Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf : the complete course for beginners / Clive Holes.
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TextLanguage: English, Arabic Original language: Arabic Series: Colloquial seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Edition: New edDescription: xxvi, 435 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780415430395 (pbk.); 9780415432283 (pack: pbk. & CD); 9780415432290 (audio CDs); 0415430399 (pbk.); 0415432286 (pack: pbk. & CD); 0415432294 (audio CDs)Subject(s): Arabic language -- Dialects -- Persian Gulf Region -- Grammar | Arabic language -- Dialects -- Arabian Peninsula -- Grammar | Arabic language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- EnglishLOC classification: PJ6853 | .H64 2010Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Mysore University Main Library | Not for loan | EBTF3126 |
Pack contains the pbk. & 70 minutes of audio material recorded on CD.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- 2.1. The Arabic equivalent of "the" -- 2.2. The "dual" -- 2.3. The plural ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : history (1) : the Portuguese ; Reading Arabic -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 6.1. Expressions of place -- 6.2. The verb : past tense ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : history (2) : the British ; Reading Arabic -- 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 -- 8.1. Noun phrases -- 8.2. The elative adjective -- 8.3. Word order ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : building traditions ; Reading Arabic -- 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 --
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 13.1. The active participle -- 13.2. The passive participle ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : in the market ; Reading Arabic -- 14.1. The derived themes of the verb (1) ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point: football ; Reading Arabic -- 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 -- 16.1. The derived themes of the verb (2) -- 16.2. Conditional sentences ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : tribes ; Reading Arabic -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Texts ; Vocabulary ; Cultural point : colloquial poetry ; Reading Arabic.
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