Arabic Colloquial Proficiency Levels: 1-4

Course details

Major topics covered in the course are greetings; courtesy expressions; geography; counting; telling time; food; clothing; shopping; banking; travel; weather; health; professions; and personal, family, and home life.

Focus is on colloquial Levantine Arabic of a general social nature.

Level 1: Knowledge of Arabic is sufficient to communicate in a very limited way, with the simplest oral and listening tasks and situations.

Level 2: At this level, the users have a basic command of the language needed in a limited range of simple, routine, and familiar tasks and situations.

Level 3: Users can handle most uncomplicated communicative tasks and routine social and work situations. They can follow the general meaning of a conversation about familiar subjects.

Level 4: At this level, users are able to refashion and combine learned material to meet their immediate communication and learning needs. They are able to comprehend information on familiar topics in contextualized settings and produce sustained conversation with others on an expanding variety of general topics.