A basic Course in Gulf Arabic is a language course based on the dialect of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. as modified by the dialects of Bahrain and Qatar. It ... comprises forty-two lessons with a vocabulary of about 1,400 items selected from a frequency word list which had been compiled from spontaneous conversations of unsophisticated Gulf Arabs. The dialogs cover a wide variety of subjects of interest: greeting, getting acquainted, directions, shopping, banking, mailing letters, etc. A typical lesson contains: -A dialog or narrative built around a single topic of interest, -vocabulary items in the dialog or narrative, -additional vocabulary items, -notes on pronunciation featuring difficult sounds, -new grammatical points, and -drills providing practice in using the items in each lesson. The book provides the student with a basic conversational tool in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.