Excerpt from Colloquial Arabic: With Notes on the Vernacular Speech of Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia, and an Appendix on the Local Characteristics of Algerian Dialect Prepositions, nouns used as prepositions, con junctions, conditional sentences, sentences expressing purpose, manner of translating some of the commoner English prepositions. Appendix I. Conversation (i) Ordinary Courtesies. (ii) In a hotel or restaurant. (iii) In a shop. (iv) Military. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.