This hugely successful beginner's course offers modern, engaging Modern Standard Arabic lessons through lively dialogues, varied exercises and fascinating cultural insights. This is the only user-friendly, accessible beginner level course on the market accompanied by audio CDs with native Arabic speakers. It suits an incredibly diverse learner base--self-study, through community college and school, to university primer/first year course. Students can continue their learning with a workbook Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book and the intermediate level course Mastering Arabic 2 with 2 Audio CDs.