Manual Transliteration Systems I have used

Arabic:: Library of Congress , International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (scroll to yellow), Foreign Service Institute (page 13 of Smith's 1969 Modern Written Arabic)
YIVO for Yiddish and Hebrew

Persian: SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center LARC transliteration system and Dr. Atefeh Oliai's variations on this

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Russian: IPA

American Sign Language (ASL): SignWriting as used by researchers at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA)

Handling special characters

Embedding IPA and non-Latin characters so they display on a screen using Unicode

On-line (free) courses

Peace Corps audio files: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/index.cfm#arabic

Jordanian Arabic
Download the transcript of this lesson (pdf–265 KB)
Lesson 1: Greetings & Personal Identification
Lesson 2: Physical State
Lesson 3: Family
Lesson 4: Useful Expressions
Lesson 5: Communication Difficulties
Lesson 6: Food
Lesson 7: Directions
Lesson 8: Numbers & Money
Lesson 9: Question Words
Lesson 10: Time SenseS

ubscribe to the Peace Corps' Jordanian Arabic lessons by pasting the XML file into your podcast software.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/arabic.xml
Additional Resources:
Lesson: Serious Doodling
Holiday: Eid al-Fitr

Arabic Language Learning Resources

1. LanguageGuide's عربي spoken and written vocabulary
   
2. Sajida Abu Ali's An Internet Hotlist on The Arabic language
   
3. http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Folder.do?packID=24753A rainbow of colors
   
4. The numbers 0 to 10 (Don't be confused by the numerals on the left-hand side of the word-list!)
   
   Global Linguist's Arabic folder for building spoken and written vocabulary (no fee at this time)




5. An example in Arabic of the Sheltered Initiation Language Learning (SILL), created by Zev bar-Lev of San Diego State University.
   
   
   

HW for coming Tues

waajib (obligatory homework)

p. 45 Drill 3
p. 46 Drill 5
p. 48 Drill 6
p. 48 Drill 7


thaanawi (th is voiceless)
(optional homework)

practice saying 10 colors in Arabic
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Folder.do?packID=24754 vocab table of contents
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/List.do?packID=24758 the color package