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Whether you’re on holiday or staying in one of the Arab countries for a slightly longer period of time, your Collins Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find exactly what you need, when you need it. With over a thousand clear and helpful images, you can quickly locate the vocabulary you are looking for.

The Visual Dictionary includes:

 10 chapters arranged thematically, so that you can easily find what you need to suit the situation

 images – illustrating essential items

 YOU MIGHT SAY… – common phrases that you might want to use

 YOU MIGHT HEAR… – common phrases that you might come across

 VOCABULARY – common words that you might need

 YOU SHOULD KNOW… – tips about local customs or etiquette

USING YOUR COLLINS VISUAL DICTIONARY

In order to make sure that the phrases and vocabulary in the Collins Visual Dictionary are presented in a way that’s clear and easy to understand, we have followed certain policies when translating:

1) This Collins Visual Dictionary is intended for those with an interest in the language and culture, but is not for academic study. The selection of vocabulary in the sections represent almost all Arab countries from Morocco in north-west Africa to Bahrain and Kuwait in the Middle East. While Modern Standard Arabic or Fusha is the main used language in translation, we have sometimes included other regional variants where applicable.

2) The definite article has been used where appropriate in the translation of nouns into Arabic.

business التِّجارة at-tejaara

Where commonly used, feminine forms of nouns have been shown with the masculine form as the main translation.

scientist العالِم/العالِمة al ʻaalem/al ʻaalema

3) The past tense is the verb tense used in the translation of infinitive verbs into Arabic.

to stop أوقفَ awqafa

4) The transliteration system used in the dictionary has been based on one which is frequently used in areas such as social media. On the next page, we have noted some helpful points about the pronunciation of Arabic. Sometimes, the same English letter has been used for two or more different Arabic letters that have the same basic sound but are pronounced slightly differently, for example:

• س and ص are both transliterated with an [s]; the letter ص is the heavier, thicker version of the letter س , and both are pronounced just like the English [s] sound, with ص sounding heavier than س .

car السّيّارة as-sayyaara

factory المَصنَع al masnaʼ

• د and ض are both transliterated with a [d]; where د sounds exactly the same as [d] in English, ض is a heavier [d] and is an emphatic consonant, whereas د isn’t.

warm دافِئ daafeʼ

boiled eggs بيضٌ مَسلوق baydun maslouq

• ت and ط are both transliterated with a [t]; in Arabic, ت is softer than ط and sounds exactly the same as [t] in the word “table”, whereas ط is a heavier sound, as in “toll” or “watt”.

apple التُّفّاح at-tuffaah

breakfast الفُطور al futoor

• ذ , ث and ظ are all transliterated with [th]; ث is pronounced as [th] in “thief”, and ذ is pronounced as [th] in “the”. ظ is a heavy version of ذ and the difference between ذ and ظ is very subtle (similar to [p] and [b] in English).

ice cream المُثلَّجات al muthallagaat

seeds البُذور al buthoor

wallet المِحفَظَة al mehfatha

Listening to the free audio resource will help you to identify the difference between the sounds described above.

FREE AUDIO

We have created a free audio resource to help you learn and practise the Arabic words for all of the images shown in this dictionary. The Arabic words in each chapter are spoken by native speakers, giving you the opportunity to listen to each word twice and repeat it yourself. Download the audio from the website below to learn all of the vocabulary you need for communicating in Arabic.

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