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Michel Thomas Method: Arabic Foundation Language Course CD
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Michel Thomas Method: Arabic Foundation Language Course CD
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Learn another language the way you learnt your own. You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Arabic in the same way. There's no books and no writing, and you will achieve confidence - in hours. With the "Michel Thomas Method" you learn the language in small steps, building it up yourself to produce ever more complicated sentences. The Method works as it breaks down the language into its component parts, enabling you to reconstruct the language yourself - to form your own sentences, to say what you want, when you want. On the recording you will hear two students being taught in real time and in a classroom situation, so you are learning with others. You enjoy their success and learn from their mistakes. You, as learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class. In a very short time you will be able to manipulate Arabic structures to express what you want to say.It uses the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. The Method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Arabic in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking - the way you learnt your own language. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. On these recordings experienced teacher Jane Wightwick is assisted by native Egyptian Arabic speaker Mahmoud Gaafar. These all-audio courses are accompanied by an index, where the Arabic words are printed in Roman script and translated, for easy reference. This "8-hour Arabic Foundation Course" is one of the "Michel Thomas Method Mandarin" courses published by Hodder Arnold, the others being the "5-hour Advanced Course", the "2-hour Foundation Review", the "1-hour Advanced Review" and the "2-hour Introductory Course", which comprises the first 2 hours of the "Foundation Course".

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Ineffective methodology and very basic Arabic  
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Learning languages through listening is one of the most effective ways in my opinion and thus I bought this audio course and other accompanying courses of these authors with great enthusiasm. I was though extremely disappointed.

The positives: It does familiarize you with the Arabic language and you will get to know a few vocabulary and understand the peculiarities of Arabic. If you are looking for a course to get a basic "taste" of the language it is a good start.

The negatives: If you are looking to learn Arabic seriously, there three main points on the negatives to mention.

1. You should know that you will learn the "Egyptian Dialect" of Arabic. While one could discuss which dialect is the best to learn, many universities and language schools nowadays teach "Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)" rather than a specific dialect. This is due to the fact that for example Gulf Arabic (e.g. Dubai) is different. If you learn MSA you will have a basis to understand all dialects and will be generally understood in different Arab countries including Egypt.

2. The course throughout all CDs has native English speaking "students" who attempt to pronounce the Arabic words. In the MAJORITY OF THE CASES they STRUGGLE. This leads to listening to WRONG PRONUNCIATION MANY MANY TIMES which is bad for the human brain that learns based on repetition. While my opinion is subjective, I believe this is an extremely ineffective method of learning a language. The English teacher "Jane" has also a sub-optional pronunciation. Only the Arabic teacher "Gafaar" on these CDs pronounces the words properly. Sadly, he is the one you hear the least during the course in my opinion.

A far better methodology is "Pimsleur Approach". You will found audios of Pimsleur on Amazon as well. They might be a bit more expensive but have a very good reason. I have not tried them for Arabic but seen that they exist. I have the pack for French was very impressed!

I believe that this course could be a lot better, just by using merely native speakers when repeating many, many times the Arabic words. The pace of the course is very slow. For someone who picks up foreign languages quickly, it gets even VERY ANNOYING that after the fifth of sixth track you might already be able to pronounce an Arabic word well while the "students" of the course you hear with their STRONG(!) English accent pronounce the words still in a quite bad way, struggle and even confuse forms (for example feminine and masculine forms or "you" with "I" which is really simple). They are then corrected by "Jane", the teacher. By then though you had to listen to many wrong pronunciations. I found this extremely annoying. It takes the fun out of using these CDs.

3. The overall level of these courses do not get you to a serious level of Arabic. As mentioned earlier and also by another reviewer here, it is basics you will learn. You might not be able to book even a hotel room (I agree with the other reviewer her) but will have a "taste" of the language.
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Despite several frustrating and unsuccessful attempts to learn languages at school, I was resigned to only ever speaking English. Having read the product description on this item stating that it used a unique method of teaching I decided to try it. After only one week of learning for just 20 minutes a day, I could already construct basic sentences. As the course went on it cleverly added words and ideas, so forming ever more complicated sentences came naturally. I cannot recommend this product highly enough, if I can learn Arabic using it anyone can!
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