United States Foreign Service Institute
   Basic Iraqi Arabic

Computer Based Training

The CD-ROM is divided into 23 lessons including common words and phrases dealing with: Greetings, Courtesy Conversations, Words and Phrases, Interrogative Words, Conciliatory Sentences, Verbs, Transportation, Numbers, Ordinal Numbers, Days of the Week, Time Expressions, Colors Directions, Locations, Medical Phrases, Sanitation, Food, Telephone Conversation, Military and Security Terms, Security Check and Search Personal Belongings, House Search, Interrogation, and Commands. With this method the user achieves a quick introduction to speaking and understanding the language.

Each Audio Lesson Includes:

    » A transliteration of the Iraqi Arabic term(s)
    » The English equivalent(s)
    » An icon to play the audio clip of the Iraqi pronunciation
    » The text in Iraqi Arabic script

System Requirements:

Windows operating system on any computer with a sound card and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The MP3 files on the CD-ROM can also be downloaded into an MP3 player and used in that format.

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About the Arabic Language

Arabic is spoken by almost 200 million people in more than twenty countries, from Morrocco to Iraq, and as far south as Somalia and the Sudan. As the language of Quran, the Holy book of Islam, it is thought as a first language in Muslim states throughout the world. The Arabic language originated in Saudi Arabia in pre-Islamic times, and spread rapidly across the Middle East. The languages of northern India, Turkey, Iran, Portugal, and Spain are full of words of Arabic origin. Modern Arabic varies a good deal from country to country, differing as much as, say Spanish and Portuguese. However, the classical written Arabic has changed little over the centuries.

Iraqi Arabic Reference Links

» U.S. State Department
» U.S. Embasy - Baghdad, Iraq
» U.S. Central Intellegence Agency - Factbook
» U.S. Department of Energy - Country Analysis

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