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Quote Palomnik Replybullet Posted: 08 April 2008 at 9:32am
Biscuit:  I discovered the other day that both the Hans Wehr and Mawrid dictionaries are available for free on the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), much to my surprise, since I didn't think they were in the public domain.
 
I know that Lane's Lexicon is also available for free somewhere online, but I have to find the right website.  In any case, he's too prolix for a beginner to use.


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Quote workerbee Replybullet Posted: 09 April 2008 at 11:27am
I was able to search the way back archive using the terms Arabic dictionary and found the link to the Hans Wehr dictionary. I was unable to come up with the Al-Mawrid dictionary.

What terms should I search to find this? Thanks so much!
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Quote Palomnik Replybullet Posted: 15 April 2008 at 1:55pm
Workerbee:
 
 
Although I must unfortunately advise you that this is apparently Mawrid's Arabic-English Dictionary (also sometimes called the Hava Dictionary), not the English-Arabic one, so it may not be what you're looking for.
 
The Mawrid/Hawa dictionary is also quite good, although if a beginner is forced to choose between which one to use, the choice has to be the Wehr dictionary.  The Mawrid has a lot of older words and expressions in it and may be useful at a later stage when you start feeling into medieval material.
 
By the way, as I mentioned earlier, Lane's Lexicon - all ten volumes of it, in its abstruse glory - is available downloadable for free at http://www.studyquran.co.uk/LLhome.htm
 
I have rarely ventured into Lane for an answer to a vocabulary question, and when I did I usually went away more confused than when I started.  It's not a work for the fainthearted, but it's nice to know that it's there!


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Quote maguy2008 Replybullet Posted: 17 June 2008 at 2:13am
Hey everybody,
 
If you are interested in Learning Arabic quickly and in an easy way, try what i did.. learn Arabic online on www.arabicollege.com you will be attending an online arabi course live video conversation with native Arabic teachers..its amazing i had a very fruitful experience...try it..
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Quote daristani Replybullet Posted: 17 June 2008 at 6:17am
This site seems to have a number of downloadable resources for Arabic, including Al-Mawrid (Arabic-English, at least that's how it's labeled.)

http://www.kalamullah.com/learning-arabic.html
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Quote maguy2008 Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2008 at 6:09am
Also Arabicollege.com have downloadable resources in the multimedia course yo will find many video recorded sketches made by famous arabian actors presenting conversations that you may need in your daily life, in work and business maybe or just to understand main word of arabic.
 
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