Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf: The Complete Course for Beginners [Book]

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Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to use this book
Pronunciation guide
Unit 1
	1.1 Expressions of quantity
	1.2 Orders and requests
	1.3 'Please', 'Thank you', 'Be so kind'
	Vocabulary
	Cultural point: The Gulf States and the GCC
	Reading Arabic
Unit 2
	2.1 The Arabic equivalent of 'the'
	2.2 The 'dual'
	2.3 The plural
	Vocabulary
	Cultural point: History (1): the Portuguese
	Reading Arabic
Unit 3
	3.1 'How much/How many?'
	3.2 Prices
	3.3 Numbers 1 to 10
	3.4 Greetings
	Vocabulary
	Cultural point: Food and cooking
	Reading Arabic
Unit 4
	4.1 Simple descriptive sentences
	4.2 Noun-adjective phrases
	4.3 Some other types of adjective
	Vocabulary
	Cultural point: Standard Arabic and Gulf Arabic
	Reading Arabic
Unit 5
	5.1 Numbers 11 to 1,000,000
	5.2 Age
	5.3 Telling the time
	5.4 Personal pronouns
	5.5 'Who?' and 'What?'
	Vocabulary
	Cultural point: Currencies, banknotes and stamps
	Reading Arabic
Review Unit I
	Unit 6
		6.1 Expressions of place
		6.2 The verb: past tense
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: History (2): the British
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 7
		7.1 Past-tense verbs: verbs beginning with a glottal stop
		7.2 Past-tense verbs: 'hollow' verbs
		7.3 'To say that …'
		7.4 'To ask whether …'
		7.5 li'ann 'because'
		7.6 Expressions of manner
		7.7 Further expressions of time
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: The Islamic year
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 8
		8.1 Noun phrases
		8.2 The elative adjective
		8.3 Word order
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Building traditions
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 9
		9.1 Past-tense verbs: 'doubled' verbs
		9.2 Past-tense verbs: 'weak' verbs
		9.3 Time conjunctions
		9.4 Ordinal numbers
		9.5 Months
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Traditional dress: men
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 10
		10.1 Relative clauses
		10.2 Demonstrative pronouns
		10.3 Demonstrative adjectives
		10.4 The negative in equational sentences
		10.5 'Somebody' and 'nobody'
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Traditional dress: women
		Reading Arabic
Review Unit II
	Unit 11
		11.1 The imperfect verb: basic forms
		11.2 The imperfect verb: different stem types
		11.3 Review of verb forms
		11.4 The uses of the imperfect
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Marriage: traditional and modern
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 12
		12.1 Verb strings
		12.2 The imperative: strong verbs
		12.3 The imperative: other types of verb
		12.4 The negative imperative
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Driving
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 13
		13.1 The active participle
		13.2 The passive participle
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: In the market
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 14
		14.1 The derived themes of the verb (1)
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Football
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 15
		15.1 The verbal noun
		15.2 Coordinated negatives
		15.3 Compound adjectives
		15.4 'Self'
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: History (3): the Indians
		Reading Arabic
Review Unit III
	Unit 16
		16.1 The derived themes of the verb (2)
		16.2 Conditional sentences
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Tribes
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 17
		17.1 Quadriliteral verbs
		17.2 'To wish/want' and 'to prefer'
		17.3 Verbs with double objects
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Religion, sect and ethnicity
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 18
		18.1 Diminutives
		18.2 Uses of ábu and umm
		18.3 'How big!', etc.
		18.4 'So-and-so'
		18.5 Forms of personal address
		18.6 Exhortations
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Pearls
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 19
		19.1 Verb strings involving kaan/yikúun
		19.2 More conjunctions
		19.3 'As if'
		19.4 Expressions meaning 'I think'
		19.5 'Some' and 'each other'
		19.6 Adverbs in -an
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Arabiizi
		Reading Arabic
	Unit 20
		Texts
		Vocabulary
		Cultural point: Colloquial poetry
		Reading Arabic
Answer key
Appendix 1: Variations in pronunciation
Appendix 2: The Arabic script
Gulf Arabic–English glossary
English–Gulf Arabic glossary