Course Details
Start date
Monday, 18th November 2024
End date
Monday, 7th July 2025
Mondays 7pm-8.30pm
Time
Mondays 7pm-8.30pm
Course Venue
Abu Zahra Foundation
Devonshire Street, Keighley, BD21 2BL
Teachers
Ustadh Sulayman Mohammed Shahnawaz
Age Group
Course Description
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The Foundation Level is an introductory course taught over 25 weeks with a total of 37.5 hours of teaching time. It will have you speaking with confidence in the least amount of time. Classes will be interactive, and you will be fully involved: reading out aloud, repeating phrases from memory, filling in gaps, writing your own pieces of work and above all speaking through presentations, conversations and role plays. Your active participation will ensure that you leave every class with new acquired language.
Taught by an experienced, native Arabic speaking teacher, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your language skills in a short period of time. Our syllabus is designed to fully engage every learner and maintain high motivational levels so that learning Arabic is a pleasure rather than an effort. The structured approached and variety of lesson material will deliver the very best communicative Arabic course to meet every learning style.
The course will teach proficiency in formal Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This Arabic Beginner’s course will enable you to communicate confidently on a basic level in everyday situations, socialise and not feel out of place when visiting Arabic-speaking countries.
Course Outline
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From day one you will communicate – listen, read, speak and write – in Arabic. Vocabulary will be learned by using it and not just through rote memorisation. The emphasis is on developing your communicative skills and only focusing on Applied Grammar. Our course moto is: ‘Receive in Arabic Produce in Arabic.’ There is no figuring it out for yourself, just imitate and repeat until you possess the skill.
The course is based on our choice core textbook: Al-Arabiyya Bayna Yadayk Level 1 – Book 1
Students will be assessed through a combination of written and oral examinations.
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Course Requirements
The course is suitable for women (age 16+) who can read the Arabic script fairly comfortably.
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Course Fee
Free
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Course Calendar
Tbc
Student Testimonials
(Ashfaq Ghumra)
This course has benefited me in many ways and I would recommend it to anyone wishing to practically apply their knowledge of Arabic syntax and morphology to contemporary and classical texts, to gain a deeper understanding of the language. The texts were carefully selected and the engagement with the teacher truly guides the student, facilitating their comprehension of how the writer explains concepts pertaining to themes in Quranic exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence and general Arabic literature. In particular, I greatly benefited from the exposure to new vocabulary, recognition of repeated patterns in sentence structures, use of a dictionary to prepare translations, familiarisation of stylististic variations and encountering new phraseology. This course has increased my confidence to open, read and understand unvowelised Arabic texts and I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to do the same!
(Fatima Chafai)
The Level Two course has been a challenging but very rewarding course that I would recommend to anyone serious in advancing in their Arabic language studies. We have had the chance to decipher different styles of writing in Arabic literature and tafsir and progressed to entirely non-voweled texts. We were given plenty of support in recognising sentence structures, different forms of the verbs as well as irregular verbs without any diacritical marks to make sense of sometimes extremely long passages with next to no punctuation in them. Moreover, the translations of the texts brought with them a depth in understanding and appreciation of the deen.