Mastering Arabic Script A Guide To Handwriting

This textbook is an engaging, highly illustrated guide to learning handwriting as opposed to the printed form of the Arabic script. Well-formed and fluent handwriting is much admired throughout the Arab world. The book teaches Arabic handwriting in the form universally used by adult native speakers (riq'a) and compares it with naskh, the usual printed form. There are three parts to the book covering: the basic letter shapes, combinations of letters and an additional extended writing section. Clear examples, a wealth of practice material, insider tips from a leading expert, and lively activities and photos make the book easy to follow and enjoyable to work through. The book can be used to supplement the popular Mastering Arabic courses or independently from them. Aimed at beginners or early intermediate learners of Arabic, Mastering Arabic Script is ideal for both self-study use and classroom courses.

Provides an easy-to-understand, practical guide to Arabic script. Explains the basic letter shapes, the combinations of letters, and different writing methods.--From publisher's description.

This full colour text comes with free audio and video online through an accompanying website. It is a modern, engaging, intermediate Arabic course offering lively conversations, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights. The course is highly illustrated in full colour with photos and cartoons and includes an abundance of exercises to aid learning and encourage practice in listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is backed up by online exercises including a link to interactive flashcards, and is supported by a range of additional activity, grammar and handwriting books. The course follows on from the best-selling Mastering Arabic 1 but is suitable for any learner with some prior knowledge of Arabic. The Mastering Arabic series is widely used in universities, schools, community colleges, adult evening classes and for self-study.

Write it in Arabic is an alphabet guide and workbook which offers a hands-on approach to learning Arabic. The book covers the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, numbers, vowel marks and handwriting. This workbook includes plenty of examples that teach how to read and write the Arabic script, guides students through the pronunciation of each letter while introducing them to new vocabulary. This book opens from right to left, like any book printed in Arabic.

The Middle East and other Arabic-speaking regions are of central importance in the world today. This handy booklet, designed to be carried in one's pocket, presents the basics of reading and understanding Arabic script. It begins with an introduction to the alphabet and the pronunciation of Arabic characters. The book also features the rules of reading and writing the language, including reading direction, consonant-vowel elisions, and, of course, letter linkages or ligatures, notoriously the most difficult aspect of the script to learn. It is an essential tool for travelers, businesspeople, and military personnel in the Middle East and other places where Arabic is spoken.

Do you want to perfect your handwriting? Do you need a trustworthy resource to teach your small children to trace the Arabic alphabet? Then this workbook is the perfect companion for your studies. In it, you'll find all the Standard Modern Arabic letters in the isolated, initial, medial and final form variations. Your benefits: Clear large letters make it easy to recognize even the most detailed of the Arabic characters. Detailed stroke order instructions provide you with a strong foundation to build your skills. Dedicated "Trace and Learn" sections are designed to imprint proper stroke technique unto your muscle memory. Font variations are prepared to train your brain to recognize alternative character styles easily. Simple pronunciation guidelines prevent you from feeling overwhelmed while helping you to understand the basic sound of each letter. As a bonus, for each character, you'll find extra 8.5 x 11 inches pages fully dedicated to the handwriting practice of that letter in all 4 different forms, isolated, initial, medial and final, with and without a guiding background light-gray letter. Feel free to photocopy these pages as you wish to extend the lifetime value of your workbook. Special information: As with all Lang Workbooks, this work is a labor of love. Accordingly, if you are a teacher, a student of Arabic, or homeschooling your children, then you can photocopy any part of this workbook for your own, or your students, personal use. Learning to write the Arabic script by heart has never been made easy.

This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

This hugely successful beginner's course offers modern, engaging Modern Standard Arabic lessons through lively dialogues, varied exercises and fascinating cultural insights. This is the only user-friendly, accessible beginner level course on the market accompanied by audio CDs with native Arabic speakers. It suits an incredibly diverse learner base - self-study, through community college and school, to university primer/first year course. Students can continue their learning with a workbook "Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book" and the new second level course "Mastering Arabic 2 with 2 Audio CDs".