Kalila wa Dimna, a well-known Arabic literary classic, on which the present volume is based, is an eighth-century translation of a collection of fables about people and animals that has long been enjoyed by Arab children and adults alike. In this illustrated rendition, Younes retells these fables in simplified language for intermediate and advanced students of Arabic. Each story is accompanied by an illustration and a set of activities geared towards enhancing the student’s reading and listening comprehension as well as the individual’s speaking and writing skills.

The book can be used in a classroom or for independent study. The three CD’s that accompany it include the texts of the stories read by the author. A comprehensive glossary at the end of the book includes all the words that were judged to be difficult or new for the intermediate-level student.

The book is particularly effective as a vocabulary-building tool, as the stories focus on key themes and a limited set of characters or character types. Consequently, much of the vocabulary recycles from one story to another, facilitating acquisition and active use.

The material aims to build the student’s confidence with the language. The comfortable presence of a context and a story line promotes comprehension; the stories are much easier to understand than groups of isolated sentences or descriptive passages.

As students read or listen to a story, they can predict or guess the meaning of unfamiliar words and structures.

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