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Arabic

Save Arabic as a language-learning interest while level-specific, reviewed instruction is developed.

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What this course establishes

  • Distinguish Arabic script, beginner vocalization, transliteration, and meaning in a basic greeting
  • Exchange name, origin, residence, and limited language information in introductory Modern Standard Arabic
  • State non-understanding, request repetition or slower speech, and confirm a key detail while recognizing address agreement

Entry knowledge

  • No prior Arabic required
  • Ability to read or use an accessible alternative for short right-to-left text

Scope boundaries

  • Introductory Modern Standard Arabic interaction only; not fluency, dialect mastery, Qur'anic or Classical Arabic expertise, interpretation, translation, complete literacy, certification, or professional-language qualification

Fastest competency route

No fluency or fastest-hour claim; acceleration depends on demonstrated listening, speaking, right-to-left reading, writing, interaction, and repair competence rather than transliteration recognition.

  1. Pass script, vocalization, meaning, listening, pronunciation, and register diagnostics after approved audio exists
  2. Complete greeting, identity, and communication-repair performances
  3. Correct script, direction, vocalization, transliteration, grammar, meaning, address, and register errors in a final portfolio

Full self-paced route

  1. Script, vocalization, and greetings lesson with qualified-speaker audio
  2. Identity, pronouns, and information lesson
  3. Requests, address agreement, repair, and confirmation lesson
  4. Interaction portfolio, feedback, revision, and final assessment

Lesson and assessment map

01

الخطّ والتحية — script, vocalization, and greetings

Keep right-to-left Arabic script, optional beginner vowel marks, transliteration, sound, and meaning distinct while exchanging greetings.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

02

الاسم والأصل والسكن واللغة — identity and information

Exchange a name, origin, residence, and limited language ability while applying basic pronoun and address distinctions.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

03

الطلب والإصلاح والتأكيد — requests, repair, and confirmation

State non-understanding, request repetition or slower speech, and confirm a key detail while recognizing address agreement.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

Required applied assignment

Modern Standard Arabic introductory interaction portfolio

Create three short MSA interactions—greeting, identity exchange, and practical communication repair—with accessible right-to-left Arabic, vocalized and unvocalized forms, transliteration, English functional meaning, address analysis, and revision. Listening and pronunciation scoring remain unavailable until qualified-speaker audio is approved.

  • Greeting exchange with an appropriate return greeting, thanks, and leave-taking
  • Identity exchange covering name, origin, residence, and limited language ability
  • Practical exchange containing non-understanding, a matched repair request, and confirmation
  • Line-by-line vocalized Arabic, unvocalized Arabic, transliteration, English meaning, and scoped lang/dir metadata
  • Pronunciation rehearsal notes tied to approved speaker- and variety-labeled audio once available
  • Revision memo correcting script, direction, vocalization, transliteration, grammar, address agreement, meaning, or register

Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.

Continue after this course

  • Arabic letter shapes, joining behavior, consonants, long vowels, and short-vowel marks
  • Gender and number agreement, pronouns, nominal sentences, and present-tense verbs
  • Listening and conversation in one explicitly labeled regional spoken variety
  • Progressive reading, writing, interaction, and culturally situated usage