Re: Arabic word derivation (morphological regularities?)

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:18:22 GMT

> : (I just ordered Haywood.)
>
> : I had seen it but resisted due to reviews about
> : Arabic script in it looking like "xerox of a xerox"
> : or being a "bit dated" but I trust your recommendations
> : on Arabic materials.
>
> it is a thorough grammar. the language may not be the latest racy
> journalistic style but it prepares well for both modern standard and
> classical arabic.
>
>
> : There really doesn't seem to be a "Short Reference
> : Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic."
>
> try D. Cowan "Modern Literary Arabic". concise but good. (D. Cowan is no
> the same guy who wrote the dictionary

Ok, is that going to be useful to me (I am not really after
'Literatary' Arabic and wondered if that was 'Classical')?

I am trying to learn to speak Standard Arabic (also Iraqi
dialect) well enough to engage in daily life and to understand
Al Jazeera (news and documentaries).

Eight months so far, and I am surprised how much harder it is that
I thought at first, but progress is steady.

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