Georgetown University Press Answer Key for Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning ArabicPart One, Third Edition

This is the only and first book I ever returned on Amazon. The book is too expensive to keep it; for the money I can buy a lot better books for learning Arabic, MSA and dialects.The grammar sections are really of low level, practically unusable, the sample sentences are not translated. The book uses Arabic grammar terms, which are total waste of time to learn vs the standard terms used in the excellent grammars. The book is reverse paged, which is meaningless for basically a textbook which has 50% English text. A vast majority of exercises are only for classroom use, even there their effectiveness is questionable. A huge portion of the book in this regard is totally useless. There are no transcripts for the videos, a shame for an expensive book like this. The idea to combine MSA, ECA and Levantine in the same book seemed ok at first, but eventually not a great idea at all in practice. Even my oldish J.R. Smart Teach Yourself Arabic book (no videos and audio unfortunately) has at least five times more real contents than this gigantic and heavy book with its separate booklet for keys.I am thinking of what I loved in this book. The quality of the print and the paper was outstanding.

Good to purchase if you are learning Arabic from the worst textbook in the world.

very clearly written book - this is an answer book to Al Kitaab 3rd edition

This book is particularly helpful for providing a written version of the vocabulary sentences that you hear spoken on the textbook website. As a learner, I sometimes have trouble understanding speech and like to see the spelling, to help recognize words or so I can better look up words in the textbook's glossary. When it's hard to find a word in the glossary (because Arabic words are not listed quite as alphabetically as English ones), you can type the words in on an online translator. These sentences are a good study aid.

Hehehehehe! This helped me so much. Not every drill is listed. But most are, mainly for the fill in the blank online options. Do not use this to just get your answers- but what i did, someone who was falling behind- used the answers, saving me time. And figured out why it was what it was. Don’t cheat yourselves.