Beginning Arabic for Oral Communication

Catalog description

ARABIC FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION is designed for students who desire to learn how to orally communicate in Arabic or who have taken Arabic for Global Exchange. This course does not teach how to read or write Arabic. It offers students the opportunity to engage in speaking and listening activities and complete a variety of related oral practice assignments in and outside of class, using a spoken Arabic that would be widely understood anywhere in the Arab World. The conversation topics will be greetings, self-introduction, hobbies, proper terms of address in casual and professional settings, and describing feelings and places.