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Arabic Foundations Part 1

Course ID: FLI-3719A3
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Lay a strong foundation in Modern Standard Arabic with this engaging and interactive beginner's course! You'll develop essential skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening while building a solid understanding of grammar and vocabulary. Along the way, you'll also explore key aspects of Arabic culture, enhancing your learning experience. This course emphasizes real communication used in daily life, ensuring you gain both confidence and practical language skills from day one.

Course Objectives

demonstrate a basic proficiency level with the writing system of Arabic including letter formation, joining letters, and writing from right to left.

be able to respond appropriately to simple reading and listening passages.

demonstrate a basic proficiency level with Arabic pronunciation.

demonstrate a basic knowledge of Arabic in a variety of class activities such as answering questions, having basic conversations with classmates, and responding to the instructor's verbal commands in Arabic.

Outline of Instruction

Letters of the alphabet, vowels, joining letters, the culture and language of greetings.

Long vs. short vowels, the letter "alif," simple sentences, self-introduction, language differentiation for male and female.

Masculine vs. feminine nouns, identifying things and people (This is...), vocabulary to identify members of the family, talking about where you live,

Arabic/English cognates, vocabulary to identify jobs, talking about what you do for a living, making words plural, talking about where you work or study.

Vocabulary for everyday objects, words used to describe possession, polite requests, adjectives.

Asking questions, describing a room, reading a short passage and answering questions.

Describing places, listening to a passage and answering questions, asking for directions,

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