Arabic-English vocabulary available

I have just (Oct. 15, 2007) placed a 500-word Arabic-English list in the user area. It is part of a 1700-word data base that I maintain in Microsoft Access. In order to make the words acceptable to LingvoSoft it was necessary to remove the diacritics, unfortunately, which reduces the value of the list somewhat. Hence, it's impossible, for example, to know if the word "you" is "anti" (feminine) or "anta" (masculine) since the final vowel can't be shown - and this ambiguity is true for a number of words.
The majority of the words have been taken from Teach Yourself Arabic and Al-Kitaab, part one. I add to the Access data base daily, and will put more words on the LingvoSoft site if anyone is interested.

I tried using flashcard builder to generate Arabic flashcards but the text came out with weird characters in the middle of the words.. How did you get yours to work?

Yours is probably a question best answered by the LingvoSoft technical people. The versions I'm using are LS Flashcards for Palm OS, version 1.2 and LS Flashcard Builder 2006 for Windows, version 1.3.15; my handheld is a Palm Tungsten E2. The words display perfectly in both languages. There's only one thing that's slightly odd - I use the third column for "English comments" to indicate if the word is a masdar, or if both plural and singular words are shown (in the case of nouns). Anyone studying Arabic will know what I mean.

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When I select Arabic to English, the display is correct. For example, the Arabic words for "camel" are shown in the upper box with both singular and plural forms and the lower box displays "camel," with "(pl. s.) below it. When I select English to Arabic, however, the upper box contains "camel" and under it ";(pl. s.)". I have no idea why the semicolon is there. It appears in every case where I have something in the English comments box and the display is English->Arabic. I hope you can make it work; when traveling it's very handy to be able to review vocabulary on the handheld rather than lugging around flashcards.

Hi Bettona

How u r doing?

you said you have placed the list of the words, in the user area, I dont get it where I should go to get this list. Can you specify me what you mean by user area. I am new in here, sorry.

I am interested in the whole list you have of 1700 words, can you upload it, please!!!

Do you have some tool for the arabic verb declination or some list also on verbs or something like that, i would be very grateful to you.

shelle

Hi Shelle - it's a good thing I have the user area bookmarked because looking at the LingvoSoft home page I couldn't find it, either. It's www.lingovosoft.com/user-area. You'll find a number of vocabularies to download there, supplied by other users. Mine probably requires a Palm OS operating system. Since my original vocabulary list resides in an Access data base with all vowel marks, it's fairly time-consuming to prepare this data for Excel, from which it goes to a file for loading to a Palm handheld, so it may take me a while to get everything out there. I don't have anything special for verbs, but in this downloadable vocabulary I have tried to indicate the Form of a verb if it's not Form I. There's a new book out - 501 Arabic Verbs. Haven't seen it, but I have the 201 verb edition. That one's not great, but on the Amazon web site the new one looks better. The American University in Cairo has a very good verb program on cd - see Amazon or the University's web site.