Modern Standard Arabic A1
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Course code
HIL6571.HT
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Course title in Estonian
Araabia keel A1
Course title in English
Modern Standard Arabic A1
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Alice Volkonski (language of instruction:Estonian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The aim is to create possibilities to obtain following topics in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in speech and in written form:
1. Arabic alphabet and pronunciation of the letters; nouns and adjectives;
2. verbs in MSA: regular verbs, hamziated verbs, assimilated, hollowed and defective verbs; verb moods;
3. syntax: nominal, interrogative, verbal, ʾinna and relative sentences.
Brief description of the course
This is a beginners course. The following topics of MSA will be dealt with during the course:
1. Arabic alphabet and pronunciation of the letters; nouns and adjectives;
2. verbs in MSA: regular verbs, hamziated verbs, assimilated, hollowed and defective verbs; verb moods;
3. syntax: nominal, interrogative, verbal, ʾinna and relative sentences.
The topics will be discussed through grammar exercises, reading texts and retelling them.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge of the grammar topics dealt with during the course;
- has skills to independently construct and understand sentences in MSA according to the grammar topics dealt with during the course;
- has ability to independently read and create texts containing the grammar topics dealt with during the course;
Teacher
Alice Volkonski
The course is a prerequisite
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