Situational Levantine Arabic 1: Haki Kill Yoom

This book is wonderful! Well written, clear and useful!If you want to learn spoken Arabic from Lebanon and Syria, very close to the Palestinian and Jordanian varieties of spoken Arabic, you must buy it. These four varieties of spoken Arabic are mutually intelligible. I also recommend Shwayy and Haali and Kameen shwayy and Haali, Arabic Levantine verbs, Levantine colloquial vocabulary, Arabic vs Arabic - a dialect sampler and Levantine Situational Arabic II, all of them from Lingualism.Lingualism is a marvelous and extraordinary project to teach the Arabic language. Support Lingualism by buying its excellent books!As a professor in the field of philology with 20 years of experience in teaching (Latin, classical Greek and Hebrew) I am grateful for the existence of Lingualism.

Great course in conversational Lebanese Arabic. You do need a basis in modern standard Arabic or colloquial Arabic since the course doesn't explain grammar (verb conjugations, syntax etc.). If you already know basic Arabic, this is an excellent course to practice Lebanese dialect in everyday situations. Good quality audio downloadable from their website.

Nothing special, just1-get the lonely planet guide book and it’s a lot cheaper.2- It’s pointless and defeats the purpose as it’s not much clear3- some very random vocabulary as some of my friends told me that, they never use as such4-full of French words when there is the equivalent in Arabic told by natives.