Al-Asas for Teaching Arabic for Non-Native Speakers of different nationalities uses modern and advanced educational techniques to provide students with a core understanding of the Arabic language and its proper usage. The series consists of three volumes that guide students from one level to the next in a gradual and logical fashion. The series is unique in that it approaches grammatical issues from a functional angle.

Volume I:
The Beginner Level starts with the alphabet and its phonetics and advances to 10 lessons that address everyday issues that help students gradually integrate into society. It has nine appendices and comes with an audio MP3 CD (8.5 hours).

Volume II:
The Advanced Beginner Level consists of 15 lessons that complement the previous volume. It is unique in that it contains several dialogue-themed exercises with a clear emphasis on four key skills: reading, conversation, listening, and writing. It has six appendices and comes with an audio MP3 CD (2.5 hours).

Volume III:
The Intermediate Level consists of 23 lessons that revolve around Arab culture, key historic cities, and past civilizations. It has six appendices and comes with an audio MP3 CD (3 hours).

About the author:
Fawzieh A. Bader is an author of several works and a long-time educator specializing in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching the language and culture at a variety of levels and to students from different backgrounds, varying academic levels, and a broad range of professions.

She served as an instructor at the University of Jordan (Languages Center) for 10 years. Her experience extends to teaching both colloquial and classical Arabic dialects, in addition to teaching grammar, reading, writing, conversational skills, Arabic language usage in specific areas (like politics, economics, and human rights), and instructing on methods for teaching Arabic as a foreign language.

She has also helped students prepare for international Arabic proficiency exams, such as the CASA exam. She holds a master’s Degree in the Arabic language, with additional backgrounds in education and psychology.

This is the new edition of a widely used textbooks covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United States, and Michael, an American student studying in Cairo.
In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture is experienced by an American student. This new edition expanded communicative activities; an updated audio program; and material designed according to proficiency principles
Features of the New Edition include:

• expanded communicative activities
• updated audio program
• material designed according to proficiency principles

This is a concise, step-by-step manual for learning to read the Qur'anic script. It is intended for self-study and for use by teachers. The script used in this book is based on the Uthmani script and the way in which the vowels and other signs are written make the art and science of reading the Qur'an clear and precise. Recommended to be used with the two workbooks, Easy Steps in Arabic Handwriting.

Teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:

1. Elements: sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
2. Skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
3. Linguistic Functions: introduction, greetings, description, requests, and apologies.

Series Contents:
The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.

Support Material:
Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio records, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students.

Student Textbook:
The Student Textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 66 basic lessons of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision. Each basic unit contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units contain conversations, pronunciations and expressions, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, ahadith and nasheed; where the teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.

Activity Book:
The activity book simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. Each contains many different activities which can be done at school or at home, such as coloring and painting pages; word matches; reading letters and sentences; writing words, letters, and numbers; and answering questions. Some of the activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

The curriculum will evantually contain grades from Elementary - High, currently you are in Middle and High School section; follow this link for your Elementary school students!

This Arabic language textbook program uses a communicative, proficiency-oriented approach with integrated CDs and DVDs designed to teach modern Arabic as a living language. For anyone interested in learning modern Arabic.
The series focuses on developing skills in standard Arabic and gradually introducing readers to Egyptian Arabic, the most widely spoken dialect in the Arabic-speaking world. This highly acclaimed series is developed by educators and linguists, with the specific needs of adult language learners in mind. Each level provides approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction. Parts of the series have been updated with contemporary selections for reading comprehension. Series begins at the most basic, introductory level, and moves all the way through advanced proficiency. Ideal for western students. Themes are heavily cultural, not necessarily Islamic.

Teach your high-school-aged child the beauty of the Arabic language through this series of interactive books equipped with MP3s. Your teenager will learn not only how to read and write, but also to learn new vocabulary through various activities, including comprehension, basics of geography, and much more. Gift your child with this excellent set of books and give him the gift of learning Arabic.

This course in Modern Standard Arabic concentrates on listening and speaking skills. There is a vocabulary glossary at the end of volume 3 (with meanings in English and French). A supplementary dictionary and translator assistant containing vocabulary for all three books in English, French, Spanish, and German.

Features:

• Ideal for classroom course
• Themed topics covering daily life in Arab world
• Full glossary of vocabulary