Internet Arabic (Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies)

Arabic word lists are largely hit and miss, but I was pleasantly surprised by this work. It's very up to date and gives words that are essential in this day and age, but too recent to be included in any of the dictionaries or vocabularies. A must for anyone who works with Arabic/English and Internet.

I found this book fascinating as well as useful. Its up-to-date terminology is much needed in this ever growing world of digital technology. As an educator, I totally recommend it to all translators, learners and teachers of Arabic.

Although Arabic is a widely spoken language in the world, and the number of internet users in Arabic- speaking regions has grown very fast in the last few decades, users still suffer from shortage of standardized references, dictionaries and glossaries of technical, computing and internet terminology .Internet Arabic is a concise, handy, up to date glossary of internet terminology in English with the accurate equivalent in Arabic. It is divided into 13 thematic chapters that include easy-to-learn lists, which makes it very accessible to specialists in the field and learners of both languages, Arabic and English.As a translator, I would confidently recommend Internet Arabic for translators who work with computing and internet terminology, especially website localization and mobile application localization in Arabic where translators need rich, accurate one word equivalent for the technical English term.I have some reservations on the Arabic translation of few English terms like Spam page 67, and SMS alerts pg 48, but overall the Arabic terms were linguistically accurate, and expressed the exact meaning in the source language especially in chapter 9, E-Learning, and chapter 10, Online Social Networking.