70345 - Basics of Arabic

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • 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)

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
 E. Baldissera, Dizionario compatto Arabo-ItalianoLItaliano-Arabo: Zanichelli, 1994;
  The oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of current usage, Oxford University Press 1984.
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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