| Contents of the Audio MP3 Files | p. xiii |
| Arabic Research at Georgetown University | p. xxv |
| The History of the Arabic Research Program, Institute of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University | p. xxvi |
| Foreword to the Georgetown Classics Edition | p. xxviii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxx |
| Introduction | p. xxxi |
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| Consonants p b k g f v [Theta] [delta] s z s z c j m n w y | p. 1 |
| Vowels: General comments | p. 3 |
| Long vowel aa | p. 5 |
| Long vowel ii | p. 7 |
| Long vowel uu | p. 8 |
| Long vowel oo | p. 9 |
| Long vowel ee | p. 10 |
| Long vowels: Summary | p. 12 |
| Automatic stress (1) | p. 13 |
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| Short vowel a | p. 15 |
| Automatic stress (2) | p. 16 |
| Short vowel i | p. 17 |
| Short vowel u | p. 18 |
| Medial consonant clusters | p. 19 |
| Medial double consonants | p. 19 |
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| Consonant t | p. 21 |
| Consonant d | p. 23 |
| Consonant l | p. 24 |
| Diphthongs aaw and aw | p. 26 |
| Medial double ww | p. 27 |
| Syllable structure; automatic stress (3) | p. 28 |
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| Consonant h | p. 31 |
| Consonant r | p. 32 |
| Consonant [characters not reproducible] | p. 34 |
| Diphthongs aay and ay | p. 38 |
| Medial double yy | p. 39 |
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| Emphatic consonants: General comments | p. 40 |
| Emphatic consonant l | p. 42 |
| Emphatic consonant t | p. 43 |
| Emphatic consonant s | p. 45 |
| Emphatic consonant [delta] | p. 46 |
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| Primary and secondary emphatics: General comments | p. 48 |
| Emphatic consonants p b f m z | p. 49 |
| Initial consonant clusters | p. 51 |
| Initial double consonants | p. 52 |
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| Consonant x | p. 54 |
| Consonant g | p. 58 |
| Short vowel o | p. 60 |
| Diphthongs eew, ooy, and iw | p. 61 |
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| Consonant q | p. 61 |
| Final consonant clusters; automatic stress (4) | p. 63 |
| Final double consonants; automatic stress (5) | p. 64 |
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| Consonant [characters not reproducible] | p. 65 |
| Consonant [characters not reproducible] | p. 68 |
| Non-automatic stress | p. 72 |
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| Assimilation | p. 73 |
| Loss of initial [characters not reproducible] | p. 74 |
| Helping vowel | p. 74 |
| Loss of stem vowel | p. 75 |
| Double consonants | p. 76 |
| Charts | p. 77 |
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| Dialogue | p. 79 |
| Grammar | |
| Pronoun suffixes: Second person | p. 82 |
| Independent personal prounons: Second person | p. 83 |
| Adjectives: Masculine, feminine, and plural forms | p. 84 |
| Drills | p. 85 |
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| Dialogue | p. 87 |
| Grammar | |
| Pronoun suffixes: First person | p. 89 |
| The preposition [characters not reproducible]ind | p. 89 |
| Noun gender and adjective agreement | p. 90 |
| Iraqi equivalents of English indefinite article | p. 91 |
| The article prefix l-/D- | p. 91 |
| The demonstrative prefix hal-/haD- | p. 93 |
| Drills | p. 93 |
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| Dialogue | p. 98 |
| Grammar | |
| Pronoun suffixes: First-person pronoun suffix -ni | p. 100 |
| Independent personal pronouns: First person | p. 100 |
| Preposition suffix -l- 'to, for' | p. 101 |
| Prefix s- 'what' | p. 102 |
| Prefix w- 'and' | p. 102 |
| Adjective inflection: Stem changes | p. 103 |
| Drills | p. 104 |
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| Dialogue | p. 109 |
| Grammar | |
| Interrogative sinu 'what' | p. 111 |
| Equational sentences | p. 112 |
| General demonstrative pronoun: Masculine and feminine forms | p. 112 |
| Preposition prefix l-/D- 'to, for' | p. 114 |
| Imperfect tense: First-person forms | p. 115 |
| Imperfect tense: Second-person forms | p. 116 |
| Future prefix ra[characters not reproducible] | p. 118 |
| Drills | p. 119 |
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| Narrative | p. 124 |
| Grammar | |
| Preposition prefix b- 'in' | p. 125 |
| Imperfect tense: Third-person forms | p. 125 |
| Summary of imperfect-tense verb forms | p. 127 |
| Pronoun suffixes: Third person | p. 131 |
| Summary of pronoun suffix forms used with consonant stems | p. 132 |
| Verb strings | p. 134 |
| Drills | p. 135 |
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| Dialogue | p. 142 |
| Grammar | |
| laazim 'must' | p. 145 |
| Imperative forms (1) | p. 145 |
| Negative commands | p. 146 |
| Pronoun suffix forms used with vowel stems | p. 147 |
| Vowel stems | p. 149 |
| The preposition [characters not reproducible]ala 'on' | p. 150 |
| Drills | p. 151 |
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| Dialogue | p. 158 |
| Grammar | |
| Interrogatives sgadd 'how much' and cam 'how many' | p. 160 |
| The numerals 'one' and 'two' | p. 162 |
| Noun-adjective phrases: Agreement in definiteness (1) | p. 163 |
| Drills | p. 164 |
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| Dialogue | p. 168 |
| Grammar | |
| Imperfect verb stems beginning with a vowel | p. 170 |
| Imperative forms (2) | p. 171 |
| Verb 'to be able, can' | p. 173 |
| minnaa and minnaak | p. 173 |
| The numerals from 'three' to 'ten' | p. 174 |
| Independent personal pronouns: Third person and summary | p. 174 |
| Drills | p. 175 |
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| Dialogue | p. 180 |
| Grammar | |
| Interrogative -ees 'what'; b-ees 'how much' | p. 181 |
| The dual | p. 182 |
| Feminine -t- stems | p. 183 |
| The numerals from 'eleven' to 'nineteen' | p. 184 |
| Drills | p. 184 |
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| Narrative | p. 189 |
| Grammar | |
| Forms of preposition min 'from, of' | p. 190 |
| The numerals from 'twenty' to 'ninety-nine' | p. 191 |
| Telling time | p. 192 |
| Pre-nouns: geer and fadd | p. 194 |
| Drills | p. 195 |
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| Dialogue | p. 200 |
| Grammar | |
| Conjunctions: Prepositions plus suffix -ma | p. 201 |
| Forms of verb stems used with preposition suffix -l- 'to, for' | p. 202 |
| Special forms of the verb 'to say' used with preposition suffix -l- 'to, for' (1) | p. 203 |
| Drills | p. 204 |
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| Dialogue | p. 206 |
| Grammar | |
| Prefect tense: Sound verbs (1) | p. 207 |
| The particle ba [characters not reproducible]ad 'still, yet' plus pronoun suffixes | p. 210 |
| Drills | p. 211 |
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| Dialogue | p. 213 |
| Grammar | |
| Perfect tense: Sound verbs (2) | p. 214 |
| Progressive prefix da- | p. 215 |
| Suffixing stems of [characters not reproducible] ax 'brother' and [characters not reproducible] ab 'father' | p. 216 |
| Noun-adjective phrases: Agreement in definiteness (2) | p. 216 |
| Drills | p. 217 |
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| Dialogue | p. 219 |
| Grammar | |
| Conjunctions: Interrogatives plus suffix ma- | p. 220 |
| Noun plurals: General comments | p. 221 |
| Sound masculine plurals: Suffixes -iin and -a | p. 221 |
| Sound feminine plurals: Suffix -aat | p. 222 |
| Broken plurals | p. 223 |
| Numerals from 'three' to 'ten': Combining forms | p. 225 |
| Numerals: The hundreds | p. 225 |
| Drills | p. 227 |
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| Narrative | p. 229 |
| Grammar | |
| Perfect tense: Hollow verbs | p. 230 |
| Perfect-tense verbs with pronoun suffixes | p. 231 |
| Special forms of gaal 'to say' used with preposition suffix -l- 'to, for' (2) | p. 232 |
| Drills | p. 233 |
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| Dialogue | p. 235 |
| Grammar | |
| Annexions | p. 237 |
| Preposition -b- 'in' with pronoun suffixes | p. 239 |
| Perfect tense: Doubled verbs | p. 240 |
| Drills | p. 241 |
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| Dialogue | p. 243 |
| Grammar | |
| Perfect tense: Defective verbs | p. 244 |
| The verb [characters not reproducible] ija or jaa 'to come' | p. 245 |
| The post-stated object | p. 246 |
| The particle xoos 'good' | p. 247 |
| Drills | p. 247 |
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| Dialogue | p. 249 |
| Grammar | |
| Roots and patterns | p. 251 |
| Feminine form of adjectives | p. 252 |
| The comparative | p. 254 |
| Drills | p. 256 |
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| Dialogue | p. 259 |
| Grammar | |
| The verb caan 'to be' | p. 260 |
| The verb caan as an auxiliary | p. 261 |
| Drills | p. 263 |
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| Narrative | p. 265 |
| Drills | p. 266 |
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| Dialogue | p. 269 |
| Grammar | |
| Sentence types: Equational, verbal, and topical | p. 270 |
| Plural forms of adjectives | p. 272 |
| Adjective agreement in gender and number | p. 273 |
| Agreement of pronouns and verbs | p. 275 |
| Drills | p. 276 |
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| Dialogue | p. 278 |
| Grammar | |
| Relative clauses | p. 280 |
| Constructions with maal | p. 282 |
| Drills | p. 283 |
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| Dialogue | p. 285 |
| Grammar | |
| Verb classes | p. 287 |
| Inflection of derived and quadriliteral verbs | p. 297 |
| Ordinal numerals | p. 300 |
| Numerals: The thousands and millions | p. 301 |
| Days of the week, month, and dates | p. 302 |
| Drills | p. 304 |
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| Dialogue | p. 306 |
| Grammar | |
| Suffix -man 'whose, whom' | p. 307 |
| Active participles: Class I | p. 308 |
| The word nafis 'soul; same; self' | p. 314 |
| Drills | p. 314 |
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| Narrative | p. 316 |
| Grammar | |
| Active participles: Class II to X and Quadriliterals | p. 317 |
| The auxiliary caan with active participle | p. 322 |
| Adjectives of color and defect | p. 323 |
| Drills | p. 324 |
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| Dialogue | p. 326 |
| Grammar | |
| Collectives and unit nouns | p. 328 |
| Passive participles | p. 330 |
| Nouns ending in -ci | p. 332 |
| Drills | p. 333 |
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| Dialogue | p. 335 |
| Grammar | |
| Conditional sentences | p. 336 |
| Imperatives: Summary; prefixes di- and xal- | p. 338 |
| Far demonstratives and summary | p. 341 |
| Drills | p. 343 |
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| Dialogue | p. 345 |
| Grammar | |
| The stem -yyaa- | p. 346 |
| Summary of negatives | p. 349 |
| Drills | p. 351 |
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| Dialogue | p. 353 |
| Grammar | |
| Nisba adjectives | p. 355 |
| Feminie -t- stems of the pattern FvMLat- | p. 357 |
| Drills | p. 358 |
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| Narrative | p. 361 |
| Grammar | |
| Verbal nouns | p. 362 |
| Drills | p. 365 |
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