Aramco Arabic Language Series - Spoken Arabic. This item is unavailable.Aramco Arabic Language Series - Spoken Arabic

Black and white titled pale green wraps 16x23cm. Printed in Beirut by the Catholic Press. 159pp. Good, tanned and creased to the covers, with pencil annotations to some pages. Dated 1956 from the printer's code. This is the self-contained middle part of a course that began with "Basic Arabic" and ended with "Conversational Arabic". Between them, they mark a major advance in Aramco's Arabic language training from the pocket sized phrasebooks introduced in the mid-1940s to early 1950s. The course was first prepared by Aramco's Training Department for its Foreign Service Training Center located at Riverhead, Long Island before moving to Sidon in Lebanon. It was "subjected to the test of use, revised and improved over a period of several years" and accompanied in the classroom by records (Introduction). Building on the "Basic Arabic" (which introduced new employees to everyday spoken Gulf Arabic) this contains 12 themed Units for greetings and general phrases; on the job and asking directions; an interview; in the dining hall; a new employee; in the market; truck breakdown and car trouble; laying a water pipe (2 Units); the garage; a new houseboy; and seeing Dhahran. The latter takes in a tour of the machine shop, club house, movie theatre, swimming pool and dance hall, the Saudi camp (with its dorms, barastis and tents), the mosque, and oil stabiliser. Appendices cover the use of Arabic in training Saudi employees, and using a fire extinguisher. Students are directed from here to "Conversational Arabic", or "Basic Arabic" if not done already.…