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Mag. Dr. Adel El Sayed Mag. Dr. Adel El Sayed

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Arabic Basic Level I

UE 2

2,5

weekly

each semester

Arabic

Prerequisites: none

Goal: At this level the Learner can introduce himself/herself and others and answer questions about personal details; he/she can interact in a simple way provided the interlocutor speaks clearly and slowly and is prepared to help. Introduction to Arabic alphabet

Topics:
the area of Arabic-Islamic culture; greeting and saying goodbye; travelling; the weather; your circle of friends/visitors; numbers; money/currency; shopping/at the market

Linguistic Goals:
to recognize/link/pronounce Arabic letters/graphemes; to introduce yourself; to ask people about their family/where they live/come from; to ask for information on a place; to orient yourself in a town; to inform others about your profession/the weather; to describe people and objects

Structural Goals:
Arabic letters/graphemes; pronunciation; nouns; sifat (adjective) - to describe a person or an object in some detail; ziruf (adverb) - to characterize something; personal pronouns; personal suffixes - to indicate possession; simple prepositions; questions; tasrif (introduction to the present tense conjugation) - to express actions in the immediate present; Arabic-Hindi numbers

interactive language instruction

written and oral mid term test (testing of listening comprehension, Arabic letters and speaking) and final test (testing of writing, listening and reading comprehension and speaking/dialogues)

own material and copies of the followig books: Ahmed Bu Kamach. Iqra. Teil 1, Tanger; N. Osman, Lehrbuch für modernes Arabisch. Bd. 1, München 1996; G. Krahl, W. Reuschel, E. Schulz. Lehrbuch des modernen Arabisch. Leipzig, Berlin, München 1995 (Langenscheidt Verlag); W. Fischer/ O. Jastrow. Lehrgang für die moderne Schriftsprache der Gegenwart. vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1996

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02.03.2015