Mastering Arabic Script: A Guide to Handwriting

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 023020936X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This textbook is an engaging, highly illustrated guide to learning handwriting as opposed to the printed form of the Arabic script. Well-formed and fluent handwriting is much admired throughout the Arab world. The book teaches Arabic handwriting in the form universally used by adult native speakers (riq'a) and compares it with naskh, the usual printed form. There are three parts to the book covering: the basic letter shapes, combinations of letters and an additional extended writing section. Clear examples, a wealth of practice material, insider tips from a leading expert, and lively activities and photos make the book easy to follow and enjoyable to work through. The book can be used to supplement the popular Mastering Arabic courses or independently from them. Aimed at beginners or early intermediate learners of Arabic, Mastering Arabic Script is ideal for both self-study use and classroom courses.

Easy Arabic Script

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Provides an easy-to-understand, practical guide to Arabic script. Explains the basic letter shapes, the combinations of letters, and different writing methods.--From publisher's description.

Mastering Arabic 2

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1352008513
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
This full colour text comes with free audio and video online through an accompanying website. It is a modern, engaging, intermediate Arabic course offering lively conversations, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights. The course is highly illustrated in full colour with photos and cartoons and includes an abundance of exercises to aid learning and encourage practice in listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is backed up by online exercises including a link to interactive flashcards, and is supported by a range of additional activity, grammar and handwriting books. The course follows on from the best-selling Mastering Arabic 1 but is suitable for any learner with some prior knowledge of Arabic. The Mastering Arabic series is widely used in universities, schools, community colleges, adult evening classes and for self-study.

Mastering Arabic 2: Units 1-6

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9780230220867
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A modern, engaging, intermediate course teaching Modern Standard Arabic. It offers lively dialogues, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights. The course follows on from the best-selling Mastering Arabic 1 but is suitable for any learner with some prior knowledge of Arabic. Contains 2 CDs and a 312-page book.

Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

Author: Volker Märgner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447140729
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

Mastering Arabic

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780781812382
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
This hugely successful beginner's course offers modern, engaging Modern Standard Arabic lessons through lively dialogues, varied exercises and fascinating cultural insights. This is the only user-friendly, accessible beginner level course on the market accompanied by audio CDs with native Arabic speakers. It suits an incredibly diverse learner base - self-study, through community college and school, to university primer/first year course. Students can continue their learning with a workbook "Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book" and the new second level course "Mastering Arabic 2 with 2 Audio CDs".

Writing Arabic

Author: Terence Frederick Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description

Beginner's Arabic Script

Author: John Mace
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN:
Category : Arabic alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
"An introduction to reading and writing Arabic"--Cover.

Mastering Arabic Script

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9781403941107
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
This text teaches Arabic handwriting in the form used by adult native speakers (riq'a) and compares it with naskh, the usual printed form. There are three sections covering basic letter shapes, combinations of letters, and an additional extended writing section.

The Ultimate Arabic Handwriting Guide

Author: Samar Amr
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
If you are here, that means you've made the right decision. Studying a foreign language must start with the alphabet. This book will guide you and teach you to write your first Arabic letter the easiest, and importantly THE RIGHT WAY. Arabic writing can be confusing when you are a complete beginner and don't know what form of the letter you have to write, that's why this book has come out to teach you the differences between the forms of the Arabic letters (Isolated, Initial, Medial or Final letters). Every letter of the alphabet is accompanied by small arrows to show you the writing path so you can follow, that way the writing will be so simple and understandable. What you will get: 28 Letters ʾalif to yāʾ Learn the whole alphabet. Big and clear examples that show you how to write letters by following arrows. Isolated, Initial, Medial, and Final form for every letter of the alphabet Enough room to write and practice. Large print pages: 8.5 x 11-inch sized pages, for easy viewing, and a great writing experience. Scroll up and click on the "Add to Cart" button and start your Arabic Learning Journey. *This book is designed for all ages but we don't recommend it for toddlers as it doesn't contain any eye-catchy colors or images