LEADER 02473nam 2200325zu 450 001 9910834301403321 005 20240313182518.0 010 $a1-80008-621-0 010 $a1-80008-618-0 035 $a(CKB)30674298600041 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781800086210 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930674298600041 100 $a20240305|2024uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 $aArabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945 210 $cUCL Press$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 $a1-80008-619-9 330 $a During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language. Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon's Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks. 606 $aArabic language 606 $aVisitors, Foreign 615 0$aArabic language 615 0$aVisitors, Foreign 676 $a492.780071 700 $aMairs$b Rachel$0611680 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910834301403321 996 $aArabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945$94131524 997 $aUNINA