Adults pathway · Level 1 · Course 4 · Arabic

Basic Arabic

For adults who want their first words of Arabic: greeting, introducing yourself, counting from 1 to 10, talking about your family, mosque vocabulary and simple sentences. Lots of flashcards to memorise.

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3 units10 lessons~160 min total

Course outline

Unit 1

Greeting and introducing yourself

1
1. Welcome: which Arabic will we learn?Literary Arabic and the dialects, how the course is organised, and how to use the flashcards.
10 min
2
2. GreetingsSalam and its reply, good morning, good evening, how are you, thank you and goodbye.
15 min
3
3. Introducing yourselfSaying your name, where you are from and where you live, with the pronouns "I", "you", "he" and "she".
15 min

Unit 2

Numbers and family

1
1. The numbers from 1 to 10Counting from 1 to 10, reading the Arabic digits ١ ٢ ٣ and stating your age simply.
15 min
2
2. The familyFamily words: parents, brothers and sisters, children, grandparents, uncles and aunts.
15 min
3
3. "My", "your" and "this is"Saying "my father", "your mother", and introducing someone with هٰذَا and هٰذِهِ.
15 min

Unit 3

The mosque and simple sentences

1
1. Mosque vocabularyThe words you hear at the mosque: imam, prayer, call, minbar, qibla, ablutions…
15 min
2
2. Simple sentencesMaking a sentence without the verb "to be", with the article "al" and an adjective that agrees.
20 min
3
3. Asking questions and saying where things areQuestion words (where, what, who, is it) and small words of place (in, on, in front of, behind).
20 min
4
4. A dialogue at the mosque and reviewA dialogue that brings the whole course together, then a review set and how to keep learning.
20 min