Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing some material in colloquial and classical Arabic. It covers approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction. Students completing the course should achieve intermediate-mid level of proficiency. It contains Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries and verb charts.

"The content of the teaching material as well as its methodological approach makes Al-kitaab highly recommendable to anyone who wants to learn or to teach Arabic communicatively. . . . [it] represents nothing less than a new generation of textbooks."-Helle Lykke Nielsen, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

This Arabic language textbook program uses a communicative, proficiency-oriented approach with fully integrated audio-visual media to teach modern Arabic as a living language. The series focuses on developing skills in standard Arabic and gradually introducing students to Egyptian Arabic, the most widely spoken dialect in the Arabic-speaking world.

Alif Baa, Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds

Providing the first twenty contact hours of instruction, this workbook introduces 150 basic vocabulary words, including social greetings and politeness formulae, most of which are common to standard Arabic and one or more dialects.
224 pp. 1995 LC 95-6981
A set of 4 audiocassettes and a videotape are available to accompany Alif Baa.

Al-Kitaab fii Ta allum al-Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part One

Covering 150 contact hours of instruction, this textbook develops skills in standard Arabic while providing some material in colloquial and classical Arabic.
544 pp. 1995
A set of 10 audiocassettes and a videotape are available to accompany Part One.

Al-Kitaab fii Ta allum al-Arabiyya: A Textbook for Arabic: Part Two

Covers approximately 130 contact hours of instruction. Students completing Part Two should reach the threshold of an advanced level of proficiency. 448 pp. 1997 A set of 5 audiocassettes or 2 audio compact discs (containing the same material) are available to accompany Part Two.