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Spoken Lebanese
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Spoken Lebanese |
Author: Maksoud N. Feghali
Published: 1999-06 |
List price: $34.95
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 Spoken Lebanese
The author does a good job on basics of the language. A glaring omission is the absence of a cross-reference from English to Lebanese and the reverse. This should have been included with a vocabulary size of 10,000 words.
 Spoken Lebanese, a good textbook.
A very good explanation of spoken Lebanese. However, as I was raised in a Lebanese family and my parents spoke the language, (they didn't teach me) I find this book more of a textbook than a self study. It would be very helpful to have someone that speaks Lebanese to help with grammar and pronunciation. I will continue to study with it but, without a native speaker as a coach, it is slow going.
Nice, practical and handy
I am using this book in conjuntion with other books on Levantine Arabic.I wouldnt use this course as my primary source of Lebanese language study.This book is GREAT for verbs:Types of verbs, verb conjugations and pronunciation....this book as it all.In fact there is a list at the back that summarises all the verbs that are covered in the various chapters.The social expressions and pretty extensive vocabulary provided towards the end are really useful.This book will be pretty handy if you plan to mingle with a Lebanese family crowd.The book was intended for use in precisely such a situation and doesnt purpot to be anything more.The reason Im giving it 4 stars is because of the beautiful way in which verbs are presented and summarised.I havent seen this in any other book.
 Spoken Lebanese
Dr. Feghali's book is definitely not for one who knows nothing about the language. The lessons are poorly structured--they include dialogue in Lebanese with no translation and words that had not been taught in any previous lessons. I found the book difficult and frustrating. I know some Lebanese and I could not handle the book. I am also a teacher and I would never recommend this book as a teaching instrument.
This is an excellent book in that it is faithful to Lebanese
This is an excellent book in that it is faithful to Lebanese phonology and syntax. It does not try to Arabize the Lebanese "dialect" in order to make it more acceptable to learners of "Arabic." However, I thought that an introduction to, and a use of LEBANESE script would have been more effective than using the various symbols the author has concocted.
The Lebanese language already has a script, which was developped in the 1950s by the Lebanese linguist and philosopher Said Akl. I think Dr. Feghali should have used it to facilitate the learners' aquisition of this beautiful and wonderfully athletic language (which, by the way, should NOT be referred to as an "Arabic dialect".
I don't know of any Frenchmen arguing that they speak a Latin dialect. Why should then the Lebanese, and the author of all people, denigrate their language and call it "Arabic".
I highly recommend this book, but I only wish it was written in Lebanese
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