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Textbook: Brustad, Al-Batal, and Al-Tonsi, Al-Kitaab Fii TA Callum Al-Carabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part 1, 2nd edition with DVDs, 2004. ISBN 9781589011045

Brustad, Al-Batal, and Al-Tonsi, Al-Kitaab Fii TA Callum Al-Carabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part 2, 2nd edition with DVDs, 2006. ISBN 9781589010963

Dates: August 27th  - December, 8 , 2008

Time: Independent study for the Fall 08.

If you are a native speaker of Arabic, before enrolling in this course, please contact the instructor for approval at arabicclass@txstate.edu.

For more information about the content of this course, contact Mr. Amjad Mohammed at arabicclass@txstate.edu.

Arabic 2320 Objectives

By the end of Arabic 2320 you will, in-shaa’a-llaah,

• be prepared to reach an advanced-low proficiency in Arabic;
• be able to read texts on familiar topics and understand most of the text without using the dictionary;
• be able to speak about yourself and your environment, and initiate and sustain conversations on a number of topics other than yourself and your family;
• be able to carry out written transactions related to daily life and write medium length to long letters and essays; and
• be familiar with many aspects of Arabic culture, such as social and religious customs and traditions, family life, and education.

In terms of grammatical structures, you will

• recognize and use verbs in all major tenses;
• learn about the common verb patterns;
• be able to narrate in present, past and future time frames;
• be able to recognize and form complex sentence structures such as dependent clauses and there is/there are sentence structures;
• be able to recognize and use negation patterns; and
• add approximately 1000 words or more to your vocabulary.