This course is designed for students who have already completed Level 1 Arabic. This is a continuation course towards achieving proficiency, at the beginning level, in listening, speaking, reading and writing of Modern Standard Arabic. The students will pick up the development of their language skills from where they finished during the previous semester. The learners will be moving with their learning at a more accelerated pace and will be dealing with more complex linguistic issues and lengthier texts. Expanding students’ vocabulary repertoire will naturally go hand in hand with improving on the four linguistic skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking.
The students will continue to systematically listen to recorded texts, reading written productions of these texts, learning specific basic vocabulary and building up an additional vocabulary repertoire of about 500-600 words. Basic grammatical rules related to nouns, verbs and particles will be learned, not as an end in themselves, but as a necessary tool to understanding how the language works.