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Arabic language I A
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1 - 1 -
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| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
20.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
75.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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0.0 |
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0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
0.0 |
Prerequisites:
Arabic script; article; personal pronous; imperfect of strong verb; to have, prepositions; broken plural; syntax of the nominal sentence (see the website under the section "Other information").
Educational goals:
Introduction to Standard Modern Arabic. To acquire elements of phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, particles and negation. Basic vocabulary to deal with simple communicative situations. Introduction to Islam.
Course contents:
Socio-linguistic introduction to the Arab world. Phonology: - scientific transliteration of Arabic - vocal phonemes and allophones - support vowels - pause and context pronunciation - Nouns: (in-)definiteness - noun cases - construct state - formation of the plural - dual - nisbah adjectives - syntax of adjectives - personal pronouns - demonstrative pronouns - relative pronouns - elative. Particles: prepositions - conjunctions - negation. Verb - verbal prepositions - past of simple verbs - laysa - introduction to the verbal system - active participle, future and imperative of the first form - vocabulary: form and root - cardinal and ordinal numbers - countries and capitals of the Arab world - time, seasons, months, hours. Introduction to Islam - the Arab and Muslim worlds - the life of the Prophet - source of Islamic law - the 5 pillars of Islam.
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Teaching activities:
Lectures and twenty hours of exrecises with a native speaker
Assessment:
written + oral
Translation of brief sentences from Italian into Arabic + oral interview on the Introduction to Islam.
Teaching language:
Italian
Other information:
All students are invited to attend the introductory course held by Mrs. R. Hamdi from 17/09 to 02/10. (http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=lls_propedeutici) Some of the topics dealt with in the introductory course will be repeated in the Arabic Language course IA. Non-attending students must prepare the same programme. The 20 hours of applied activities will be devoted to writing, reading and pronunciation exercises. The written and oral exam can be taken in English.