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Levantine Arabic Verbs: شرب shirib (to drink)
Each of these videos presents the full conjugation of a common Levantine (Lebanese) Arabic verb, along with example sentences. Down the PDF for free.
Why does it sound like he is whispering?
I think that’s his “radio” voice. 🙂
I own four paperback books from the Levantine series. Overall, this is an excellent book, giving a good introduction to the the various “measures” of verbs and their conjugation.
As with any of the books offered by Lingualism, some prior knowledge of Arabic is helpful, even necessary.
The verbs are arranged in tables giving the conjugation of the perfect (past) tense, the imperfect (present)and the bi-imperfect forms, as well as the imperative and active participle forms.
Each word in the conjugation tables are given in Arabic script and in IPS transliteration.
My one complaint is that many of the example sentences, of which there are five or six per table, are difficult to understand. English idioms don’t fit neatly into Arabic translation, and many of the verbs are rendered in English words that differ from the basic meaning of each verb. For example, the verb ta’allam, “he learned” is translated as “he studied” in the example sentences. This is especially confusing as the verb daras, “he studied” has its own table. Haki, “he speaks” is translated as ‘alam, “he knew”. The examples also contain Arabic idioms that are not explained, and can be quite confusing for beginning and self-teaching students.
Nonetheless, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn spoken Arabic.