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Excerpt from Dirr's Colloquial Egyptian Arabic Grammar, for the Use of Tourists
The Arabic exercises may be translated into English and then back again into Arabic; in this way additional exercises may be formed. The verbs given after each conjugation should be con jugated throughout: the verb is the soul of the Arabic language. Of course the learning Of a language consists largely in learning by heart.
One should not allow oneself to be frightened by the tales of the excessive difficulty of learning Arabic; colloquial Arabic has very few stumbling-blocks. Russian and Hungarian are much harder; for my own part I maintain that French necessitates much more work. Even in the case of the notorious verb, the student will soon see that all its different forms have in reality but one conjugation. It really is not very difficult to initiate oneself into this vigorous language in a comparatively short time. The student who has worked thoroughly through the grammar and the reading matter will soon find his bearings in other books, especially in reading-books, and, if he has the good fortune to be able to put his knowledge to the practical test in the land of the Pharaohs, he will make rapid progress.
The territory of the modern Arabic dialects stretches over the whole of Northern Africa, part of the South, Syria, Palestine, and the peninsula of Arabia.
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