Teach Yourself Arabic at Home With One 40-Page Book
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Learning alone needs a different kind of book
A classroom textbook assumes a teacher to explain it. Left alone with one, most people stall at the first thing that does not make sense and never restart.
Learn Arabic For Your Habibi was written to be used by someone with nobody to ask.
Self-contained, by design
- Nothing needs explaining. The pronunciation guide at the front tells you how to read every line, and every line is in clear transliteration.
- Nothing can be got wrong quietly. Replies are printed with their phrases, and every line is marked (m) or (f), so the two things a solo learner usually gets wrong are handled on the page.
- No exercises to mark. There is no homework, no answer key, and nothing to check. You read a section and then you use it.
What to do with it on your own
Take one of the nineteen sections. Read it aloud twice. Then use one phrase from it that day with an actual person — a colleague, a shopkeeper, your partner. That is the entire method, and it works because the book supplies both what you say and what comes back.
Sections run from greetings and introductions through numbers, family, food, restaurants, work, travel, the household, shopping, colours and directions.
What it is
A 40-page A4 paperback teaching everyday spoken Levantine Arabic — the language of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine, and of Dubai's Arab community. Written by Daria Okhrimenko for complete beginners with no previous Arabic. AED 169, free delivery anywhere in the UAE in two to four days.
No tutor required, and no course to fall behind in.