Beginner A1
Learning Outcomes
This level concentrates on:
- Learning the Arabic alphabet
- Understanding the basics of listening, reading, and writing simple sentences
- Learning basic vocabulary words and common phrases
- Developing the ability to communicate common personal information such as introducing one’s self, family, and occupation.
- Exposing the student to fundamental grammar rules through written texts
- Topics pertaining to daily life
- Introducing one’s self, education, field of study, and languages spoken
- Introducing one’s family, friends, and their occupation
- Studying daily routines, time, types of fruits, vegetables, and how to prepare food
- Being able to describe one’s home, life within it, and giving directions
- Exposing the student to common grammar rules through written texts
Intermediate B1
Learning Outcomes
This level concentrates on developing the skill to:
- Describe one’s memories, daily life in detail and past events
- Describe the places that surround those memories and events
- Describe one’s travels and daily activities
- Compare simple things and plan for them
- Discuss topics related to weather, shopping, colors, and clothing
- Discuss topics related to health and sickness
- Read about the lives of scholars
- Utilize the Arabic dictionary
- Understand common grammar rules through written text
- Studying topics pertaining to scholarly figures, education systems, historic schools of knowledge, and psychology
- Studying descriptions of historical places, ancient hospitals, special occasions, and parties
- Developing comfort in narrating stories in past, present and future tenses
- Studying Arabic grammar rules as they pertain to these topics
- Studying topics pertaining to modern art
- Studying selected topics in journalism, world news, and technology
- Studying historical journeys
- Being able to list, describe and compare between selected topics and ideas.
- Studying Arabic grammar rules as they pertain to these studies
Advanced C1
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Demonstrate complex written social correspondence and daily situational conversation in Arabic to an upper intermediate to an advanced level.
- Critically analyze the differences between the main ideas and subsidiary ideas in Arabic texts.
- Demonstrate use of a good range of Arabic grammar forms and vocabulary in writing and speaking to an upper intermediate level.
- Initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations in Arabic.
- Demonstrate an upper intermediate to an advanced comprehension of the Arabic language presented in a variety of audiovisual sources.
- Demonstrate refined and advanced oral skills in real Arabic speaking situations.
- Tackle topics pertaining to society, modern stories, education, and more.
