- 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 definite and indefinite article, declension: nominative, accusative and genitive, interrogative, the perfect of Kana, broken plurale, pronominale suffixes, the imperfect of the simple verb, the relative pronouns, the future tense, the subjunctive modo, imperative, word order, agreement between tense and subject, negation with laisa, review of past, present and imperative tense, comparative and superlative of the adjective, the cardinal numbers, 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, Clueb, Bologna 2003;
- A. Al-Addous, Arabo fondamentale. Materiali didattici, Bonomo, Bologna 2008.
Dictionaries
1. Langenscheidt. Arabo-italiano, italiano-arabo, Mondadori, 2014;
2. M. Balabaki, Al-Mawrid: A modern English -Arabic Dictionary, Beirut 2002;
3. The Oxford English- Arabic Dictionary of current usage, ed. da N. S. Doniach, Oxford University Press, 1984;
4. Von Georg Krotkoff, Arabisch-Deutsch/ Deutsch-Arabisch, Berlin [etc.], Langenscheidt, 1976.
Teaching methods
Practical exercise, audio and video recording.
Assessment methods
The course will end with 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