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

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".

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.

Writing Arabic

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

Book Description

Mastering Arabic Vocabulary and Pronunciation

Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1352002264
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This highly illustrated textbook is both a reference and activity book for all beginners and early intermediate students of Arabic. As a reference book, it provides friendly theme-based vocabulary lists to perfect pronunciation through both listening and repetition. As an activity book, it helps absorb and practise vocabulary through a variety of engaging exercises. Each of the units in the book is divided into two sections with the first section suitable for early beginners, and the second section for late beginners or early intermediate students. Each section presents key vocabulary followed by a wide range of activities. This book assumes a reasonable knowledge of the Arabic script and basic grammar, and is intended for beginners and early intermediate students to back up learning elsewhere. Vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation are both important but sometimes tricky aspects of learning Arabic, and this book aims to help overcome this.

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.

Read and Write Arabic Script: A Teach Yourself Guide

Author: Mourad Diouri
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 007177453X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C! Read and Write Arabic Script will help you read and write simple Arabic. This book is a step-by-step introduction to the script that will enable you to read Arabic signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. Even if you think learning the script is a daunting prospect, this book will make it simple. The alphabet is introduced in stages and there's lots of practice of each new character before the next one is introduced. There are plenty of example words and phrases that are seen everywhere in any Arabic-speaking environment so you can familiarize yourself with the most common signs and directions. By the end of the book, you will be reading and writing simple Arabic with confidence and be prepared for your next trip to the Middle East or further study of the language. Features: One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started Author insights for lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience Useful vocabulary, easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking Extra online articles at teachyourself.com to give a richer understanding of the Arabic-speaking culture