Arabic

Arabic Levels

Please see an approximate list of topics below.  There is a focus on developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in addition to learning grammar.  Vocabulary building is approached from a number of angles.

Arabic Beginners A

• Introduction of the language
• Arabic alphabet
• learning tanvin, shadda, and sun and moon letters. 
• greet others.
• Numbers (1-10)
• Occupation
• definite and indefinite nouns,
• feminine and masculine,
• some cultural topics

Arabic Beginners B

• singular, dual and plural forms,
• yes/no questions,
• subject pronoun,
• Conjugation past and present tenses just for a few pronouns.
• Attached pronouns
• adjectives and nouns agreement.
• some cultural topics

Arabic Beginners C

• introductions
• make requests and describe things.
• verbal and nominal sentences,
• some WH (information) questions,
• demonstratives,
• nisba adjectives

Arabic Beginners D

• some prepositions and positional words
• complete past and present tense.
• making verbs in negation forms
• name colors, seasons, , some animals and objects.
• simple texts and doing puzzles and games.
• begin to improve their reading skills by reading children stories and different texts.

Arabic Intermediate A

• basic conversations about a range of everyday activities.
• read and write more complex sentences a
• name some clothes, parts of the body, relatives, places and foods.
• adverbs,
• complete WH questions,

Arabic Intermediate B

• future tense and its negative form
• comparative and superlative adjectives,
• broken plural, and collective nouns.
• complete prepositions,
• Conversational proficiency continues to be emphasized.

Arabic Intermediate C

• In this level, students will build a strong foundation through practice and review of all previous lessons.
• They will learn to predict the meaning of unfamiliar words based on their context and continue to improve their speaking and listening skills.
• subject-verb agreement,
• direct and indirect objects,

Arabic Intermediate D

• quantifiers,
• the imperative.
• Past continuous