Arabic course for complete beginners

Course details

This Arabic for complete beginners course is designed for complete beginners who are travelling to an Arabic-speaking country.

The focus is on oral communication (oral and aural skills) and

the students will cover the following practical "survival skills":

• Greetings – Introducing yourself, your friends and your family
• Talking about yourself, your job, tastes and hobbies
• Travelling
• Booking a hotel and checking in
• Booking a table – Eating and drinking out
• Asking for and understanding directions
• Going shopping
• Complaining and apologising
• Elements of cultural awareness

Course Objectives

• This is a summary of the objectives for this Arabic course for complete beginners.

Sociolinguistic Appropriateness

• To be able to establish basic social contact by using the simplest everyday polite forms of greetings, farewells, introductions, saying please, thank you, sorry etc.

Listening Comprehension (LC)

• To be able to follow speech that is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.

Reading Comprehension (RC)

• To be able to understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.

Spoken Interaction (SI)

To be able to interact in a simple way but communication is totally dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing and repair.

Spoken Production (SP)

• To be able to produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.

Written Interaction (WI)

• To be able to ask for or pass on personal details in written form.

Written Production (WP)

• To be able to write simple phrases and sentences about themselves and imaginary people, where they live and what they do.