The Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic (Arabic Edition)
by Elisabeth Kendall
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Author: Elisabeth KendallEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); Arabic (Published)
Published: 2005-07-30
ISBN: 158901068X
Number of pages: 90
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Book Reviews of The Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic (Arabic Edition)
Book Review: UNDERSTAND what you are buying
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a useful resource IF you understand the stated purpose.
The book is a collection of glossaries of common media vocab items, collated by subject area. The way to use a book like this is to sit down and attempt to crash memorise as many terms within a chapter, for example economics. Drill and test yourself. Now open an Arabic newspaper to the economics section and have a go at reading an article or two. You might be pleasantly surprised.
While it would have been perhaps additionally useful to provide an alphabetic list (perhaps as an appendix) the book is NOT meant as a tool to discern the meaning of terms with which you are unfamiliar. If you buy this book and think it is an alphabetical listing to aide you in reading the papers, then you are suffering under a misapprehension. Any review on that basis is NOT fair to the intended purpose and explained means of delivery of the author (as clearly stated in the forward). Kendall tells you why the vocab isn't grouped alphabetically - because to do so has been shown to hinder retention.
If you are one of the readers or reviewers who made the error above, I would recommend that you purchase an incredibly useful tool that is very commonly available - indeed you may have seen them in your local bookshop. We call these texts "dictionaries". There are many available in small and large sizes, in modern editions, updated regularly. You might like to try one.
Forgive the sarcasm, but I really think it is unfair to the author to judge an orange on the assumption it is an apple, or chalk on the misapprehension it is cheese.
Ma sallamah.
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