Arabic-English/English-Arabic Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries)

This dictionary is great for quickly learning the two-word association. It pairs very well with Arabic for Dummies by Amine Bouchentouf,& helps the "student" learn to understand & speak Arabic in just a few weeks. My 32 year old son had me purchase Arabic for Dummies for him as a gift. After a week or two, he asked if I would also get him this dictionary. He said this dictionary was necessary while studying Arabic for Dummies. This means that one needs to know what Arabic-English words go together & their meaning, before one can effectively learn to speak Arabic & know what he is saying. I would recommend this Arabic-English/ English-Arabic dictionary for anyone wanting to learn to speak Arabic. It is a great tool. My son was speaking sentences in a few short weeks.

Awde and Smith's ARABIC PRACTICAL DICTIONARY, Arabic-English, English-Arabic, is the perfect dictionary for university students in beginning and intermediate Arabic courses. First of all, it has an up-to-date vocabulary (2004 publication), and it fits their budgets, as it's very inexpensive, compared to most university textbooks today; and it also contains almost everything they'll need in the way of grammatical points. The Arabic-English section is great training for students just beginnning to look up words using the Arabic script. The Arabic words are also transliterated, and I am a great believer in transliteration (if it's used correctly). Transliteration will solve any reading problems a student might have and allow that student to refocus quickly on the Arabic script with the right pronunciation in his or her head. Noun plurals are given and this is especially helpful with the broken plurals in Arabic. Any vowel changes that occur in the various forms of the verbs are also listed. Other, larger, dictionaries are available for advanced study, but this one works extremely well in the beginning.

A handy but not quite pocket-sized dictionary of 18,000 entries that must have been compiled using up-to-date source material. Look up coalition, extremist, bomber, martyr, military occupation, resistance, torture, prison, fanatic, graveyard, reconstruction, genocide, or refugee, and you'll find what you need. The Arabic script is crystal clear and of more than adequate font size. Short appendices include the days of the week, months in two forms plus the Islamic months, and country names. The phonetics for both the Arabic and English entries are easily understood, the dictionary being intended for both students of English and Arabic. This may be the only dictionary out there that you would actually ever be tempted to carry around with you. Lots of value for a very reasonable price!

I enjoyed using this book when I was learning arabic. This book was a very good "starter" arabic dictionary from which I turned to the Hans Wers arabic dictionary in order to become more accurate and gramatically correct for writting. This book makes it very easy to translate basic everyday words that I would need when I first began to learn arabic. The small size of the book makes it handy to simply pull out in a moments notice if I forgot how to spell a word or if I had forgotten an arabic word alltogether. Half of the book is arabic to english, and then the other half, english to arabic translated. Thus, this is useful for both english and arabic learners. This book makes a good companion dictionary, but you will certainly need a more decisive dictionary if you will be learning arabic in a more extensive manor. Good Buy, I would recommend.Please ask questions, I will respond.

Has transliterations for Arabic in addition to the Arabic script, which is a life-saver if you are just starting out and unsure whether you are pronouncing Arabic words correctly. And unlike Hans-Wehr it is both English-Arabic and Arabic-English. It would be nice there was more material but for the first-year student of Arabic this is probably all you will really need.

I was enrolled in an intensive, 20-hour/week Arabic class, and I was in serious need of a good dictionary that I could carry around in my backpack. I probably went through at least 10 dictionaries from other well known publisher and some travel guides, but most turned out to be terrible (mixing different local dialects, mispelling or not adhering to romanization, etc).This dictionary has a very large selection of useful words, and I found it to be the easiest and most convenient dictionary to carry around for the serious Arabic learner.I would also recommenend this dictionary in conjunction with a small phrase book for tourists as well.

I had previously purchased "Compact" dictionaries and my students told me they were useless. My students like this one though, it is not too large and does not get in their way on their desks, but it has what they need to help them. It is also cost effective as many of these Arabic dictionaries can be expensive. I did a bunch of research before purchasing and am happy with this decision.

this is certainly a good dictionary for a good price. After considering other reviews, and weighing up if I was ready for "root" focussed dictionary, I opted for this alphabetic order one and am not disappointed. it is the ideal complement to a more or less beginner student and if you progress as slowly as I have with this (to my mind) somewhat difficult language the dictionary will last you for a very long time. well worth it, thanks Amazon.