Delivery Method: Online scheduled sessions.

This course is aimed at absolute beginners and will introduce students to the Arabic language and culture while developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Course Description

This course is aimed at absolute beginners and will introduce students to the Arabic language and culture while 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:

• Introduce self and others
• Describe members of the family
• Ask questions
• Tell the time
• Give basic directions
• Describe places
• Describe people and the human body
• Shapes and colours
• Counting
• Everyday expressions of the Arabic language and cultural aspects of the Arabic world