- Docente: Ahmad Addous
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
Students learn the basic of Arabic language and culture; be able to understand simple written text and oral speech.
Course contents
- Grammar: the article, the pronouns (personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns), the noun (masculine and feminine), interrogative particles, the adjective (the adjective patterns, comparative and superlative of the adjective), the nominal sentence, the derived forms of the verb (the perfect and the imperfect), the cardinal numbers (counting with masculine and feminine nouns). The Masdar.
Readings/Bibliography
- A. Al-Addous, corso di lingua araba in dispensa, Bologna 2009;
- A. Al-Addous; G. Soravia, Iman: corso di lingua araba in CD-Rom. Bologna, Clueb, 2003;
- I-W- Deheuvels, Grammatica araba, Bologna Zanichelli 2011 (Volume I);
- A. Al-Addous, Arabo fondamentale. Materiali didattici, Bologna, Bonomo 2008.
Vocabolari:
E. Baldissera, Dizionario compatto Arabo-Italiano/Italiano–Arabo. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994;
The Oxford English- Arabic Dictionary of current usage, ed. da N. S. Doniach, Oxford University Press, 1984.
Teaching methods
Practical exercise, audio and video recording.
Assessment methods
The course will end with a written examination test, followed by an oral examination.
Teaching tools
A. Al-Addous, G. Soravia, Iman. Corso di lingua araba (su CD), Bologna, CLUEB, 2003;
A. Al-Addous, Arabo fondamentale: materiali didattici, Libreria Bonomo editrice, Bologna 2008;
J. A. Haywood, A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, London, Lund Humphries.
Office hours
See the website of Ahmad Addous