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Paperback Making Out in Arabic Book

ISBN: 0804835411

ISBN13: 9780804835411

Making Out in Arabic

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Book Overview

Making Out in Arabic is a fun, accessible and thorough Arabic phrase book and guide to the Arabic language as it's really spoken.

Anaa majnuun bihubbik Hal mumkin an naltaqya marra ukhraa?--(I'm crazy about you Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Arabic and you may be going on a date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap Arabic classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios but chances are while in the Middle East you will spend a lot more time trying to make new friends or start new romances--something you may not be prepared for.

If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to the Arab World and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use Arabic phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Arabic has been carefully designed to act as a guide to modern colloquial Arabic for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the sort of catchy Arabic expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. As well as the Romanized forms, each expression is now given in authentic Arabic script, so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with.

This Arabic phrasebook includes: A guide to pronouncing Arabic words correctly. Explanations of basic Arabic grammar, such as, pronouns questions, and negation. Romanized forms of words and phrases. Complete Arabic translations including Arabic script. Useful and interesting notes on Arabic language and culture. Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other phrasebooks.
Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian, Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More Making Out in Japanese.

Customer Reviews

3 ratings

An Ok book, with some reservations

As stated in other reviews, this is in Modern Standard Arabic, not colloquial. MSA is almost always formal, used mostly in writing or instances where native dialects aren't always intelligible (For instance Iraqis have a hard time understanding Moroccans). Colloquial Arabic varies a lot from region to region, so a book of idioms for say Saudi Arabia would be less than fully usefull in Algeria. Another point is that while this book tries to be as gender-neutral as possible (Using 'ma ismuk' instead of 'ma ismuka' or 'ma ismuki'), there are some sentences where it is unavoidable. While you can at times guess the gender from the context, the book makes no statement as to the gender the sentence applies to, nor how to change it. Overall however, I enjoyed the book. The transliteration isn't too bad, and it gives the sentences in the Arabic script as well. It even has notes on which phrases are more insulting in Arabic than their English equivalents. At the very least it's great for breaking the tension in Arabic classes, or joking with your friends.

Practical phrases for making friends & communicating

This is a small phrasebook, but the phrases listed are very modern and practical. The book is broken down into sections (What's Up, Basic Phrases, Got A Minute, Hey There, Look At That, Coming & Going, Eat Drink & Be Merry, I Like It, Curses & Insults, Party Talk, Getting Serious, Lovers Language, The Other Side) and has the English phrase, the phrase in Arabic, and the pronunciation. Some knowledge of Arabic language & pronunciation would be helpful, but not totally necessary. Overall a great book for only $8

Finally, the phrases you wanted to know how to say.

While very far from an instruction-type foreign language book, this slim volume provides a useful and entertaining selection of colloquial phrases in Arabic. Sections include greetings, parties, cursing, arguing, dating, and sex. Some of the latter are quite explicit. Some of the phrases come with helpful notes on cultural standards regarding their usage. My only criticisms might be that the pronunciation guide is not very complete, and the grammar notes at the beginning are too brief.
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