Excerpt from Arabic Self-Taught (Syrian): With English Phonetic Pronunciation The present enlarged edition of Arabic say-taught is to all intents and purposes a new work. It has practically been re-written throughout and much entirely new matter has been added, whilst those portions of the original English text that have been retained have undergone thorough revision with a view to adapting them to modern requirements. The Vocabularies and Conversations have been carefully selected for practical use in the daily life of tourists, travellers, missionaries, business men, and all who come into contact with the natives of Syria. The work forms an easy guide to spoken (colloquial) Arabic, and gives the student a practical and valuable introduction to the thorough study of the language. The system of transliteration here employed, carefully devised to give the phonetic pronunciation of Arabic in accordance with the scheme adopted by the Congress of Orientalists, has been simplified to the last degree, and the key to the vowel sounds, diphthongs, and hard consonants, given at the foot of the pages throughout the Vocabularies and Conversations, will greatly facilitate the intelligible pronunciation of the Arabic words at sight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Arabic Self Taught

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