From this point on, the average-to-good student should be encouraged to read rapidly through at least one of the several small standard manuals of Arabic grammar, for example by A. S. Tritton (the best, despite eccentricities and grave pedagogical faults); D. Cowan; F. J. Ziadeh and R. B. Winder (good tables); J. A. Haywood and H. M. Nahmad (overburdened with detail and has some rather bad errors); or G. C. Scott (sensible and generally reliable). For the advanced student of Classical Arabic, W. Wright's grammar is of course essential. Again the average-to-good student can get along with J. G. Hava's Dictionary for immediate and general purposes; but for Modern Arabic in particular that of H. Wehr is indispensable (either in the original German or in the English adaptation). Likewise, the monumental (and expensive) works of E. W. Lane and R. Dozy remain essential (though inadequate) for work on the full range of “Classical” Arabic. Various other dictionaries are forthcoming. Several “readers” are obtainable, both in the Classical and the Modern “areas”, but they are all subject to faults of varying degrees, and the student will find any attempt to read alone hard work indeed – not least because of the vast extent of unfamiliar, non-linguistic context. (There is no question but that a teacher and guide is virtually essential to the first three or more years of Arabic studies!)

Appended after Texts and Analyses (p. 151) are:

(a) Some fifty English type-sentences for putting into Arabic near the end of the course.