Levantine Arabic Learning Resources: Grammar Reference Books

Grammar Reference Books

Levantine Arabic: Easy Grammar
Levantine Arabic learners' guide is aimed to be a grammar reference for students and to support them during their learning journey. The book uses a very easy method to follow in terms of explaining the grammar and more the focus on the practice and examples and over 1000 essential vocabulary.

Grammar Book for Levantine Dialect (Lebanese/Syrian/Palestinian/Jordanian)
Master the Levantine dialect's grammar with this comprehensive guide. Featuring 24 lessons all accompanied with their own engaging exercises and activities that will help you to fully grasp each lesson. The book doesn't shy away from offering the appropriate cultural insights, as our practice sections aim at helping you fully grasp the various linguistic skills within their communicative and socio-cultural contexts. The rules and instructions for the practice section are all written in English. Latin transliterations are only provided for the parts that include pronunciation or phonetic instructions.

A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic
This important publication, enhanced with an audio CD to supplement the first chapter of the text (sounds), is another addition to Georgetown's world-renowned Arabic language-learning materials and is considered to be one of the most outstanding descriptions of any Arabic dialect written for the English-speaking world. It is comprehensive in its coverage ― ranging from phonology (how sounds are organized and used) to morphology (sound, syllable, and word structure), with an analysis that is insightful and original. It contains hints on how to master nuances in dialectical pronunciation, as well as the differences of meaning in their various forms. It is written based on the dialect of Damascus with references made to regional variants.

Speak Lebanese: The Basics of the Lebanese Language
The aim of this book is to provide an understanding of Lebanese Arabic from a grammatical perspective. You will learn through this book how to pronounce the letters, the rules for conjugating most Lebanese verbs (with a supplemental library of 426 verbs each conjugated in 6 tenses,) you will find a brief English-Lebanese dictionary of commonly used words and tips for using Lebanese words properly in a sentence. It is important to know that countless dialect variations exist in Lebanon. However, the differences are not significant and all Lebanese people understand each other easily. This book offers one of the forms of these dialects and tries to choose the simplest form of communication when many options exist.

Lebanese Arabic: The Easy Way to Learn Lebanese Grammar
Are you struggling to find a good resource for learning the grammar of the Lebanese/Levantine Arabic? Since Fusha or MSA is not spoken in the Arab world, there haven't been many good resources for teaching the spoken dialect. This book however will give you the right steps into the Lebanese grammar, making it as simple as it can be. This whole book is purposefully written in Latin letters, so that you can understand how to pronounce the words correctly and make it easier for you to learn, without having to learn the Arabic letters.

Palestinian Spoken Arabic (Arabic Edition)
This is the third volume of the Palestinian Spoken Arabic series. The present volume constitutes the textbook used by students taking the third level of spoken Arabic at Polis - The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities. Among others, this volume teaches how to use the Arabic modal verbs (to express their will, intention, obligation, etc.), talk about past or finished actions, or express instructions or commands.

Arabic vs. Arabic: A Dialect Sampler
While this book does not focus on Levantine Arabic grammar, it lets you explore and compare the grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation of 15 varieties of Arabic (i.e. Modern Standard Arabic and 14 dialects, including all four Levantine Arabic dialects) through tables with notes and free, downloadable accompanying audio. You can go through the tables in order or skip around the book to see what catches your attention. The book really is meant to be a sampler platter to give you a taste of each Arabic dialect and a better understanding of just how varied the various varieties of Arabic are. The layout encourages the self-discovery method of learning. While the notes under many tables identify points of interest, you are encouraged to find patterns, exceptions, innovative features of dialects, and universals by studying the tables and listening to the audio tracks.