We made using the FSI Modern Written Arabic Course 2 material easier to use and more effective. You can now read the ebook (in the pane on the left), listen to the audio (pane to the right) and practice your pronunciation (use on the Pronunciation Tool tab on right) all at the same time.

The FSI Modern Written Arabic Course 2 material can be used both as a self-guided course or with the assistance of a qualified tutor.

NOTE: Some of these ebooks are quite large and may take a minute to fully load.

Pronunciation tool

NOTE: To read the file, listen to the audios and use the pronunciation tab on your computer or device you need to have a PDF reader and a modern browser.

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 33

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 34

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 35

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 37

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 38

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 39

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 40

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 41

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 42

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 43

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 44

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 45

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 46

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 47

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 48

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 49

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 50

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 51

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 52

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 53

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 54

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 55

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 56

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 57

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 58

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 59

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 60

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 61

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 62

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 63

Modern Written Arabic - Volume 2 - Lesson 64

398 Pages of Free Lessons
378 Minutes of Free Audios
197900 KBs of Free Material
FSI Modern Written Arabic Course 2 - Image Modern Written Arabic, Volume II (of a 3 book course), derives from work over a period of years by the staff of the Foreign Service Institute Arabic Language and Area School in Beirut. It was covers units 33-64 of the course prepared for use in FSI programs of instruction for members of the U. S. Foreign Service and is intended to be used with the help of a native speaking Arabic instructor and with tape recordings.

The original materials on which this volume is based were prepared by Daud A. Abdo with the assistance ofSalwa Hily and under the general supervision of William G. Cowan. Modification of the Arabic text for this version was done by Nash' at Naja. The accompanying notes are primarily the work of Hartie L. Smith, Jr., who also made the final decisions on the form and content of the volume. In his part of the project Dr. Smith had valuable aid and counsel from
Warren C. Benedict and James A. Snow.

Tape recordings which are available to accompany Modern Written Arabic were prepared by George Sayegh. Previous editions of the manuscript were typed by Victoria Ilasheesh and Shoukri Alawy; camera copy for the present volume was typed by Elias Alawy. The manuscript in all stages of preparation was reviewed and corrected by Mr. Naja.

You can find the other volumes of the FSI Modern Written Arabic course here:
- FSI - Modern Written Arabic Course 1
- FSI - Modern Written Arabic Course 3
Modern Standard Arabic has developed out of Classical Arabic, the language of the Quran. During the era of the caliphate,Classical Arabic was the language used for all religious, cultural, administrative and scholarly purposes.

Modern Standard Arabic is the official Arabic language. It can be written and spoken, and there is no difference between the written and the spoken form.

In its written form, Modern Standard Arabic is the language of literature and the media. Books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, private and business correspondence, street signs and shop signs - all are written in Modern Standard Arabic.

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD. This includes both the literary language and varieties of Arabic spoken in a wide arc of territory stretching across the Middle East and North Africa. Some of the spoken varieties are mutually unintelligible, both written and orally, and the varieties as a whole constitute a sociolinguistic language. This means that on purely linguistic grounds they would likely be considered to constitute more than one language, but are commonly grouped together as a single language for political and/or ethnic reasons (see below). If considered multiple languages, it is unclear how many languages there would be, as the spoken varieties form a dialect chain with no clear boundaries. If Arabic is considered a single language, it perhaps is spoken by as many as 280 million first language speakers, making it one of the half dozen most populous languages in the world. If considered separate languages, the most-spoken variety would most likely be Egyptian Arabic, with 54 million native speakers still greater than any other Semitic language.
Arabic Modern Standard Arabic is spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Palestine
Arabic Modern Standard Arabic has no known alternate names.

Downloads

To download any of the files below to your default download location, just click on the link.
To download the link to a specific location, right-click on the link of the file you want to download. A menu should appear on your screen when you do. From that menu select "Save Link As..." (the exact wording can vary depending on your browser or operating system).