Now with audio and video free-to-access online! This lively, accessible and carefully-paced text is easily the bestselling Arabic course on the market. Mastering Arabic 1 is in full colour, with a rich array of cartoons and photos. It has an abundance of exercises to learn and practise listening, speaking, reading and writing, introducing the Arabic script from the very first page.
The course is aimed at beginners with little or no previous knowledge of the language who want to understand, speak and read Arabic confidently. It is widely used in universities, schools, community colleges, adult evening classes and for self-study.

Preface
Introduction
LANGUAGE UNITS
Getting Started
Putting Words Together
The Family
Jobs
Describing Things
Where Is It?
Describing Places
Review
Countries and People
Counting Things
Plurals and Colours
Eating and Drinking
What Happened Yesterday?
Wish You Were Here
Review
Every Day
Comparing Things
Education and Business
Future Plans
Review and Further Study
REFERENCE MATERIAL
The Arabic Alphabet
The Arabic Verb
Broken Plurals
Months of the Year
Answers to Exercises
English-Arabic Glossary
Index.

Authors Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar share many years' experience in a combination of teaching, educational publishing and communication in the Arab world.