Introductory Arabic 2
UndergraduateANU-ARAB10032025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Introductory Arabic 2
About this subject
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Read simple hand written or printed material containing frequently used structural forms, patterns and vocabulary;
- Read and understand known language elements that have been recombined in new ways to achieve different meanings at similar levels of grammatical complexity;
- Demonstrate sufficient control of Modern Standard Arabic vocabulary and syntactic patterns to meet social demands and write passages related to social and cultural activities, while expressing main tenses with accuracy;
- Use a dictionary or online resources to assist own oral, aural, reading and written communication strategies and engage in independent reading and writing;
- Articulate developed courtesy requirements and maintain simple face-to-face conversations on familiar topics; and
- Respond to and formulate questions in order to engage in a conversation about simple personal and social matters, or to present a chosen topic to an audience.
- Lesson 1: Reading passage : عائِلةُ مَهى لَحّام. Arabic last names. Revisiting the object of the verb or the preposition. Ordinal numbers. Pronouns of separation. Cultural note
- Lesson 2: Reading passage. The cardinal numbers after ten. Cultural note
- Lesson 3: Reading passage. The verb to like and to want. Introduction to the Arabic adverb. The verb to eat and to drink. More on plurals - Feminine and broken plurals. Cultural note
- Lesson 4: Reading passage. Telling the time. Breaking consonant clusters. Mass and count nouns. Reading hundreds and thousands. Conversation – Making an appointment. Cultural note
- Lesson 5: Reading passage. The interrogative noun أي. The imperative. Expressing possession with لِ and مَعَ. Attaching pronouns to the verb. Cultural note
- Lesson 6: Reading passage. Days of the weeks. The Past tense. The Arabic participles. The verbal noun revisited. More on attached pronouns. The idafa structure revisited. Cultural note
- Lesson 7: Reading passage. The months of the year – Western and Islamic calendars. The verb كانَ. The Future tense. Expressing sequence using قَبْلَ and بَعْدَ. Noun-Adjective agreement revisited. Cultural note
- Lesson 8: Reading passage. The verb ظَنّ. The verb قال. The elative. The preposition بِ. Two special nouns. Cultural note
- Lesson 9: Reading passage. The four seasons and the weather. The Partitive nouns. The colours. Cultural note
- Lesson 10: Reading passage. Negating the imperative / The jussive. Expressing reason using لأنّ. The position of the verb in the Arabic sentence. The idafa structure revisited - duals and plurals. Cultural note
The Arabic Language major sequence enables students to acquire valuable skills pertaining to the use of Arabic in a communicative way, as well as an understanding of the Arabic culture. It trains students to achieve communicative competence in four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also prepares students to function at different levels within the Arabic speaking societies and to interact with people. In the first year, students undertaking Introductory Arabic 1 and Introductory Arabic 2 develop basic competences in both written and oral grammatical patterns, both orally and in writing, using Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and learn to interact in limited aspects of everyday life situations. Emphasis is on mastering the Arabic sound system and pronunciation.
This course extends from Introductory Arabic 1. Students will develop their skills in reading, writing and conversation and undertake translation from and into Arabic at an advanced introductory level.
- Conversation Class (10%)
- 3 x Online reading, writing and listening exercises (30%)
- Write 200 words on a given topic (15%)
- Oral Exam (15%)
- 2 hour online test. Reading, comprehension, translation, grammar and composition (30%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Yes
- Other requirements - You are required to take a placement test or to have completed ARAB1002 Introductory Arabic 1. To successfully engage in this course students will need the following: • Laptop or computer • Computer camera (either inbuilt or webcam) • Headset with microphone • Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browser • Reliable internet access • Access to a scanner or smartphone and to a printer
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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