Second-Year Arabic

Second-Year Arabic
Significantly expanding proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic and increasing conversational repertoire.
ARAB
201
 Hours4.0 Credit, 5.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab
 PrerequisitesArab 102 or equivalent experience.
 TaughtFall, Spring
 ProgramsContaining ARAB 201
Course Outcomes

Speaking

Speak Colloquial Arabic at the ACTFL intermediate low level. Show an elementary ability to distinguish between Colloquial and Standard Arabic in word choice and pronunciation.

Reading

Read and understand simple written Standard Arabic texts at the ACTFL intermediate low level.

Listening

Understand spoken conversations and dialogues in Standard and Colloquial Arabic at the ACTFL intermediate low level.

Foundational Structures

Show a mastery of basic verb conjugations, idaafa, and other basic structures, with some familiarity with more advanced structures (passive, active and passive participles, relative clauses, diptotes and other vowelling issues).