Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.
Simplified Grammar of Arabic, Persian and Hindustani by E. H. Palmer This concise and practical book will enable students to analyze sentences in all 3 languages. Alphabets, numerals, verb parts, and tenses are given for each, along with English equivalents, pronunciations, and explanations for compound words.
An Introduction to Modern Arabic by Farhat J. Ziadeh, R. Bayly Winder This guide's focus is modern literary Arabic, particularly the style employed by newspapers. The vocabulary terms are the most common in spoken and written Arabic, and a vocabulary list appears in the appendix.
Arabic Grammar by W. Wright, W. Robertson Smith, M. J. de Goeje The sine qua non resource for English-speaking students wishing to master the intricacies of Arabic. Although it is purely a reference grammar, it cites many examples of sentences, phrases, and figures of speech.
