Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News Paperback – Import, 7 October 2007

This book can only be useful if done with a teacher. If you do not need a teacher for this book then your Arabic is so advanced and almost fluent that there is no point in buying the book. This is really only a study aid for in-class teaching.

Missing Audio, otherwise would be perfect.

Super Lehrbuch für Medienarabisch.Kann ich auf jeden Fall weiter empfehlen.Sehr gute Vorbereitung für die Sprachpraxis und für den Wortschatz.

For students who have already attained a good level of proficiency reading modern standard Arabic texts, this is a very helpful book. It's structure is unique in that it presents words and concepts in short bursts and then shows them using example paragraphs - not essays. As you work your way through, you learn 6 words, then see them in a paragraph. Learn six more words, then read them in another paragraph. Then you practice using 6 of those words in a paragraph. Unlike other textbooks where you learn 30-40 words at a time and then look for them in a 3 page essay, this allows for easy digestion, repetition, and memorization. The words that it presents are very useful.Also, at the end there is a very useful glossary of terms organized by topics.

The Arabic library could be the poorest among the widely-spread-languages libraries when it comes to the books in which are available for learning and teaching it; I don't mean to criticize the huge effort that's been put by the author to execute this book and make it available the way it looks now, however, I wish to see this book as a part of a series talking about the same concept (Media Arabic) because it cannot stand by itself even to intermediated learners from my own point of view. For example, a teacher/tutor guide will be a great addition.I would also suggest that it would be even better to support the plain texts and vocabularies with some audio/video materials since the book is about media more than any other aspect of the language which definitely depends on the audio/video communication.I'm using this book to teach intermediate to advanced Arabic learners along with a quite number of materials prepared for each lesson in order to communicate the selected texts and excerpts but that won't be the case for other learners.