Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub PEL.6.01

• No previous knowledge of Arabic.
• Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
• Students should dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.

Course aims

• To develop the use  of Arabic at survival level.
• To raise awareness about the two Arabic varieties (formal and colloquial).
• To learn the Arabic writing system.
• To introduce students to a major dialect of Arabic.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• To bring the students to level A1- of Common European Framework.

Communicative content

• Greetings
• Asking for and giving personal information
• Talking about your immediate family
• Talking about studies and jobs
• Talking about your city and country
• Talking about present actions
• Talking about hobbies

Structural content

• Alphabet
• Joining letters
• Pronunciation
• Feminine and masculine words
• Roots
• Present tense
• The definitive article
• Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
• Nouns-adjective phrases
• Numbers 0 to 100
• Plural
• Dual
• Word order
• Demonstrative: this (masc./fem.)
• Possessive pronouns
• Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
• Prepositions: in, between, etc
• Countries, nationality (nisba) and languages
• Idafa (genitive construction)
• Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."
• Use of some adverbs: a lot, a bit, well, etc.

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

• This is a 40 hour-course.
• Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Students will be provided with a study pack.

Other useful materials

• Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic, Letters and Sounds by Brustad et all. Georgetown Univ. Press, Second or Third Editions
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
• Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part 1). An introductiory course in Arabic by Munther Younes, Routledge, 2014
• Mastering Arabic Grammar, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018

Continuous assessment (70%) in the AT and WT.
Oral examination (30%) in the WT.