Kallimni ‘Arabi Aktar: An Upper Intermediate Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 3 (Arabic Edition)

Background - I should have amassed far more Arabic books but alas, I only have about 20 Arabic books. So my opinion may not represent other intermediate learners who have far more materials and books to compare this one to. I was so happy when I received this because I LOVED Kallimni Arabi #2, which took me 3-4 weeks to complete. 'The book states in the intro: "You should have already studied the first book in the Kallimni Arabi series or completed intermediate state of MSA." Definitely follow this recommendation since I did not study the first book nor did I finish my Intermediate MSA course.Review-This book is very fun and easy to complete. It has seven modules. According to the book's introduction, "Each module will take about 8-9 hours of teaching and studying. Teachers are free to use the exercises under the Real Life sections."Because I am strictly self studying from this book, it takes me roughly 20 hours, not 9, per module. That is not including time to ask my husband to correct my exercises and pronunciation inside the book. I also listen to the accompanied cd and record myself speaking EVERY SINGLE dialogue. Each module has 3-4 dialogues. I play back my recorded dialogues to my native Egyptian friends and I also speak the dialogues out loud to my husband who graciously pick out a few words every dialogue I don't pronounce correctly. Also, whenever I have confusion about a phrase or exercise, I ask a fantastic Egyptian teacher (the best teacher ever!) who teaches this book on Italki.com. Using an efficient teacher is necessary for your success in this book. I tried a few other teachers with this book and it was a no go. So if you were unsuccessful with the previous book, change the teacher!I started this book on 1/3/2016 and I am on the third module. I am finding that this book is a bit harder and takes longer for me to complete than Kallimni Arabi #2. The first half of Kallimni Arabi #2 was more of a review for me and I didn't struggle with any of the modules. This book I am finding that it is getting challenging right from the second module. It is crucial you do NOT self study with this book because every module has at least 3 role play exercises where you must speak with at least one, if not two or three, native speakers. Sure, you can complete the exercises with fellow learners, but you will improve much faster if you practice the role play with two native speakers.With Kamil Gamil, I fell asleep every chapter listening to the monotonous voice actors. Compared to Kamil Gamil, this book is FAR more interesting. My favorite part of the book is the dialogues. Plus, the voice actors and the background sound make the dialogues really, really fun to learn. The voice actors speak slower than the ones in Kamil Gamil and the actors are far more animated and it is really easy to follow their speech. In Kamila Gamil, I couldn't catch any of the dialogue because they were speaking so fast. In Kallimni Aktar, any difficult or new words are popped in the back glossary. And if you have this book, it is very likely you already know half the words in the back! There is no English except in the back. It is a bit unorganized, but you can manage which new words belong to which module.The only things I would change in this book is to rearrange the appendix in the back and provide more exercises. You can tell by my picture of the "Module Vocabulary" that the "Presentations" and "Real Life" vocabulary from different modules are on the same page and hence, confusing.I look forward to studying this book everyday and I hope it helps you in your Egyptian language journey.Edited to Add- I finally finished this book as of 14/2/2016. Strictly self studying, it took me almost 7 weeks or 1.5 months. I made sure I didn't move on to the next chapter until I understand 100% of the chapter including pronunciation. Unfortunately, there are some words, around 30 in all, from the glossary that still do not stick in my head. I feel like I am not ready to go onto the next book which is Low Advanced.When I was about to finish the book last week, a native speaker (who listens and corrects me speaking the dialogues 3x week) was really surprised and shocked how much my pronunciation improved with this book. I am really excited but yet nervous to move onto the next book.

an excellent textbook teaching simple dialogues for every day situations. The included cd's are a treasure. I listen to them doing housework, in the gym, etc. and little by little my level of comprehension goes up. It's a very difficult language, but this book really helps

Nice book set, this one unfortunately had no CD

It is second time this book was sent to our student without CD, ... in description of Kallimni ‘Arabi Aktar: An Upper Intermediate Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 3 (Arabic Edition) a CD is included with the book..." The accompanying audio CD has recordings of each chapter’s dialogues and exercises, made by native Egyptian speakers to enrich the student’s exposure to the spoken language in its natural context and speed."Could you please send another book at the same address, with return label and make sure the CD is included. Thank you.

Great for conversations and vocabulary builder.

This course is definitely not self-study format. It states in the introductory pages that this course is for use in a classroom. Very dissapointed with the purchase.

Excellent and well presented for learning Arabic as a foreign language!A very systematic book for Arabic learners from starters to advanced and i am quite happy to have bought it.My final review will be after I studied it in depth, in a years time

For anybody chasing the spectre of 'real' Arabic, some words that don't sound completely contrived in Arabic, the pedantic and rigid MSA with such lumbering phrases like "a laysa ki-dhalik?", this is the book for you! It is not transliterated, which is great because you can see how amiya is just MSA words transformed, rather than rote leaning new words. It's like learning a more easily pronounceable, natural, and totally usable version of the Arabic you've come to love (and hate). It is a 'real' enough to be able to watch Egyptian satellite TV, and I'm saying that from experience. good luck!

Era como lo esperaba salvo que no viene el CD sino un código QR para oír los audios en linea. La encuadernación parece un poco endeble y tal vez cuando tenga un poco más de uso se suelten las hojas.Le falta un apartado con los ejercicios corregidos.

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