A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic with MP3 Files (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) Review

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A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic with MP3 Files (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) ReviewThe Georgetown series on spoken Arabic varies widely in quality. The Iraqi Arabic course is excellent and so is the Syrian Arabic course, which is available online. By comparison, this book does not deliver much. When they say "Basic", they're not kidding: The vocabulary is very
limited, although useful and with drilling (1960's style repetition) one certainly gets it down. The Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic book is a good place to go to build on the seven hundred or so words this book offers, and there is also a Moroccan grammar in this same series that gives more grammatical details than the bare essentials offered in this volume. So for an introductory course this isn't a bad place to start.
So why only two stars? Because the audio is very poor, and in this day and age it is hard to see much excuse for that. What is actually on these MP3s is the tapes from nineteen sixty whatever, and seemingly without any attempt to enhance them (or eliminating extraneous sounds),
much less having the book re-recorded by a contemporary native speaker. When I ordered the audio from Georgetown (having already obtained the book) I actually spoke with a woman who told me that her husband was Moroccan. In other words, Georgetown wouldn't have had to look very far if they decided that a badly-needed do-over of their audio was in order.
This is 2009, guys. Get your act together.A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic with MP3 Files (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics) Overview"A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic" is a textbook in spoken Moroccan Arabic that is written for beginners who are unfamiliar with the Arabic language, alphabet, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Written in Latinate transcription it is carefully designed to present these elements in a progressive, user-friendly, step-by-step manner. Following the initial pronunciation introductions and practice, there are 130 lessons consisting of a text where a small number of phrases and sentences illustrate grammatical points. These sections also contain exercises in new grammar and vocabulary. Each lesson is structured in a way that guides the learner naturally and comfortably into an understanding of the structure of Moroccan Arabic. From there, the course progresses into ninety-seven short, conversational dialogs that place the student in a variety of social situations. First introduced to Arabic language students in the 1960s, "A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic" still has no equal for clarity and ease of use. An audio CD of MP3 files that further aid and enhance the lessons is now bound into this volume.

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