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Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Language Course for Arabic (Modern Standard) Now with Level 1 of Rosetta Stone Arabic you will also get the FSI Saudi Arabic Digital edition! (a $99 value) The Rosetta Stone intensive courses assume no prior knowledge of a foreign language and will take the student through the equivalent of a year's college study, teaching both the spoken and written foreign language. Unlike learning in language classrooms, Rosetta Stone is designed to be entertaining and self-paced. You can learn a foreign language when you want, for as long or short a time as you wish. The complete set of Rosetta Stone language CD-ROM courses contains over 8,000 real life color images, plus thousands of words and phrases spoken by native speakers. Available for Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, French, German, Indonesian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Latin, Japanese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Rosetta Stone for Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 1 (with FSI Saudi Arabic Digital edition) $269 Rosetta Stone for Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 2 $299 Rosetta Stone for Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 3 $299 Levels 1 and 2 (with FSI Saudi Arabic Digital edition) $495 Levels 1, 2, and 3 (with FSI Saudi Arabic Digital edition) $675 More information for Rosetta Stone...
TeLL me More for Arabic TeLL me More is the first language learning method based on the use of speech recognition technology. This collection of CD-ROMs is geared not only towards learning Modern Standard Arabic, but also introduces different Arabic dialects. The nuances of both the spoken language (comprehension and pronunciation) and the written language (written expression and grammar) are easily mastered using this software. TeLL me More Arabic introduces the standard Arabic used in newspapers, television broadcasts and between Arabic speakers of different nationalities. At the same time, an introduction to dialects such as Egyptian, Yemeni, Algerian and Moroccan is also given. TeLL me More Arabic also offers a writing workbook designed to help students grasp the basics of the Arabic script. TeLL me More Arabic is divided into four levels, and includes 800 hours of learning and 5,000 exercises broken down into 21 different types of activities. Two packages are available for the beginning and intermediate student: The Complete Beginner/Beginner package allows you to acquire the basics of Arabic and make yourself understood in everyday situations, while the Intermediate/Advanced package reviews and expands upon your knowledge of basic Arabic and helps you to achieve a conversational level of practice. Each package includes one Installation CD-ROM, two Lesson CD-ROMs, a writing workbook and a headset. More about Tell Me More...
Al-Mumtaaz: Introduction to Arabic (A Multi-Media Language Acquisition Course) This multiple award winning, ten unit, interactive CD-ROM course contains almost two hours of high-quality video filmed on location with professional actors in Arabic-speaking countries. Designed both for self-study and classroom use, this program also introduces Levantine, Egyptian and Arabian dialects. The program centers around a group of tourists who travel to an Arab country where they learn basic language skills through 300 engaging and interactive learning exercises. Native speakers on CD-quality audio introduce Arabic sounds, basic vocabulary, useful expressions, introductory grammar, script, culture capsules and history. Students can record and compare their pronunciation with that of the native speaker, take part in simulated conversations, and generate and print vocabulary for study. Includes six Multi-Media Interactive CD-ROMS. "This set of six CD-ROM's was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle, the CINDY International (silver) and regional (gold) medals, and the National Association of Government communicators Gold Screen Competition 2nd place." - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service Al-Mumtaaz: Introduction to Arabic $345 Al-Mumtaaz: Introduction to Arabic site license (for up to 20 machines) $995
FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course CD-ROM - Urban Hijazi Dialect (New on FSI!) This course teaches the Urban Hijazi Dialect, the most widely spoken and understood dialect on the Arabian Peninsula, and the one used for government and commercial purposes. This is a modern course, assembled in 1974 for use by diplomats, business people and serious language students. Upon completion of this course the student should have attained a working proficiency in the language. Students will be able to satisfy routine social and business requirements, be able to carry on conversations regarding a wide range of topics, and comprehend speech at a normal rate of speed. The book also provides students with the basic grammatical structures of the dialect enabling them to proceed to a greater mastery of the language. This is an electronic CD-ROM version of the course, with an Adobe PDF of the text and MP3 audio files of the audio CDs, all on one CD-ROM for $99! CD-ROM with PDF and MP3 audio files (new on FSI!) $99 More information for FSI Saudi Arabic... More information for FSI courses...
Iraqi Dialect Orientation Course CD-ROM (New on FSI!) This course presumes a rudimentary knowledge of Arabic, and is designed to supplement existing texts. Lesson 1 stresses pronunciation and Iraqi dialect sounds; thereafter Lessons 2 through 11 are grouped by topic. Typical situations include greetings, use of courtesy phrases, expressions of time and weather, and similar topics. Originally produced by the Defense Language Institute for the Persian Gulf War, it is now published by Lucas Language and distributed by Multilingual Books, and comes with a 117 page text and four audio CDs. This is an electronic CD-ROM version of the course, with an Adobe PDF of the text and MP3 audio files of the audio CDs, all on one CD-ROM for $45! CD-ROM with PDF and MP3 audio files $45 More information for Iraqi Dialect Orientation Course... More information for FSI courses...
Arabic Download Store Buy the Saudi or Iraqi Arabic Digital Edition now and receive it today! This is the same content from the hardcopy editions, but with the text in PDF format and the audio in MP3 format. Downloads are a single (per level) compressed RAR format file, so when you purchase, please be prepared to download a large (>100 MB) file. Software to unpack RAR files is commonly available; a free open source compression manager is available at 7zip.org. Upon purchase you will leave this site; this is normal, our download store is supplied through Paypal by a separate service provider. We accept payments for download products by Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard. And your get BIG Savings! Why are our downloads less than half the price of the hardcopy courses? Well, when you buy in downloadable format, we save, so you save! No printing, reproduction, packaging, handling, and shipping costs for us means big savings for you. Go to Arabic Download Store...
Basics of Iraqi Arabic CD-ROM The Basics of Iraqi Arabic offers a beginning crash course to teach English-speakers the Iraqi Arabic language, and covers basic words, expressions and sentences that anybody speaking English would need to know in order to get around in Iraq. Each Arabic word or sentence or expression is taught with a transliteration in English, the meaning written in English, an audio recording of it in Iraqi Arabic, and the written version of it in Iraqi Arabic. The CD-ROM is divided into 23 lessons include 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. The CD-ROM runs on the Windows operating system on any computer with a sound card and web browser; the MP3 files on the CD-ROM can also be downloaded into an MP3 player and used in that format. Individual User $99 Network Licenses for Institutions and Organizations:
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Arabic The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
Talk More! CD-ROM Course for Arabic Talk More! continues the Talk Now! series using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques in a software package that is ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families. The software uses the familiar Eurotalk interactive style of learning, with topics such as The Alphabet, Greetings, At The Restaurant, Shopping, Getting Around, At The Hotel, One The Phone, Emergencies, Leisure, and Business, and modules on phrases and conversations, and entertaining quiz games to test and further learn the language. Help is available in over 25 languages and the package includes an Talk More! Extras disc with additional help languages and bonus material. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $45 More about the Talk More! series...
Talk Now! / Talk More! / World Talk Package for Arabic Now get Talk Now!, Talk More!, and World Talk from Eurotalk in a bundle and save $40! These courses perfectly complement each other, with World Talk and Talk More! at an intermediate level taking up where Talk Now! for beginners leaves off. Both offer the same format of interactive learning with fun games and tests that monitor your progress while you are having fun and learning. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $99
World Talk from EuroTalk for Arabic (for intermediate learners) World Talk is the perfect follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend! World Talk is now available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $49 More about World Talk...
Vocabulary Builder from EuroTalk for Arabic (for absolute beginners) Vocabulary Builder is an interactive flash card system for parents and teachers to help teach basic language, and for children to play games and record their own words and sentences. Help is provided in over 40 languages by a talented talking tiger! Now available for learning Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $49.95 More about Vocabulary Builder...
EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...
Windows XP Pro MultiLingual OEM with keyboard stickers for Arabic Get a multilingual version of Windows XP Pro with keyboard stickers for your language of choice! By building on the proven Windows 2000 operating system, Windows XP Professional Edition delivers a reliable foundation you can count on to keep your computer up and running when you need it most. This version of XP Pro is a multilingual version that can be localized to a variety of languages - if for some reason you need to use it in a language other than the one first planned for, you can simply change the settings, and it will localize to one of the 22 languages available. The installation for the Multilingual Windows version of XP Pro is in English; you may then install as many of the additional languages as desired. When the language support is installed, Windows and all the related utilities can be brought up by simply entering Control Panel, selecting the system language and logging out and back into Windows - no reboot is necessary. Comes without printed manual or box. $299 More information for Windows XP Pro MultiLingual OEM...
Global Office Suite Now get Global Writer and Global Office for Office 97/2000/XP in one package for an amazing price! Global Writer is the word processor that lets you write in 100 languages with one keyboard, and Global Office is the enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages - together they provide a complete multilingual suite. This package gives you a savings of $80 over buying these products individually! $299 More information for Global Office Suite...
Global Writer Professional Multilingual Word Processor Global Writer Professional is a word processor that lets you express yourself in 100 languages without learning a new keyboard layout or using stickers. It is very easy to use because it looks and feels like popular Windows applications. Global Writer's built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus make typing faster and more convenient than ever. Best of all, everything you need is included in the box, at an amazingly low price. Shipping weight 1 lb. $129 More information for Global Writer...
Global Office Language Support for Office 97/2000 Now you can write in all major languages from your standard English Windows in Office 97/2000! Unitype Global Office is an enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages to these Microsoft products: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is easy to use, yet powerful enough to support the most demanding tasks of businesses, translation professionals, and academics worldwide. Best of all, the program is simple to install and everything you need is on one CD-ROM. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $250 More information for Global Office...
Ectaco Language Teacher for Windows CD-ROM Dictionaries Language Teacher for Windows is a software version of the Language Teacher electronic handheld dictionaries of Ectaco, Inc. You can use it on any personal computer with the Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating system. A large volume dictionary database and the ability to translate to and from a language allow you to select the exact translation according to your needs. The word-for-word translation mode is very useful when all you need is general sense of a phrase or sentence. Prices range from $79.95 to $109.95, and are available for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Farsi, French, French-Russian, German, German-Polish, German-Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Yiddish. More information and ordering for Ectaco Language Teacher for Windows...
Language Teacher for Palm OS and Pocket PC Language Teacher is a software version of the Language Teacher electronic handheld dictionaries of Ectaco, Inc. that runs on Pocket PC's and computers with the Palm OS operating system, and is similar to the version for Windows. A large volume dictionary database and the ability to translate to and from a language allow you to select the exact translation according to your needs. The word-for-word translation mode is very useful when all you need is general sense of a phrase or sentence. $59.95 Palm OS for English <-> Arabic Pocket PC for English <-> Arabic More about Language Teacher for Palm OS and Pocket PC's...
Lingo Super1010 Electronic Dictionary The Lingo Super1010 is an updated and improved version of the Lingo 10 Talk. This new model has over 200,000 words and 23,000 useful phrases. This translator translates into foreign language characters and shows you phonetically how to pronounce the characters in your own language, and then pronounces them for you at the touch of a button - you no longer have to learn a foreign alphabet in order to converse in that language! It translates in all directions for the following languages: Arabic, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, and Turkish. year warranty. The Super1010 has clear sound quality as well as a backlit large 4-line easy-to-read LCD display for your comfort and convenience. You can also use the included earphone and volume control for private listening. Equipped with a powerful Databank, it allows you to store all of your appointments, telephone numbers, addresses and memos. The 8 Metric and 8 currency features and the Euro Converter are handy tools for the frequent traveler or business person. This translator also has world time for over 200 cities and a very accurate alarm feature. It weighs 5.5 ounces and is small enough to fit into your shirt/pants pocket or purse, and has an easy to use QWERTY keyboard. Other features include a 12-digit calculator, auto power off, contrast control, and many more convenient features. A soft carrying leatherette pouch and 3 AAA batteries are included; it comes with a one year warranty. $299 More about Ectaco Electronic Pocket Dictionaries...
Al-Mawrid Talking Dictionary BAS-1875 The BAS-1875 is the official authorized Arabic/English dictionary in the United Nations, and is aimed at Arabic speakers who wish to communicate in the English language. It is capable of pronouncing any word in English, with spelling correction in both languages, a complete English grammar guide; and conversation sentences that cover daily activities. The lexical dataset contains the whole text of Al-Mawrid Dictionaries (English/Arabic and Arabic/English), with an estimated 50 million definitions; the original text was composed by Scholar Munir Al-Baalbaki and Dr. Rohi Al-Baalbaki. It also contains the Merriam Webster English dictionary and the Larousse Concise French-English dictionary. It is easy to use, with an enlarged screen that uses icons for easy access of functionionality, with a completely integrated bilingual organizer (128 kb), enlarged references to cover the human body and historical figures, valuable information about the TOEFL examination, calculator and conversion for main measurements and currencies, a complete reference covering geographical, astronomical, and chemical information with major cities, area codes, and chronological time zones, and Hijri and Gregorian calendars with conversion. There is a Help Menu (how to use BookMan step by step), and it is Expandable by means of Bookman Cards which can be added to the unit (with 1 Bookman slots).The package includes PC-Link which is compatible with all Window platforms and can be connected to the internet for 1000's additonal titles (kit included), and also contains the MobiPocket Reader, which allows the users to download eNews from the website to the device thru BBC sites on the internet. Comes with a One-year warranty and is Powered by 2 AAA batteries (included). $399 More about Electronic Pocket Dictionaries...