A Beginners’ Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 1 Samia Louis The complete series of innovative new coursebooks in Egyptian colloquial Arabic Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor and course developer‎,‎ Samia Louis has used a functional approach to create a bright‎,‎ innovative set of coursebooks for the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic—the spoken dialect most frequently studied and most widely understood in the Arab world‎.‎ Now three new books‎,‎ for beginner‎,‎ early advanced‎,‎ and higher advanced students‎,‎ have been added to the series‎.‎ Designed according to the ACTFL guidelines for teaching Arabic as a foreign language‎,‎ each book of Kallimni ‘Arabi trains students through highly structured lessons in the crucial skills‎,‎ with particular emphasis on listening and speaking‎,‎ using real‎-life situations and expressions‎.‎ The accompanying audio CD carries recordings of the dialogs and exercises in each chapter‎,‎ made by Egyptian native speakers‎.‎ “The books in the [Kallimni ‘Arabi] series altogether present the best Arabic textbooks available ‎.‎ ‎.‎ ‎.‎ miles ahead of most others‎.‎”—David Wilmsen‎,‎ American University of Beirut Bookmark and Share E‎-mail to a friend Print Samia Louis has taught Arabic for fifteen years with the International Language Institute ‎(‎ILI‎)‎ in Cairo ‎(‎www‎.‎arabicegypt‎.‎com‎)‎‎,‎ an affiliate of the International House World Organization‎.‎ She is also a writer and course developer‎.‎ Customer Reviews No available reviews Write your own review ›