Formal Spoken Arabic Basic Course with MP3 Files: Second Edition (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Languages and Linguistics series)

I would recommend this book to readers who have completed at least Mastering Arabic 1, and the Pimsleur and Michel Thomas Arabic courses, or similar beginners courses. The book contains Arabic script and no answer key. However there are lots of exercises to get you speaking Arabic, and it increases with difficulty at a smooth rate so you do not 'get stuck'.The included MP3 files work well and compliment the course.This is for students who do not want to specialise with a particular dialect yet e.g. Gulf, Egyptian or Moroccan, but want to be able to converse in Arabic.This book gives you a good basic foundation, to make yourself understood across a wider range of topics, when speaking to native Arabic speakers, than the Pimsleur and Michel Thomas Courses, and also more flexibility in your sentence structure.I spent a year internalising this course and used it to good effect travelling through Tunisia. I have also used Formal Spoken Arabic (FSA) when talking to Egyptians and Jordanians and I am understood.FSA uses a simpler grammar system than Standard Arabic, and will get you talking.