Tag: Arabic

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Origins, Developments and Current Directions


Free Download Andrea Facchin, "Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Origins, Developments and Current Directions"
English | ISBN: 946372060X | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language concentrates on the origins, developments and current directions of the discipline Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) within the Arab world and partially outside of it during the last 60 years, namely between 1958 and 2018. Considered in this volume are the most influential scholars, authors, educators and those significant works that have contributed to the development of the discipline. In addition, special attention is paid to the TAFL institutes, regarded as epicenters of TAFL activities and important meetings, that allow scholars to gather around the same table and discuss approaches, trends and methods used in the field. All of these aspects converge in one comprehensive study which is enriched by a narration of the main sociopolitical changes that have affected the Middle East in latter-day history.

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Arabic Into Latin in the Middle Ages The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context


Free Download Arabic Into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context By Charles S. F. Burnett
2009 | 412 Pages | ISBN: 0754659437 | PDF | 18 MB
This collection of Charles Burnett’s articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century translations made in Southern Italy, translators working in Sicily and the Principality of Antioch at the beginning of the 12th century, the first of the 12th-century Iberian translators, the beginnings and development of ‘professional’ translation activity in Toledo, and the transfer of this activity from Toledo to Frederick II’s entourage in the 13th century. Most of the articles include editions of texts that either illustrate the style and character of the translator or provide the source material for his biobibliography.

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All Strangers Are Kin Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World


Free Download Zora O’Neill, "All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World"
English | 2016 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0547853181, 9774168658 | EPUB | 3,7 mb
"The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, in the first moment of outright humor in class, that you don’t ask a waiter, ‘Excuse me, where is the pigeon?’ – or, conversely, order a roasted toilet."

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Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa


Free Download Sergio Baldi, "Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa"
English, العربية | ISBN: 9004438475 | 2020 | 456 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa analyzes around 3000 Arabic loanwords in more than 50 languages in the area, and completes the work started in a previous similar work on West Africa.

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Upper Intermediate Arabic through Discussion 20 Lessons on Contemporary Topics with Integrated Skills and Fluency-build


Free Download Nevenka Korica Sullivan, "Upper Intermediate Arabic through Discussion: 20 Lessons on Contemporary Topics with Integrated Skills and Fluency-build"
English | ISBN: 1649032668 | 2023 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A dynamic and creative approach to teaching spoken Arabic in the classroom for the Upper Intermediate level by the author of Media Arabic

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Upper Intermediate Arabic through Discussion 20 Lessons on Contemporary Topics with Integrated Skills and Fluency-build


Free Download Nevenka Korica Sullivan, "Upper Intermediate Arabic through Discussion: 20 Lessons on Contemporary Topics with Integrated Skills and Fluency-build"
English | ISBN: 1649032668 | 2023 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A dynamic and creative approach to teaching spoken Arabic in the classroom for the Upper Intermediate level by the author of Media Arabic

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