As part of a new Arabic language textbook program that uses integrated audio-visual media to teach modern Arabic, this text develops skills in standard Arabic, while providing some material in colloquial and classical Arabic. It covers some 150 contact hours of college-level instruction. Companion audio- and videocassettes are available. Part 2 books and cassettes will be available Summer 1996 in a preliminary edition. Teachers manuals will be available in late 1997 or early 1998. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.