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Brand-new to the "501" Series comes "501 Arabic Verbs", printed in Arabic script with exemplary sentences in English for each verb. To reflect correct Arabic style, "501 Arabic Verbs" has been printed back cover to front and back page to front. 501 Verbs titles present the 501 most common verbs in their language. Verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English translation, and conjugated in all tenses and forms. Additional features in each book include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and grammar reviews.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm new to Arabic but have 2 years university Hebrew behind me many years back and a few other languages. This is a great value comprehensive guide to climbing the mountain of Arabic verbs. Whatever this author or many others say about Arabic verbs being easy - "all you have to do is learn the rules" (!) - they are plainly difficult. There are 10 verb forms with subtle and not so subtle changes of meaning, subjunctive and jussive voices and complex changes of conjugation depending on double root consonants and "weak" consonants (waw, yeh etc.) Scheindlin provides a thorough, fully vowelled and conjugated list of the verbs you are most likely to use. Each verb form and meaning comes with a relevant and contemporary example. Scheindlin also throws in a brief grammar and summary of the morphology of Arabic verbs and an index at the back (from an Arabic viewpoint). I had no problem navigating the book, and although it is clearly not intended to function as an English-Arabic dictionary it does a give an excellent view of the range of meanings conveyed by each verb in the various forms of the root. A fair amount of general understanding of grammar is required, however.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The good features of this book are: (1) The large number of verbs included, (2) The indexing of verbs both by whole word and by root order, (3) The introductory notes, (4) The inclusion of exemplary sentences, (5) The inclusion of the English meaning of each verb. The book would have been more user friendly were it to include an index of verbs by type and form and employ a format of one complete verb per page. Both of these features appear in '201 Arabic Verbs' by the same author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read the more negative reviews of this book here I felt sorry for those people - but I think they somewhat miscalculated how Arabic is best learnt. Learning Arabic for English speakers is a formidable task and really a good teacher is indispensable. To use Scheindlin's book you have to understand basic morphology (sarf). The 10 verb form patters have to be explained to you and learnt. Some courses here in the UK (e.g. Ibn Jabal) teach the first year of a good Western university Arabic degree course in 15 lessons. With that basic foundation you realise how useful this book is: You acquire 500 words; you know how to conjugate the difficult and non-intuitive verb forms; how to make the imperative, the subjunctive; you learn the active and passive participles etc; and you see the subtle differences in meaning between the different verb forms etc
People struggling with the index clearly don't understand the root system and the 10 forms - and without those you're handicapped; you can't even use a good dictionary like Hans-Wehr without that basic knowledge. My best wishes to all those trying to learn Arabic but whilst you're getting on your feet you need a good teacher. Scheindlin's book is very good once you're intermediate. The best beginners Arabic (grammar) books out there for English speakers in my humble opinion are: Faruk Abu-Chacra (2007); and Mohammad T. Alhawary (2011)...very systematic, good contemporary style (as opposed to the older books like Haywood etc) and the Arabic font is clear. Most of all persist, it's amazing when you can pick up Arabic only books and read them like any other. It's a very velvety and descriptive language, full of metaphor.
People struggling with the index clearly don't understand the root system and the 10 forms - and without those you're handicapped; you can't even use a good dictionary like Hans-Wehr without that basic knowledge. My best wishes to all those trying to learn Arabic but whilst you're getting on your feet you need a good teacher. Scheindlin's book is very good once you're intermediate. The best beginners Arabic (grammar) books out there for English speakers in my humble opinion are: Faruk Abu-Chacra (2007); and Mohammad T. Alhawary (2011)...very systematic, good contemporary style (as opposed to the older books like Haywood etc) and the Arabic font is clear. Most of all persist, it's amazing when you can pick up Arabic only books and read them like any other. It's a very velvety and descriptive language, full of metaphor.
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Good apart from the rogue hamzas!!
Something which really annoys me in Arabic is the incorrect use of hamza. This is a hugely common mistake, even among native Arab speakers in books, newspapers and magazines. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Blonde Arabist
useful but difficult to use...
This book is very useful which is normal when you start to learn a language. Unfotunately when you open the book you don't see the same tables like in Europe (I mean: I am, You... Read more
Published 18 months ago by marta
501 Arabic verbs.
The most serious omission in this book is that the index is only in Arabic, and hence, the student can only look up verbs if he/she already knows the verb required. Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by D. J. Brown
Not User Friendly
I have had a copy of this book for over a year and hardly use it. It is definitley not user friendly for students of Arabic up to Intermediate level. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by Careful Purchaser
Useful reference if you can navigate it
I am just beyond beginner level in Arabic and bought this book to help with my understanding of the conjugation of verbs. However, this is a horrible book to navigate. Read more
Published on 4 April 2008 by MS-R
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