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Moroccan Arabic: Shnoo the Hell is Going On H'naa? A Practical Guide to Learning Moroccan Darija - the Arabic Dialect of Morocco (2nd edition) (Educational Resources) PDF, ePub eBook Kindle

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Author : Aaron Sakulich,George F Roberson,Rajae Khaloufi
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For everyone going to Morocco, any age + skill level: language students to casual visitors and everyone in between. Clear and easy pronunciation system, on-the-street utility and low price. All book sales go to support Moroccan-USA NGO for more community and education-based materials, activities and exchange. Produced by an all-volunteer bi-national team of experts - your chance to move beyond tourist phrasebooks and corporate textbooks.

Best of all, and unlike the others, everything is provided side-by-side in English, transliteration, and Arabic. And it uses a simple real-word transliteration system that is simply written the way things sound without the use of exotic linguistic symbols.

Finally a straight-forward and easy to use primer for learning Moroccan Arabic, now improved in this 2nd edition. It incorporates reader suggestions and features more details on the transliteration system, additional words, new word lists, and the text has been completely revised and re-edited.

Practical and witty, it's basically the equivalent of a VCR repair manual, just a bare-bones list of how to do the important things: here's the present tense, here's the future tense, etc, etc. In other words, it's a reference book with simple examples, none of the filler, and a few youthful surprises. It's just the kind of cheat-sheet everyone craves.

Useful to everyone with an interest in contemporary Morocco: travelers, tourists, backpackers, students, diplomats, business people, academics, artists, Peace Corp volunteers, Fulbright Scholars and student grantees, etc.

Moroccan Arabic was written by a dogged student of the language (and a natural teacher) and it was edited by a native speaker and equally wonderful teacher.

Praise for Moroccan Arabic from students, scholars and travelers on both side of the Atlantic:

"Fills a gaping hole in Moroccan Arabic instruction. Based on the first-hand immersion experiences of a native English-speaker who navigated Moroccan culture and language for a year... and as a researcher in Morocco myself, I found it handy." --Nabil Khan, Fulbright Student Grantee

"I love the sense of humor woven throughout - it's an enjoyable read. A great example of collaboration." --Edwin Bodensiek, Dir. of Outreach and Public Relation, CIES - Fulbright, Washington, DC

"A great resource. I wish had this book when I was traveling and researching in Morocco." --Dr Jennifer A Roberson, Professor of Islamic Art, Sonoma State University, California

"Written by a born teacher. This book enhances effective language instruction and builds a collection of everyday conversation resources for Anglo-American students and scholars." --Dr Khalid Amine, Université Abdelmalek Essaadi and President, ICPS - Tangier

Many people contributed to making this book a reality - and by agreement of all those involved, the proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the publishing program at the International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) - Tangier, Morocco.

Initial research for the book was conducted during a Fulbright graduate student grant. The ongoing project (encourage more people to learn Darija, provide improved study materials, and provide a funding stream for more Morocco-themed books) is sustained by the generosity of numerous all-volunteer partners - kindly lend your assistance by sending an email to collaborative.media@ymail.com

Book ID Asin: 0982440936
Book Title: Moroccan Arabic: Shnoo the Hell is Going On H'naa? A Practical Guide to Learning Moroccan Darija - the Arabic Dialect of Morocco (2nd edition) (Educational Resources)
Book Author: Aaron Sakulich,George F Roberson,Rajae Khaloufi
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Book Format Name: Paperback
Book Format Price: $22.00
Book Price: $22.00
Book Category: Books, Travel, Africa and unknown
Book Rating: 96 ratings

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Book Review

Name: Kayla Haneckow
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice but not in depth
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2021
Review: The book has potential but it doesn’t give many examples or exercises to practice what was covered. It is not a textbook but I hope the author revised it and makes it better in the sense that people will learn vocabulary and verbs to go along with the grammar

Name: Gary Patella
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: the author goes into a whole spiel about how the other books will show things like an upside down "e" in the pronunciation guide
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2016
Review: This book can help to learn the basics. However, there are just some problems when it comes to the pronunciation. In the intro, the author goes into a whole spiel about how the other books will show things like an upside down "e" in the pronunciation guide and says that he didn't do that because he doesn't know how such a thing would sound. Great! Except then he uses the number "3" in the middle of the letters A LOT for pronunciation. For example, you might see the pronunciation as a3ka (not a real word in the book, but I don't have the book in front of me right now to give an actual example). I think it's really stupid to complain about upside down letters or umlauts or what have you from other authors and then constantly insert the number 3! He doesn't know how and upside down "e" sounds? Fair enough. But I don't know how a "3" sounds when used as a letter! I would have an easier time figuring out the pronunciations from the formats that he denounces in the intro.

I know this sounds extremely negative, and yet I'm giving it 3 stars rather than 1. But the use of 3 as a letter was my main and probably only gripe. The other words that use only letters for pronunciation help, and you can still learn enough from this book.

Name: Yasemin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: T3llmt miziyen mn had kitab!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2020
Review: Used this book during my volunteer service in Morocco and it helped a lot! Great for building vocabulary and explaining key grammatical concepts. Also, fun and entertaining author anecdotes.

Name: Fabian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book! Highly recommended!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
Review: I first got this book bcoz I got a grant to study derija in Morocco. I
like that the book was written by a Fulbright language-study grantee -
he knows the little nuggets that help most. It clearly explains in
detail all the most important stuff: all the different types of nouns,
adjectives and verbs, plus it covers the Nisba, question words, money,
telling time, conjunctions, prepositions and also has tons of useful
words and phrases organized by subject. And since it's lightweight,
easy to use and cheap, I decided to get a second copy for friends and
family to use when they visit.

Name: anthony
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This one encludes Arabic script with phonetic spelling above.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019
Review: This text is well-thought-out. One can easily find a grammar topic in the contents. Each entry is short, a page or two, but has vocabulary, sample sentences and explanations. It's a great text. Thanks! Enjoy.

Name: GingerStylz
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My hubby actually got what I was saying
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2013
Review: I have tried to get many Arabic books in the past. This is the first that I have found for Moroccan and is true to phrasing just wish it went into more detail instead of phrases such as numbers months days that sort of thing.

Name: Sunny Hill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: an excellent review for students of Moroccan Arabic
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013
Review: This is not for the casual tourist. It is an excellent review for any student of Moroccan Arabic who already has some proficiency but needs to have a thorough brush-up on grammar and other language aspects before another trip to Morocco. It is written with great clarity and some humor by a thoughtful observer of the language. I will keep it as a very valuable reference.

Name: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It's ok.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2017
Review: For the money I spent on this, it could have been a little better. The Arabic words are very small. You need a magnifying glass to read them. At least the price of it went to a good cause.

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