Course Details

Overview of the course

The narration in our Arabic lessons is mostly in Arabic because of our strong belief that any foreign language must be taught in that particular language. As for the terminology used, we adopted both English and Arabic Terms used in the Arab world and in the West. We did not limit our Arabic lessons to what is considered as the STANDARD practice in the field.

Learning Outcome

• Exchange greetings and introduce themselves
• Answer questions dealing with daily routines
• Form simple sentences in both spoken and written Arabic
• Identify the main ideas in spoken Arabic regarding familiar topics

Who needs the Program?

This Arabic course is designed for non-native students who are eager to learn Arabic outside of a traditional classroom, restricted location, and pre-set schedule.

Detailed Course Content

Much of time is devoted to oral dialogues and conversations about how basic interactions are run. In this respect, the course will cover different issues related to daily life such as: Greetings, introducing one self and others, presenting family members, describing things and people, directions and locations in terms of space (as in the street), bargaining and ordering (in the market, café, restaurant…etc.), weather, schedules (daily or weekly activities: permanent events), hobbies, narration and the like.

We also place much importance on the grammatical and structural aspects of the language, where the learners will cover tenses (present, past and future) mainly using regular verbs, sentence structure (noun sentence and verb sentence) and some cohesive devices. The focus is also on the writing and reading, for a better mastery of script and pronunciation. To reach such a goal, we will start focusing on, correct articulation and pronunciation of sounds, assimilating the letter positions to combine them into words and therefore acquire a set of very useful vocabulary items, forming meaningful sentences and ending by writing and reading simple texts related to the above mentioned conversational situations.