Basic Plan (This Plan Covers Arabic Lessons for Beginners to Upper-Intermediate)
Beginner
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 1, from: unit 1 to: unit 5 / AlKitab P1
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Arabic for Beginners Outcomes:
Firstly, using a variety of classroom activities during Arabic lessons for beginners, this course will enable you to build up the basic skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking as well as developing language acquisition skills. Secondly, grammar in Arabic lessons for beginners is not presented explicitly at this stage. Though, there are little grammatical points to be taught in this level on the level of the phrase.
In general, students will be able to communicate orally, and in writing in a few survival situations such as:
- Introduce oneself.
- Exchange greetings.
- Learn Arabic names.
- Ask about people’s nationalities.
- Ask about familiar objects.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book1, from: unit 6 to: unit 8 / AlKitab P1
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Arabic for Beginners Outcomes:
This level covers Arabic lessons for beginners that aim to enhance the understanding and production, both written and spoken, of different patterns of nominal sentences, present tense of verbs conjugated with single pronouns, negation of nominal and verbal sentences and useful basic vocabulary. Further, texts in these Arabic lessons for beginners are about personal information, surrounding environment and daily routine.
Arabic lessons for beginners’ Students will be able to understand & use familiar every day expressions & communicate in a simple way in:
- Asking about personal belongings.
- Asking about addresses.
- Asking about date & time.
- Reading business cards.
- Describing addresses and directions.
- Talking about routine habits.
- Asking about family members & what they do for work.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi bishweesh – Published Book 1 – Modules (1 – 10)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab.
- Extra authentic materials.
Arabic Lessons for Beginners Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
After doing these Arabic lessons for beginners and by the end of this course you will be able to:
- Greet others and introduce one-self.
- Ask who people are, and where they are from.
- Ask for classroom objects and common office objects.
- Ask about personal objects.
- Exchange information about personal information: address, telephone numbers.
- Ask about and tell the time.
- Shop for food and groceries and deal with prices and money.
- Ask about place of some objects.
- Get and give directions about addresses and places.
- Ask about facilities and services in a hotel.
- Exchange information about different habits and daily routine actions and activities.
- Exchange information about jobs and working places.
- Offer food and help guests.
- Give excuses.
- Get services: in the restaurant, order food, taxis and train reservations.
- Read and write simple phrases while learning Arabic for beginners.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic lessons for beginners course you will:
- Recognize and pronounce sun and moon letters.
- Use pronominal suffixes (subject pronouns and attached pronouns).
- Use interrogation to ask people about themselves, objects, places, time and prices.
- Use demonstrative to identify objects.
- Use prepositions to identify objects’ places.
- Use verb conjugation for daily routine verbs with first, second and third persons.
- Use nominal sentences and the negation of nominal sentences in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi – Published Book 2 – Modules (1 – 5)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Arabic Lessons for Beginners Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
After doing these Arabic lessons for beginners and by the end of this course you will be able to:
- Exchange information about nationalities and city of origin.
- Read maps to specify country locations.
- Ask about telephone numbers, addresses, age, family income and salaries.
- Introduce one’s job; ask about occupations and places of work.
- Ask about family members and their jobs.
- Ask about places and directions in detail.
- Express distance and duration.
- Ask about detailed address and get to know the area around.
- Talk about daily and weekend routine and habits.
- Order drinks in the coffee shop.
- Shop for clothes and use money language.
- Talk about future plans.
- Exchange information about apartments and rooms.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will:
- Use different articles with singular, dual and plural nouns in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
- Use pronominal suffixes and possessive pronouns to identify objects and family members.
- Use attached pronouns with prepositions.
- Use singular, dual, plural nouns and articles.
- Use possessive articles.
- Use verb conjugation for daily routine verbs with all the persons.
- Use basic imperatives and pronominal suffixes for ordering and giving instructions.
- Use active participle and subjunctive (عايز + فعل مضارع) for future planning (affirmative and negative).
Elementary
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 2, from: unit 1 to: unit 4 / AlKitab P1
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
The level covers Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and deals with all essential morphological rules related to verb conjunction, such as weak roots and the ten forms of Arabic verbs as well as sentence structures. Also, it introduces past tense with singular pronouns. In addition, all grammar and morphology presentations are contextualized in relevant situations which expand the basic lexicon. Moreover, texts of these Arabic lessons for beginners and elementary level, are about physical description of people and places, education, and employment.
Students will be able to communicate in simple way, and can exchange information in familiar matters such as:
- Describing people & places.
- Talking about family.
- Expressing ownerships.
- Reading and understanding short paragraphs.
- Describing incidences & parties & talking about future plans.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 2, from: unit 5 to: unit 8 / AlKitab P1
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr,Hans.A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes for Early Elementary Modern Standard Arabic:
This level covers Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and prepares the participant with essential newspaper expressions and vocabulary. Firstly, this level expands on the morphological aspects of vocabulary. “Masdars”, reported statements, conjunctions, and complex sentences. Secondly, it completes the past tense and introduces the future tense and imperative forms of the verb. Hence, this will enable students to understand and use them in meaningful contexts. Finally, Arabic lessons for beginners and elementary level texts are short and simple.
Students will be able to describe in simple way aspects of his/her background & immediate environment such as:
- Narrating past events & news.
- Narrating and writing short stories.
- Expressing personal hobbies.
- Writing letters and messages.
- Expressing abilities.
- Reading & writing instructions.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi – Published Book 2 — Modules (6-10)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to:
- Talk about the weather and seasons of the year.
- Make suggestions or plans, offers and invitation.
- Talk about hobbies.
- Talk about the frequency of doing things.
- Describe people and their physical appearance.
- Make requests and give instructions in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
- Warn, give advice and remind.
- Speak about future plan.
- Exchange information about past events and past situations.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will:
- Use (ياللا / تيجي + فعل مضارع) to propose projects and plans.
- Use auxiliary verbs + subjunctive to express like and dislike things (بيحب + فعل مضارع).
- Use imperfect verbs (habits) and adverbs of time and frequency to express how often you do things (دايما – غالبا – أحيانا – خالص ……).
- Use “should and ought to” + subjunctive (affirmative and negative) to express necessities and obligations (لازم / المفروض + فعل مضارع).
- Use imperative verb form to give orders to employee, taxi drivers, workers …..etc.
- Use “Can and Able and know” + subjunctive to talk about activities and hobbies (يقدر / يعرف + فعل مضارع).
- Use future tense to express future plans.
- Use past tense to express past events and situations.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi Aktar- Published Book3, Modules 1 – 4
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to:
- Exchange information about biographies.
- Exchange information about past personal experiences.
- Initiate a conversation with a new friend.
- Describe scenes, cities & places.
- Compare between different work places, living places.
- Compare between different occasions.
- Exchange information about habits in the past (used to do..).
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will:
- Use connectors to produce compound sentences.
- Use the past tense- conjugated with all pronouns in expressing past events.
- Use active participles to describe status.
- Use possessive forms.
- Use adverbs of place.
- Use Noun- Adjective agreement correctly.
- Use comparatives & superlatives.
- Use Nominal sentences in the past.
- Use past continuous tense.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials
- Kallimni Arabi Aktar- Published Book3 — Modules (5-8)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to:
- Talk about changes between past and present in cities, lifestyle, habits and traditions.
- Offer, accept, turn down, or postpone invitations.
- Report what people said.
- Ask for help with specific tasks.
- Exchange news and stories.
- Make complaints and apologies.
- Identify problems and suggest solutions.
- Exchange information about accomplishments.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will:
- Use Nominal and verbal sentences to compare between past and present.
- Use reported speech.
- Use multiple attached pronouns (ساعدني – صلح لي– صلحهالي).
- Use active participle to express future (رايح – مسافر – راجع).
- Use (ما) in different function eg. negation, affirmation, and prohibition.
- Use (لسه) by meaning of “ Still” and “Not yet” to talk about accomplishment, events and recent past in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
Intermediate Arabic
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 3, from: unit 1 to: unit 3 presentation a / AlKitab P1
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
This level in intermediate Arabic course gives more details of sentence formation, compound and complex sentences and related syntax, i.e. connectors, clauses, and accusatives. In fact, it expands more on morphology as active and passive voices, other ways for past tense, comparison and KANA and its sisters in Modern Standard Arabic. The texts of this level are a bit longer than before and they consist mainly of high frequency self-related or related events.
Students will be able to understand the main points of clear input, and can produce simple connected text on topics such as:
- Describing a sequence of events.
- Changes happened to people and places across the time.
- Accidents & fires, pollution.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 3, from: unit 3 presentation b to: unit 5 /AlKitab P2
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be exposed to different styles of texts with the aim of building a more specialized lexicon and expanding on grammar and morphology taught in previous levels in Modern Standard Arabic.
This level teaches:
- Connectors.
- Passive participle.
- Conditional sentences.
- Diptot and nouns from weak root verbs.
The texts are more descriptive & connected in a way that can describe general events. Students will be able to understand & express situations such as: describing sports events, inventors & their inventions, touristic visit & travels, famous cities.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi Mazboot- Published Book 4 — Modules (1 -4)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
by the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Describe customs and festivals in different countries.
- Talk about hobbies and activities during vacations.
- Express positive and negative opinions.
- Describe emotions.
- Narrate folktales.
- Give reasons and justifications.
- Ask and talk about personal experience.
- Talk about history and historical events.
- Talk about future plans and make hypotheses.
- Talk about hopes and wishes using idiomatic expressions نفسي أحضر الحفلة دي، ياريتني اقدر اروح معاكم .
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use Masdar to express preference in different situations باحب الصيد؛ بيعجبني الخروج بدري،
- Use conjunctions and connectors to: describe a sequence of events, narrate stories, express cause and effect or express time periods.
- Use appropriate tense shifting when talking about personal experiences and narrating events كنت متأكد إنه غالي بس قلت لنفسي هاركب برضه عشان صاحبي هيكون سبقني.
- Use conditional sentences to express probabilities in the future.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi Mazboot- Published Book 4- Modules (5-8)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
by the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Narrate Personal incidents and experiences.
- Express opinions for different experiences.
- Express regrets about past events using idiomatic expressions (ياريتني ماكنت سمعت كلامك).
- Give advices and suggestions.
- Ask and talk about past events that still taking place or actions happening in the present and continue in the future.
- Talk about jobs, the skills and the personal characteristic suitable to them.
- Express opinions about different work life experiences.
Grammar:
By the end of Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use past perfect to express relations between events on the timeline على بال مراتي مابتاخد دش باكون حضرت الفطار.
- Use connectors e.g. (while / until / as soon as / instead of) to express relations between events on the timeline لغاية ماييجي القطر باكون شربت فنجان القهوة بتاعي.
- Use different tenses to express relations between events on the timeline وانا سايق العربية العجلة نامت.
- Use conditionals (لو) to express regret in the past.
- Use auxiliary verbs such as (بقى / فاضل) to talk about time frames and (ناوي) to express future plans فاضل لي شهرين واخلّص.
Upper-Intermediate
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 4 / AlKitab P2
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
This level exposes students of Modern Standard Arabic to new grammatical points concerning all types of adverbs and Tamyeez as well as the ways of assertion and exclamation, using the language of exception, analysis of causes & problems.
In fact, students will be able to comprehend and deal with a wide range of topics, concerned with contemporary problems. The topics cover a variety of areas such as Politics, Economics & sociology such as the contemporary Arab revolution, problems of Media, working women. Students will be able to discuss some situations & problems which arise meanwhile.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 5 /AlKitab P2
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
From this level of Modern Standard Arabic onward, the main focus of the lesson is the text and is related to its type. Firstly, texts will be complicated and detailed. It builds on the previous knowledge of grammar and expands it generally through drills and comprehension tasks. In addition, the grammar of this level is about Relation between verb tense and natural time, hollow verbs, Tamyeez, active and passive participles, passive voice, KAN, possessive cases, place participle, diptot and broken plurals.
Students will be able to interact with a degree of fluency & spontaneity in situations such as:
- Travels & festivals.
- Religious occasions to learn more about Arab culture.
- Press & newspaper development in Arab world.
- Famous Egyptian women.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 5 / AlKitab P2
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Authentic materials based on students’ learning needs survey.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
At this level of Modern Standard Arabic, students are exposed to a variety of texts which enrich their knowledge of sophisticated vocabulary. In fact, the main text type here is narration with its variations from modern to medieval. Students will be able to deal with texts dealing with social, historical, literary, or cultural issues. In addition, there are some authentic reading & listening texts to help comprehension. Moreover, students revise grammar and morphological rules taught in previous levels such as Meanings of the verb forms, adverbs, nouns driven from the weak verbs, exclamation, forms of comparative and superlative nouns.
40 – 50 class hours online course
Course Materials:
- Louis, Samia, Lughatuna al-Fusha book 6, Units 1 and 2 / AlKitab P3
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
- Authentic materials based on students’ learning needs survey.
Learning Outcomes:
At this level of Modern Standard Arabic, students are exposed to a variety of texts which enrich their knowledge of sophisticated vocabulary. In fact, the texts deal with society: tradition and modernity, Islamic movements, family, and children, as well as literature. Students will be able to explain a viewpoint on any of the topics such as Marriage & related problems, Islam & politics. Moreover, they are given the advantages & disadvantages of various options. In addition, students revise grammar and morphological rules taught in previous levels especially with all kinds of accusatives.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 – Modules (5 and 6)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Use idiomatic expressions to narrate stories (folklore or from real life) with tone.
- Report news events.
- Use appropriate register for reporting news and narrating stories.
- Discuss social issues of adolescents in different countries.
- Present social issues using language of statistics.
- Justify decisions based on pros and cons.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use auxiliary verbs such as: (راح / قام / قعد / فضل + فعل مضارع من غير بـ ) ) and ( من غير بـ عمّال+ فعل مضارع ).
- Use the past perfect and negation of past perfect tenses in narration such as: ( كان بقى/ ماكنش بقالي).
- Use the language of comparisons لكن – في حين – بالمقارنة بـ – إنما – في حين – بخلاف – بالنسبة لـ.
- Revise different tenses.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 – Modules ( 7 and 8 )
- Authentic materials (Talk Shows and movies)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Describe personalities, personal traits and their effect on relationships.
- Describe and discuss families with regard to size, parent’s relations, values and rules.
- Talk about appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in different cultures.
- Demonstrate understanding of metaphors taken from common Egyptian proverbs.
- Presents and gives supported opinions about problems.
- Analyze reasons and extend statements to include further details.
- Discuss social issues of young people such as early marriage and divorce.
- Describe the changes and devolvement of own character.
- Discuss issues related to homesickness.
- Discuss issues related to Egyptian traditions.
- Understand extended conversations of multiple participants on abstract topics as talk shows.
- Understand the plot of Arabic films and identify relations between characters.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use adjectival phrases to describe personal characteristics.
- Use auxiliary words e.g. (مسيره يوصل / زمانه وصل + different tenses).
- Use passive voice in present simple and continuous tenses to discuss issues.
- Use connectors to extend statements and include further details.
- Use reported speech in different tenses.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 – Modules (3 and 4 )
- Authentic materials ( Talk Show and movies)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Talk about travel and tourism.
- Discuss about different aspects of culture shock.
- Talk about common challenges in everyday life.
- Discuss issues and give supported opinions.
- Discuss complaints and analyze the reasons.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use the perfect continuous tense.
- Use future continuous and perfect tenses هيكون لسّه + اسم فاعل / بـ + فعل مضارع
- Use connectors expressing exceptions and conditionals such as: إلا – ماعدا – غير – إلا إذا – حتّى إذا – حتّى لو – حتّى و لو.
- Use connectors and modals with compound tenses such as: على الرغم من – بالرغم من – مع إن – برغم – رغم إن – رغم.
- Use modals for advice مش كان أحسن تعمل كذا؟.
30 – 40 class hours online
Course Materials:
- Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 – Modules (1, 2 )
- Authentic materials (newspapers, TV shows and movies, and audiovisuals)
- Listening materials: AUC Press
- The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”.
- Extra authentic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Oral Skills:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to:
- Discuss current issues of economy.
- Discuss issues of homeless children
- Discuss issues of sexual harassment.
- Present analysis of issues and support opinions.
- Compare traditions and customs in the Egyptian society to own culture.
- Talk about educational systems and innovations.
- Discuss issues of violence in the society.
Grammar:
By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will:
- Use passive voice in describing status and developments الامتحان اتلغى ولازم يتعدل.
- Use verb (يبقى) as an auxiliary verb or as filler.
- Use connectors to extend statements and include further details.
Prices of each method
Price/Hour
$22/hour
$20/hour
$20/ hour + 2 free conversation hours