- Docente: Ahmad Addous
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/12
- Language: Arabic
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 6604)
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from Oct 01, 2025 to Dec 17, 2025
Learning outcomes
Students learn the standard topics of Arabic language.
Comprehension of written and spoken Modern Arabic.
Usage of modern Arabic grammar more than traditional grammatical methodology.
Course contents
The course will be articulated in the following lines:
- A brief history of the development of the alphabet; Fundamental notions of phonetics, a full orthographic knowledge, morphology and elements of syntax; Grammer: the article, the pronouns (personale pronouns and demonstrative pronouns), the noun (masculine and feminine), interrogative particles, "Idhafa", the adjective (adjctive pattern, comparative and superlative of the adjective), the simple nouminal sentence (al-Mumbtada' wa al Khabar), the simple derived form of the verb (perfect and imperfect), the cardinal numebers (cuonting with masculine and feminine nouns).
Readings/Bibliography
- A. Al-Addous, corso di lingua araba in dispensa;
- A. al-Addous, Arabo fondamentale: materiali didattici, Libreria Bonomo Editrice, Bologna 2008;
- A. Manca, Grammatica Teorico-Pratica di arabo letterario moderno, Roma: associazione Nazionale di Amicizia e Cooperazione Italo-araba, 1989.
Dictionaries
Dizionario compatto Arabo-Italiano/Italiano –Arabo, E. Baldiserra, Zanichelli, BOLOGNA 1994;
The Oxford English- Arabic Dictionary of current usage, ed. N. S. Doniach, Oxford University Press 1984.
Arabisch-Deutsch/ Deutsch-Arabisch, von Georg Krotkoff, Berlin [etc.] : Langenscheidt, 1976.
Other indications and materials will be furnished during the cuorse of the lessons.
Teaching methods
Practical exercise, audio and video recording.
Assessment methods
The course will end with a written examination test, followed an oral examination.
Teaching tools
A. Al-Addous; G. Soravia, Iman: Cuorse of arabic Language (CD-Rom). Bologna: Clueb 2003.
A. Al-Addous; S. Nanni, Al-Teatro: drammaturgie didattiche per l’apprendimento dell’arabo letterario, voll. I-V., Libreria Bonomo editrice, Bologna 2015.
Office hours
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