Hakini Arabi: Palestinian and Jordanian Colloquial for Beginners

I took Fus’Ha for two years almost seven years ago with one of the book’s authors, so my Arabic has been pretty rusty. I had no desire to go back to it (can’t stand all the grammar rules that no-one on “the street” uses…), so I was pleasantly surprised when I learned of the existence of Hakini Arabi. While I only recently purchased it, I find it very easy to use. The transliteration at the beginning of the book is a good reminder of how to pronounce certain letters and words, and I really enjoy learning about culture (in this case Palestinian), as one should when learning a language (I remember how my teacher intertwined language with history, culture, and religion in class, which this book does as well). I can understand how frustrating it would be to study this book without the audio recordings, so I contacted my former teacher and received the link to all the chapters, which can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1oeehmo0twqunc7/AADEtj63X0stmHqcSDNUqRaSa?dl=0.

Very good textbook with a lot of audio material.A translation of the dialogues and, most of all, the key to the drills would have made it EXCELLENT.Any chance the authors may consider publishing them online? :)))))

Ok so I already have intermediate level Arabic and I'm familiarly with words but this book doesn't have the short vowels on the Arabic words to aid pronunciation- no big deal seeing as how there is meant to be audio with it to help (in fact there are recordings for just about everything in the book). The catch is there is no CD included and no reference in the book about websites where you can find the audio. A searching google also provides you with no clue as to where to find the audio recordings that are advertised on the cover of the book and are an integral part of the course. Trying to pick up a new dialect minus any listening material is a difficult task and advertising "with audio" and then not actually providing any audio is ridiculous. Unless you have a teacher who talks in this dialect and can help you, where the lack of audio is an issue, then I wouldn't bothered buying it.