ARAB.SP22

This course of Intensive Second Year Arabic is designed for students who have already completed Intensive first semester Second Year Arabic. We will continue learning, through the communicative method and audio/visual material to listen to, speak, read and write Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Arabic shared by educated people of the Arabic Speaking World. Classroom time is mainly devoted to activating the material students already prepared through conversation, discussions, short writing activities and grammar drills. The class will be regularly introduced to authentic cultural materials derived from a variety of the living contexts of the more than 300 million Arabic-speaking people. The aim is to advance students to a higher level of the language and proficiency.
The main textbook we will be using during this semester came originally with its own DVD’s, now with a website companion, which will help you continue to develop your listening and pronunciation skills, and will immensely help you in your studies and with your homework. The DVD’s/Website have video segments that are meant to supplement the textbook. Closely studying the content of the audio and video material and trying to reproduce them will help you acquire more vocabulary and expression.
No language can be studied in a vacuum. It has to be tied to the culture that utilizes it. Arabic is spoken in over twenty African and Asian countries. Even though the written language is standardized, mainly because of the Qur’ân, the spoken dialects vary from one country to another and even from one region to another within the same country. Therefore, the main aim is to reach the advanced level in MSA; later, you can select other dialects to suit your needs, especially as you travel overseas.