References http://arabizi.wordpress.com/ . Some of these books dubbed as ‘for children’ use such advanced Arabic, and their topics are not written with children in mind- so how can we expect children to read them? Having said that, I did see a change in this habit at the book fair, I skimmed through books that were fun, interesting and ‘child-centered’. In addition to it I saw books written with all vowel and case markings (this means that the Arabic letters are accompanied by small marks to tell the reader how to pronounce the letters), this helps the child in reading correctly whilst enjoying the story. I think that when this is achieved by all publishers, then children will not find it difficult to pick up a book in Arabic and read it with pleasure

I was informed that some government departs were helping their employees (Emiratis and other Arabic speaking workers) to improve their Arabic. They call the series ‘قل و لا تقل’ which roughly translates as ‘Say, and don’t say’ something like: say this….but do not say this because it is wrong. This title is popular and there is a TV series that has the same title, the format is that each show has a theme, each week the presenter shows examples of how people misuse words or phrases and then shows the correct usage. It is all in classical Arabic and aims to improve the use of words amongst native speakers who have along the way picked up bad habits in their language use.

“Arabic books are boring, and hard to read. They are just too preachy,” was the consensus.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37869835/%E2%80%9CArabizi%E2%80%9D-A-Contemporary-Style-of-Arabic-slang
“Arabizi” is a slang term (slang: vernacular, popular informal speech) describing a system of writing Arabic using English charac-ters. This term comes from two words “arabi” (Arabic) and “engliszi”
(English). The actual word would be “3rabizi” if represented in its own system, but due to the possible unfamiliarity of the reader withthe system, it would be hard to pronounce the word. Thus “Arabizi”and not “3rabizi” will be used throughout this paper. Arabizi is a text messaging system used over the Net and cellular phones.