Arabic beginners:
- The Arabic alphabet
- Joining letters
- Pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Present tense
- Greetings
- General questions (oral)
- Male and female forms
Arabic intermediate 1:
- Revision of above
- Numbers
- Plurals
- Past tense
- Future tense
- Adjectives
- Possessive construction (idafa)
- Time
- Dates
- Days of the week
- Everyday conversation
Arabic intermediate 2:
- Comparative and superlative
- Conditionals
- Directions
- Letter writing
- Presenting one's self
- Writing about one's country or city
- Common terms
- Translation Arabic to English/English to Arabic
- Preparing a recipe
- Describing one's house
- Advanced conversation
Arabic advanced
(All the above, plus continuation of University Arabic course curriculum)
- Proverbs
- Translating songs
- Translating film and television
- Political terms
- Introduction to a colloquial Arabic dialect agreed by the class (eg Syrian
this semester)