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Below is some of the encouraging feedback emailed to us before we installed our guest book. Thanks again everyone!

*** You are magnificent...thanks a lot. This is a big job. Aziz Acar, Turkey, 7 Jan 2002

***Congratulations on your book. I decided to learn Arabic a week ago and was appalled to see how few resources were available on the internet if compared to (as you do in the preface to the book) Chinese or Japanese. So it was great to have found your book online. Frederico Meinberg, Germany, 3 Feb 2002

***Your book it is very complete and detailed. Thanks for your work. Manuel Jiménez, Spain, 2 April 2002

*** This is a very good book to read. Syed Sabir Hussain, Pakistan, 6 April 2002

***This book is great. I enjoyed a lot. Rubem E. Ferreira, Brazil, 8 Apr 2002

***I want to say to all of u thanks........this book is helping me a lot on learning......its great...THANKS! Sulayka Hamed, Spain, 26 April 2002

*** I downloaded the book and I liked it a lot because I've learned a lot of things I didn't know there. Rogerio Castellano, Brazil, 27 April 2002

*** The book is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Janine, France, 2 May 2002

*** This book is excellent. Ismail Saleh, UK, 3 May 2002

*** Congratulation, It's a very good course. Juan Manuel Jadue Jadue, Chile, 7 May 2002

*** Thank you very much for your book. It is very useful. I think I will benefit very much. I want to say to you THANKYOU VERY MUCH for your generosity.Ferhat Demiralp, Turkey, 8 May 2002

*** I want to congratulate you for the present work. I loved the book and I am studying it hard...Congratulations!!!! Leonardo Caldas Vieira, Brazil, 9 May 2002

*** The material you have posted at your site is excellent. You have indeed put in a lot of effort. Ismail Saleh, New Zealand, 9 May 2002

*** I was happy to find your course Syrian Arabic on the internet...Thank you for making the book available to the general public. Ron Passchier, The Netherlands, 10 May 2002

*** Congratulations I think this is a very useful Arabic book for people who visit Syria frequently...Congratulations. Luis Abraham Viveros Abdala, Mexico, 15 May 2002

*** I really appreciate this site and the freely downloadable book! You fill an excellent void...I heard about this site (and book) from a fellow student here at Brigham Young University who told me that all of his (non-native) friends who speak Arabic *really* well have used this book as an integral part of their studies. Congratulations on such an excellent book. Ensha'allah I will gain much from this book as well! Jon Safari, USA, 20 May 2002

*** I was lucky enough to find your website after I did an internet search for Syrian Colloquial Arabic. It looks like this will help me tremendously - thank you for making this available. Nashawati, Melissa, USA, 21 May 2002

*** EXCELLENT!!!!! Leo, China, 1 June 2002

*** Your book is just great!!! Thank you for making available for free. I am a professional translator and a second-year Arabic student...Mexico has a terrible shortage of Arabic language learning materials -- and I don't know of anything similar your book today in Spanish. Héctor Vicencio, Mexico, 8 June 2002

*** Thank you so much for the work you have done, I will recommend it to all my english speaking friends... Wonderfull job! Thank you so much. Malaz Mamoun, France, 15 June 2002

*** Thank you very much. I am studying Arabic and Turkish, but all we can learn during the studies is MSA. This book will really improve my Arabic and when I go to Syria...I will not feel myself lost. Vuksan Zecevic, Yugoslavia, 18 June 2002 *** You are doing a wonderful work with your Syrian Colloquial Arabic. The written material is easy to use and very well done....I feel very happy indeed. Please don't give it up such great work. Congratulations. Sânzio Moreira Barreto, Brazil, 15 Aug 2002

*** Your course of Syrian Arabic is fantastic. My best compliments. It becomes easier to learn spoken Arabic...Thanks. Enrico Cerulli, Italy, 8 Aug 2002

*** I was thrilled to find your online Arabic course. It is the best I have found on the internet and I am working my way through it...Shukran! Emmy Barth, Germany, 27 July 2002

*** I am really grateful. You have contributed a lot to my life. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Aregbesola Kassim Mayowa, 2 July 2002

*** I have been doing some volunteer medical work with the Palestinians and Jordanian Bedouins and have been struggling with Arabic for years.  I have had little luck finding resources for Levantine Arabic in particular.  I want to thank you for making this available.  It is one of the best Arabic learning resources I've come upon and I find it very useful and easy to use.  Thanks, Steve Anderson, 15 Sep 2002

*** Hi, my name is Douglas and I'm from São Paulo city Brazil. Me and my girlfriend Heloisa are learning syrian arabic here at CENTRO CULTURAL ARABE SIRIO (or in english: Syrian Arabic Cultural Center) and here in Brazil arabic souces are very difficult to find out...I wanna thank you for this amazing book, because it'll be very useful for Us! We print 2 books, one for me and one for her and we are using this a lot...A Big thank you from Brazil. Douglas R. Nascimento, 20 Sep 2002

*** I would firstly like to congratulate you on such an excellent book.  Nothing compares to it on the net or elsewhere.  I can speak Syrian arabic to a great extent now, all thanks to your book.  It benifited me greatly before I went to Syria and helped me a lot. Thankyou. M. Zubair, England, 29 Sept 2002

*** I can't express how grateful I am to you for offering a noble service such as this to the public. In the day to come, I will be frequently visiting your website and will definitely learn a lot from your website. Mohd. Tuaha Ahmad Qureshi, 14 Oct 2002

*** Thanks a lot !!!! I am from Belgrade, Serbia. I am studying Arabic and Turkish at the Belgrade University. My MSA is quiet good, but this was the thing that I really needed. THANKS AGAIN!!! Vuksan, Belgrade, 29 Oct 2002

*** I was very surprised and pleased when I found your book on the web. It's really great. The book is very detailed, everything is explained. I watch Arabic satelite programs. I enjoy them very much. I know Arabic fusha, so I have no problems to follow most TV programs. But I am lost when people speak in amiya. If I face problem with fusha, I can solve it easilly - just I need to open grammar book or dictionary. But what to do with amiya: no dictionaries, no books. Actually there are some, but they are usually for beginners. I have book "Lebaneese Arabic" by M. Feghal, but I should say that for those who know fusha such books are not enough. Your book is something diferrent. I am really surprised...I am mostly interested in Levantine Arabic. Thank you once again for the free book on the web. Valdas, Lithuania, 5 Nov 2002

*** I have downloaded your book and tapes and have offered the course to my Church, primarily 1st-3rd generation people of Lebanese, Syrian, Palastinian origin. All I want to know is when does more of your work become available, people cannot get enough of it. Stephen Kouri MD, USA, 8 Nov 2002

*** Thanks!! I no have words ..it's amazing ..too easy, it has changed the concept "complicated" about Arabic... Luis Gutierrez, 8 Nov 2002

*** Since I love Arabic, I'm always trying to find out any new resources all over the world to keep in contact with this wonderful, but difficult, language. One day I was looking at internet and I couldn't believe to find your Syrian Arabic method!! Reading it was like being back in Damascus, listening to Syrian people. I write you for thanking you for your kindness for sharing your big effort with us. I will recommend your method and  I would like to encourage you to continue with a MSA  and an Egyptian Arabic methods as you say, because I agree with you there are few good methods for learning Arabic...Congratulations from Spain!!! Joana Hernández, Spain, 17 Nov 2002

*** Great work !! Your book is absolutely the best I have come across in the last years!! Thank you and please go on!! My country is Spain but I live in Germany, Ignacio Gutierrez-Canas 22 Nov 2002