 Conditional sentences
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Tribes
Reading Arabic
Unit 17
17.1 Quadriliteral verbs
17.2 'To wish/want' and 'to prefer'
17.3 Verbs with double objects
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Religion, sect and ethnicity
Reading Arabic
Unit 18
18.1 Diminutives
18.2 Uses of ábu and umm
18.3 'How big!', etc.
18.4 'So-and-so'
18.5 Forms of personal address
18.6 Exhortations
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Pearls
Reading Arabic
Unit 19
19.1 Verb strings involving kaan/yikúun
19.2 More conjunctions
19.3 'As if'
19.4 Expressions meaning 'I think'
19.5 'Some' and 'each other'
19.6 Adverbs in -an
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Arabiizi
Reading Arabic
Unit 20
Texts
Vocabulary
Cultural point: Colloquial poetry
Reading Arabic
Answer key
Appendix 1: Variations in pronunciation
Appendix 2: The Arabic script
Gulf Arabic–English glossary
English–Gulf Arabic glossary

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