Delivery Method: Face-to-face: Scheduled sessions.

Venue: C48 Hugh Owen, Penglais Campus.

This course is aimed at students who have attended Arabic Beginners 1 or similar or have some very basic knowledge of Arabic. It will provide students with a good introductory command of Arabic, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Course Description

This course is aimed at students who have attended Arabic Beginners 1 or similar or have some very basic knowledge of Arabic. It will provide students with a good introductory command of Arabic, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

The module will equip students with a very basic knowledge of the countries where Arabic is spoken and encourage their curiosity about the language, the country, the people, their environment, society, traditions and culture. It will enable the student to reach a level of very basic competence in the four main areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The student will acquire basic language skills, to enable students to:

• Talk about their interests.
• Go shopping.
• Talk about family and relatives.
• Talk about weather.
• Know the seasons.
• Tell the time.
• Everyday expressions of the Arabic Language and cultural aspects of the Arabic world emerging from all of the above points.