Arabic Short Stories for Beginners: 30 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Arabic & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

De: My Daily Arabic

Narrado por: Muaz Salah, Emma Lanners

Duración: 6 h y 1 m

Resumen del Editor

Thirty Arabic short stories for complete beginners.

One of the smartest ways to improve fluency is to read stories in your chosen language. Finding appropriate literature can be tough when you’re just starting out, but this collection of 30 short stories is a fun and entertaining way of learning Arabic vocabulary and grammar. Each story is around 300 words, making them very quick reads without overwhelming you. Crafted for beginners, this is ideal for newcomers who are trying to approach fluency in a natural way.

Rapidly Learn New Vocabulary

Classes often emphasize the most proper way of speaking and writing a language, but that’s rarely found with native speakers. These stories will help you learn how Arabic is commonly written and conveyed with natural dialogues and expressions. Following each story is a list of interesting words used in the story along with an English translation. No more reaching for an Arabic-to-English dictionary when encountering uncommon words.

Grasp the Grammar

Each story has a mixture of simple dialogue, descriptive sentences and everything in-between. This allows you to pick up how sentences are commonly written along with how to describe scenery, items and people, giving you an overall and detailed way of understanding the written language.

Reading and Listening Skills

Each story is only 300 words, giving you an engaging yet simple story that you can quickly read through. We also supply you with a free audio file so that you can follow along and understand how each word is said and how the sentences should be read. This is narrated by a native Arabic speaker, ensuring every inflection is correct.

With this book you’ll get:

• Thirty short stories - each story just 300 words long, 110 pages.
• Sixty minutes of audio from a native Arabic speaker.
• Their English translation after each paragraph.

If you want to improve your reading fluency as quickly and naturally as possible, then this book is ideal. Not only that, but each story is interesting, and you can read them in a matter of minutes.

Please note: This audiobook is in Arabic.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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For Beginners!? HA!

About me; I live in Baghdad every other month. I have taken fusha and ammiya classes for almost 6 years. I have daily private hour-long conversation-practice with an instructor in egypt. I have twice a week private instruction with a fusha instructor who is the director of the arabic language problem at a university you've heard of. I am far from fluent. But few normal people in iraq speak english so i read and speak it all day every day in baghdad. I have no problem getting around baghdad, having meaningful conversations about my life and the lives of people i meet, discussing the goings-on of every day life, telling taxis where im going, etc. My vocabulary isnt that great, but its sufficient for everyday life.

About this audiobook;

the good; this book is read in very clearly pronounced, and well paced, fusha with case endings. Props to the reader for doing an excellent job not speaking too quickly or too slowly, and articulating his words in excellent fusha style. I cant detect any of the typical distortions id expect from dialects I'm familiar with. All the characters are pronounced as you'd expect. A+

The bad; absolutely no one speaks this way. No one adds case endings like this anywhere in real life. You will never hear someone talk to you like this - even ignoring the fusha vocabulary and the pronunciation differences between regions - your ear really has to be in a different mode to listen to this. Also, the vocabulary in here is far from beginner level. I feel calling this stories for beginners is really setting people up to feel bad about themselves and their progress. I have to listen to two or three stories before by brain can switch back into this mode. There are many words in practically each chunk of speech that i dont know.

If you just signed up for your first Arabic class, or you're a year in, and you get this book - ha - good luck - if you can understand a lot of it - wow! - props to you - I've never met someone with your language abilities. But if you're a normal person like me; no - its not you - these stories are not for beginners. Prepare to encounter words you'll probably never use, like "bunk bed", "gusting", "spring" (as in "spring in your step"), etc.

Very useful. By no means a beginner's book

First of all occasionally the pdf contains some typos. No big issues.
The performance is solid. Good voice. A tad too fast for most beginners.
Though most stories/sentences are simple enough, at times the grammatical complexity and the range of vocabulary can be somewhat daunting. I have a B1/ B2 level-ish arabic and still find it challenging at times. The language is very, very formal even as Al-Fusha goes. If you manage to digest the whole book and are able to make your own sentences/ speeches accurately on a similar scale, your Arabic would be considered more than solid.

For the English language learners

In the bilingual section, the Arabic texts come first, then the English. Doesn't work for the Arabic language at all. The target audience is for the English language learners.

The intermittent translation was a terrible idea

I'm a non-native speaker of Arabic. I would say I'm somewhere between intermediate to advanced, and have little trouble following extended discourse. For me, the intermittent translation was an unnecessary distraction that interupts getting into the groove of thinking and following along exclusively in Arabic. Part of improving one's language proficiency is getting over the discomfort of not knowing everything that you are hearing in order to listen closer to find what you can understand. The format of this audiobook completely hinders one's ability to get into the groove. Additionally, i found the british woman's voice obnoxious, and she actually made what would have been an interesting story rather boring because there's no excitement in discovering that you understood something when it is interrupted by her very dull sounding voice.

its okay

it would make more sense to hear english first. it would make more sense to hear english first.