Overview
What you will study
The Arabic Beginners course offered by City, University of London will introduce the Arabic script, letter by letter, to learn its unique sounds and develop listening and speaking skills.
Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll learn how to make polite requests and express likes and dislikes. We’ll also spend time exploring Arabic media and culture.
By the end of the course, you’ll understand the structure of Arabic and feel confident translating simple sentences, communicating at CEFR A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- to write and read the alphabet and recognise sounds (phonetics)
- some colloquial Arabic
- greetings
- to describe everyday objects, surroundings, family, countries and people
- to talk about daily routines, numbers and prices, telling time and weather
- to discuss food, drink and activities
- to discuss likes and dislikes
- to handle simple daily conversation and request information
- to talk about present, past and future events
- Arabic culture including Arab countries and capitals, political system and media.
- Grammatical structures
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 7 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
- StartingApply anytime.
- The nominal deadline is the Wednesday before the start of term, for 10 week courses, but it will be shown on the course page for each enrollable date.
Language
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Disciplines
Language Studies View 98 other Short Courses in Language Studies in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- We’ve designed this course for complete beginners.
- You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.
Tuition Fee
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International
660 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 660 GBP for the full programme during 7 months. -
National
660 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 660 GBP for the full programme during 7 months.