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re: Basic Arabic

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: Jason Hare <parousia_occ AT yahoo.com>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: re: Basic Arabic
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 18:20:27 -0500

salaamaat ya Jason,

On basic Arabic for private study in the US, you probably need to start
with
Foregin Service Institute's
Basic Saudi Arabic
I believe it comes with 10 tapes and can be ordered thru
General Services Administration, Washington, DC
or Audio-Forum, a group in Conneticut. Both places about $200.
the Saudi dialect is close to Jordanian and Sudanese Arabic and provides a
good base for whichever dialect you end up with as well as for modern
written Arabic.

If you are doing this for basic Hebrew background, I would recommend
attaining fluency in modern Hebrew before Arabic. (This advice is as a
speaker of both.)

aTyaab taHiyyaati
Randall Buth

re: Basic Arabic, yochanan bitan, 04/01/2000