 The Rocket Arabic Premium Interactive Audio Course is designed to get you participating in a series of conversations between Arabic speakers, and covers everyday topics that you will encounter in a modern, Arabic-speaking environment. Each conversation is broken down into easy to manage parts, and you get written transcripts of each conversation, so that you can keep up with the lesson and get comfortable with written Arabic.
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IT is well worth learning the Arabic script, even for a relatively short period of travel in the Middle East. At the very least, you will be able to recognise place names, destination signs on buses, and so on.
The Arabic script seems daunting at first, and some people try to avoid learning it by relying on transliterations of Arabic words. This merely stores up problems for later; it is much better to ignore transliterations and use the script from the start.
Don’t try to learn the whole alphabet at once. If you learn three letters each day and practise for an hour every evening it will take less than two weeks.
Practise writing each letter in all its forms (initial, medial and final), pronouncing it aloud as you write.
After you have learned a few letters, practise writing them in groups of three, in the order they occur in the alphabet. Each time you write a group, drop the first letter from the beginning and add another to the end, working through the alphabet:
alif-ba-ta, ba-ta-tha, ta-tha-jim, tha-jim-ha, etc.
Do this once saying the names of the letters, and once pronouncing them as if they were a word:
abata, batatha, tathaja, thajaha, etc.
Once you can do the whole series from memory, you are ready to start learning the language.
