Bookbaby Egyptian Arabic: Easy Stories With English Translations

This book does exactly what it says on the cover and I found it to be very easy to follow along with the text and I learning so much in just a short time. The stories are enjoyable to read and keep you engaged. The lessons get progressively harder as you go along. The audio is of High quality and easy to follow for a beginner. I have many Arabic books but this is the best one by far.To get the audio for this book you will have to sign up to Talk in Arabic , then email them and tell them you have purchased the book. Once you have done that they will add the audio to your account. You can follow along to the book on line or download the audio. It might take them a few days to get back to you. The audio quality is excellent and it is at a pace that a beginner can follow along easily.

This book is a great addition to other Egyptian listening / reading books that I own. The beginner stories are aimed at high beginners so I did find myself referring to the vocab section and other resources from time to time for words that I did not know but then that is the point of vocabulary building.The font used is large and clear which helps a great deal and the accompanying audio is spoken very clearly and is a pleasure to listen to.The stories include dialog between the characters which is a great help and a great tool.I am currently working my way through the second story as I myself am a beginner but I am looking forward to reading each one and I am interested in the use of the high frequency terms with which these stories have been written.Overall I think this book is a great addition to the ones I currently own and I think it will be a great tool for me to use in order to progress with my learning.

It's a great tool to help you learn Arabic! However, I would prefer to have had the English translation on the opposite page to the page and not at the end of the book.

Bought this purchase following reviews and contacted them in their website to receive the audio. Very good book when used with this to improve spoken Arabic dialect!

When you have completed lessons 1 - 11 as well as you learned Arabic Script from Lesson 17 in Kullu Tamam (the best grammar/text book in Egyptian Arabic), then you can start working with these Easy Stories. The audio available for the book is excellent, just create an account at talkinarabic dot com, and sent request for the audio files.I used to have Classical Arabic training, and now I am learning Egyptian, and this book is terribly useful. Very important to pick Kullu Tamam (by M. Woidich) or Ernest Abdel-Massih's grammar book; forget about Kalaam Gamiil or Kallimni Arabi, they gave zero or terribly lousy and inferior grammar coverage that is needed to be efficient with the Easy Stories book. The Egyptian Arabic Reader books from Lingualism are another great series, so fortunately we have enough books to learn from. Just remember to learn grammar first from Kullu Tamam.