Reddit mentions of Mastering Arabic 1 with 2 Audio CDs, Third Edition

Let me gather up the links for the materials I've found, this will be for Darija and MSA.
I'll edit when I've gathered them all, it might take a little bit though.

EDIT:

A-okay! I probably missed a few links (and probably double linked stuff) and this post is probably going to look like a mess, but that's okay, because I can always go back and fix stuff. : )
I’ll be linking stuff either to websites, to books (as you requested) that you can buy through Amazon, or to other stuff that I've found.

Just to get it out of the way, if you’re into pirating, then there’s this massive learning pack you can download.

Master posts:

• https://sites.google.com/site/soyouwanttolearnalanguage/languagee-books
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28general.2Fmsa.29
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28maghrebi.29
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28levantine.29
  
  Anyway, for MSA, Alif Baa is typically the book most learners start off with in order to learn the alphabet. In this book it covers MSA, and the Levantine and Egyptian dialects and it comes with a DVD/audio.
  
  There’s also this book for the alphabet too The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It
  
  As another poster has already brought up, there’s the Al-Kitaab series with Part 2 here. Not self-teaching friendly at all.
  
  There’s also:
  
  
• Ahlan Wa Sahlan
  
  
• Mastering Arabic 1
  
  
• New Arabic Grammar
  
  
• Easy Arabic Grammar
  
  
• Pimsleur
  
  
• Al Mawrid Dictionary English-Arabic and Arabic-English
  
  
• Assimil
  
  
• Teach Yourself Arabic
  
  
• Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News
  
  And here’s some more link vomit:
  
  
• http://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/arabic.html
  
  
• http://hs2.lingnet.org/msa.html
  
  
• http://www.madinaharabic.com/
  
  
• http://learn.arabiconline.eu/
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/project/fsi/Arabic/#ModernStandardArabic
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/dli-arabic-course.php
  
  
• https://quizlet.com/LetsTalkArabic
  
  
• http://allthearabicyouneverlearnedthefirsttimearound.com/
  
  
• http://allthearabicyouneverlearnedthefirsttimearound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-The-Arabic-Searchable-PDF.pdf
  
  
• http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/aww/coursecontent.html - based off of Al-Kitaab
  
  
• http://www.lqtoronto.com/downloads.html
  
  
• http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/arabic/index.html
  
  Youtube:
  
  
• Learn Arabic with Maha
  
  
• Language Transfer Introduction to Arabic
  
  
  For Darija, it’s really difficult to find resources for compared to other dialects, but here are some that I’ve found over time.
  
  Books:
  
  
• Shnoo the Hell is Going On H'naa?
  
  
• An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture
  
  
• Verb Dictionary
  
  
• A Short Reference Grammar of Moroccan Arabic
  
  Links:
  
  
• http://www.speakmoroccan.com/
  
  
• http://friendsofmorocco.org/arabictoc.htm
  
  
• http://www.hellodarija.com/
  
  
• http://mylanguages.org/learn_moroccan.php
  
  
• http://www.dalilusa.com/arabic_course/moroccan_arabic_lessons.asp
  
  
• http://www.linguanaut.com/moroccan.htm
  
  
• http://hs2.lingnet.org/moroccan.html
  
  
• http://www.loecsen.com/travel/0-en-67-2-62-free-lessons-arabic-moroccan.html
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/peace-corps-moroccan-arabic-course.php
  
  
• http://www.talkinarabic.com/moroccan-dialect-main/
  
  
• http://www.armchairarabist.blogspot.com/p/learn-moroccan-arabic.html
  
  Youtube:
  
  
• ArabicPod has some darija lessons
  
  
• Learn darija
  
  
• hello darija
  
  Other:
  
  There’s also this in person course in Rabat that many people have spoken highly of.

For MSA I used Mastering Arabic and it was great; very fun to read and kept me motivated throughout.

Mastering Arabic 1 with 2 Audio CDs: Third Edition (Arabic Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0781813387/

For Levantine Arabic I have these two recommendations, but both are more advanced and expect an existing understanding of Arabic.

Living Arabic: A Comprehensive Introductory Course (Arabic and English Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0974484342/

Colloquial Palestinian Arabic: An Introduction to the Spoken Dialect (Arabic Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982159536/

Can recommend this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Arabic-Audio-CDs-Third/dp/0781813387/

Yeah I was really disappointed that Duolingo had Klingon and High Valyrian but no Arabic. I was debating between Drops and Memrise. Drops is only like 5 minutes daily and was primarily words whereas Memrise started with the actual symbols themselves. Aside from those I really wasn't sure.

I live about 2 hours from Dearborn, Michigan and our little down has a high population density with most of them being from Yemen which has its own dialect being Yemeni Arabic which is used primarily in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. This was the other resource that I found that I was hoping to buy in a couple weeks as a self Christmas present if I can get the money saved up for it https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Arabic-Audio-CDs-Third/dp/0781813387/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1541741749&sr=8-7&keywords=arabic

A lot of people would tell you Al-Kitaab and I don't want to discourage you from buying it but honestly the book is so AWFUL. The dialogues in it are not written out, you have to guess what they are saying, you have to pay extra for the online content and it expires making you re-buy it, the grammar explanations are really really bad. It made easy things like Idafa seem extremely confusing. Please look at all the horrible reviews for alkitaab on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Al-Kitaab-fii-taallum-al-Arabiyya-Arabic/product-reviews/1589017366/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt_rgt?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=critical&showViewpoints=0&pageNumber=1
If you are jumping right into Al-Kitaab it won't teach you the alphabet.

It is so bad, in my classes we are on the second book now and I honestly want to burn it. The best book I have used so far is Mastering Arabic by Jane Wightwick. You can find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Arabic-Audio-CDs-Third/dp/0781813387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466799605&sr=8-1&keywords=Mastering+Arabic

You can buy a workbook for it as well, in general it has more exercises and explains things better, and it has tons of audio. I'd also recommend Living Language Arabic. But Al-Kitaab is just so frustrating and so bad. I hate that this book is the standard for colleges. I think it is the reason why so few people finish Arabic in college.