• The second level in a series of courses designed to take you from no knowledge of Arabic to a high level of proficiency
• The biggest goal of this course is to teach you how to understand more complex sentence structures and how to use a dictionary
• Consists of both pre-recorded lecture sessions twice a week and live hands-on tutorials twice a week
• Special online tools will help you practice forming sentences and learning vocabulary
• Comprehensive exams will help you track your progress

Details

During the course, you will do formal sentence breakdowns (i.e. comprehensive grammatical analysis) of 12 hadiths. You will be required to memorize these hadiths and their analyses so that by the end of the course you will understand these hadiths completely.

This course is inspired by the classical approach to teaching and learning Arabic at institutions of religious education located in non-Arab lands. This classical approach has been slightly modified in light of modern language-learning techniques adopted by universities in the West and Arabic language institutes in the Middle East. The combination of ancient and modern makes this course the first of its kind in the English-speaking world. The method of this course is similar to the “grammar-translation method” of learning a foreign language—focusing on grammatical rules, the memorization of vocabulary and conjugations, translations of texts, and written exercises.

Weekly live sessions for this course will allow you the opportunity to put into practice all of the theories discussed during the pre-recorded sessions. Weekly tutorial sessions will be conducted by your qualified teacher. These tutorials will be highly interactive. Beyond the lessons, several very important special features will enhance your learning experience.

• LESSON 1
  Word-Level Analysis
  • review of word types
  • review of states
  • completion of pointing nouns
• LESSON 2
  Word-Level Analysis (2)
  • review of regular nouns
  • review of states
  • five special nouns
• LESSON 3
  Construction-Level Analysis
  • review of constructions
  • connection-construction
• LESSON 4
  Verbs (1)
  • review of verbs
  • command tense verb
• LESSON 5
  Verbs (2)
  • review of verbs
  • doer-less verb
  • rule of consecutive sukuns
• LESSON 6
  Introduction to Word-Derivation
  • doer-nouns
  • done-to nouns
• LESSON 7
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form II
• LESSON 8
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form III and Form IV
• LESSON 9
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form V & Negating Verbs LESSON 10
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form VI & Prohibitive La
• LESSON 11
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form VII & Lan
• LESSON 12
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form VIII and Using the Dictionary
• LESSON 13
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form IX & Colors & An (That)
• LESSON 14
  The Ten Verb Forms: Form X & Qala / Kana
• LESSON 15
  The Comparative Noun & Review of J-Construction as a Linker
• LESSON 16
  Lisa
• LESSON 17
  Place and Time Containers
• LESSON 18
  Inna and Related Particles
  • special characteristics of these particles
  • Inna as an emphasizer
  • anna as an emphasizer and connector
  • lakinna as a corrector
• LESSON 19
  Inna and Related Particles with J-Constructions
  • review of Inna and related particles
  • reversal of the subject and predicate in the presence of j-constructions
• LESSON 20
  The La of Categorical Negation

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• Successful completion of Introductory Arabic 1. Students are strongly encouraged to take Introductory Arabic 1 before this course, even if they have some Arabic background. This is a new approach to Arabic learning with many new technical terms; thus, most students will find it difficult to adapt to Introductory Arabic 2 without the first-semester course. If you strongly feel that you should take this course without Introductory Arabic 1, then please apply after registering.
• The 40 Hadith of Imam Nawawi is a recommended complementary course.
• You are required to have a copy of The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic edited by J.M. Cowan.

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