A Complete Guide To Arabic Pronunciation And Spelling Through English Sounds

If you are intending to start your journey of learning Modern Standard Arabic or still stuck in some stages without mastering both Arabic script and pronunciation, then this book is the key to unlock the doors towards the next stages. As English speaker, whether you are native or not, you will be amazed how English and Arabic overlap in a wide area in terms of sounds, and you will be impressed how regular the Arabic spelling is, which will make the process of learning pronunciation -at least at the level of recognition- very straightforward. Knowing that recognition is part of ultimate learning, this book will cover the common area of sounds between English and Arabic using the Arabic letters and International Phonetic Alphabet when no English equivalent is available. As for those sounds that are not in English, articulation strategies and techniques are clearly illustrated and precisely explained. At the End of this book, you will find both recognition and acquisition exercises, for you to practice what you have learned along the way. The goal of this book is to make you a Romanization-free Arabic learner, which will give the freedom to look up any Arabic text out there.