Arabic

ARABIC PROGRAMME

Arabic ranks as the fifth most spoken language in the world with more than 300 million native speakers in 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam and it is understood by many Muslims throughout the world. Learning Arabic will help you to understand Islam, the Quran, and Muslim culture. Arabic-speaking countries are a fast growing market for trade and business and provide a huge export and import market for goods and services. Knowing Arabic will get you ahead in a thriving economy and you will set yourself apart in the business world.

The knowledge of a foreign language is considered to be a distinct advantage in almost every profession and people with bilingual or multilingual skills are in demand in almost all sectors. Knowing Arabic is extremely rewarding and those who master the language can find careers in many fields like business and industry, journalism, education, finance and banking, translation and interpretation, tourism, etc.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE

Upon successful completion of Arabic 3 you will be able to read, write and comprehend texts of moderate complexity and to express yourself in a variety of contexts appropriate for daily experiences. A certificate of proficiency is awarded to participants who successfully complete Arabic 3.
At NUS students enjoy teachers’ personal attention and dedicated support. Our teachers are highly qualified and well-versed in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers and our teaching materials are among the best available in the market. We invite you to join us to learn Arabic with committed teachers and excellent teaching materials at the most affordable prices!

Pre-requisites

NO MINIMUM STANDARD REQUIRED FOR EMBARKING ON THE COURSE

The Arabic Language modules are designed in progression from Level 1 to Level 3. This corresponds to a beginner in the language focus to roughly the equivalent of Beginner Level.

No specific pre-requisites are needed to enroll in Level 1. However, people who have intention to join mid-stage in the series of Levels are advised to conduct the placement test.

Please contact us at clslang@nus.edu.sg for the placement test.

Assessments

INCORPORATING ASSESSMENTS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Each module of content comprises some 30 hours, incorporating assessments and assignments. For each of the levels from 1 to 3, there will be an assessment (pass or fail) set for students to gauge their ability and readiness to continue onto the next higher level in Arabic Language.

Certificates of Participation will be granted to participants who have attended at least 70% of the classes.

Certificates of Achievement will be granted to participants who have attended at least 70% of the classes and successfully passed the final assessment.

Proficiency Certificates will be granted to individuals who have successfully completed three consecutive levels, encompassing Levels 1 to 3, Levels 4 to 6, and Levels 7 to Level 9.

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LEVEL 1 (Weekdays)

ARABIC LEVEL 1

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 6 January 2025	Course End Date: 17 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 7pm to 830pm, every Monday & Wednesday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2016503391*** Learn more

This course is approved by National Silver Academy (NSA). Singapore Citizens aged 50 and above will be eligible for a subsidy of up to 50% off the course fee. For more information on NSA, please visit www.nsa.org.sg

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

This course is designed to teach students the basics of Arabic language which include Arabic script, basic grammatical concepts, text reading and conversation skills.

Course Content:
1. Arabic alphabet
2. Arabic alphabet, greetings
3. Arabic alphabet, getting to know others
4. Arabic alphabet, where are you from
5. Arabic alphabet, definite article, sun and moon letters, where do you live?
6. Arabic alphabet, Hamza, where do you study
7. Demonstratives of proximity
8. Question words and Yes/ No
9. Numbers
10. Personal separate pronouns
11. The conjunction “and”
12. Locative demonstratives
13. Adjectives and adjectival agreement
14. Colours, days of the week, months and seasons

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Read and write Arabic Scripts very well.
2. Maintain simple everyday conversations, such as greetings, introductions, asking about objects, countries, nationalities, jobs, numbers, and describing people.
3. Get acquainted with the Arab World and its culture.

Required Textbook:

At-Takallum Arabic Teaching Set -- Starter Level : A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course Innovative Approach

LEVEL 2 (Weekdays)

ARABIC LEVEL 2

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 6 January 2025	Course End Date: 17 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 7pm to 830pm, every Monday & Wednesday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2016503392*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

In this course, participants will expand their basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary in the assigned lessons and develop strong reading, writing, speaking and listening abilities. They will learn to write short paragraphs, practice reading and understand conversations in formal settings. The course will provide participants with ample opportunities to practice and use language in a supportive community of learners. In order to do so, participants will work in groups or in pairs. Each student is required to be involved by preparing for class and doing assigned homework prior to class as well as participate in classwork activities.

Course Content:
1. Greetings and getting to know people: vocabulary, culture and grammar
2. At the classroom: vocabulary, culture, and grammar
3. Ahmad's house I: vocabulary, culture and grammar, days of the week, masculine and feminine, singular, dual and plural
4. Ahmad's house II: vocabulary, culture, and grammar, directions, expressing possession, adverbs, question words
5. At the airport: vocabulary, culture, and grammar types of plural, adverbs of time and of place, prepositions, telling the time

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Consolidate their reading skills in Arabic.
2. Converse in Arabic in a variety of topics with fluency and confidence.
3. Learn more structures of the target language.
4. Write short compositions in a variety of topics.
5. Know more about the Arab World and its culture.

Required Textbook:
At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. ELEMENTARY A2 Level

LEVEL 1 (Saturdays)

ARABIC LEVEL 1

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 11 January 2025	Course End Date: 15 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 9am to 12pm, every Saturday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2016503391*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

This course is designed to teach students the basics of Arabic language which include Arabic script, basic grammatical concepts, text reading and conversation skills.

Required Textbook:

At-Takallum Arabic Teaching Set -- Starter Level : A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course Innovative Approach

LEVEL 2 (Saturdays)

ARABIC LEVEL 2

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 11 January 2025	Course End Date: 15 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 9am to 12pm, every Saturday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2016503392*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

Required Textbook:
At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. ELEMENTARY A2 Level

LEVEL 3

ARABIC LEVEL 3

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 11 January 2025	Course End Date: 15 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 9am to 12pm, every Saturday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-201650339*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

This course is designed to help participants bring their language skills in Arabic to an advanced level. It helps participants attain a high standard of proficiency in the target language by expanding their reading and comprehension skills, building up their vocabulary acquisition, strengthening their knowledge of Arabic grammar, and broadening their awareness and appreciation of the Arab culture.

Course Content:
1. At the taxi: vocabulary, culture, and grammar, possessive pronouns
2. At the hotel: vocabulary, culture, and grammar, past, present, future and imperative, noun of place, relative pronouns
3. At the University of Jordan: vocabulary, culture, and grammar, conjugation of the verb in the past, present and future
4. At the market II: vocabulary, culture, and grammar
5. At the restaurant: vocabulary, culture, and grammar, subjunctive mood

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
1. Discuss and converse in Arabic in a wide range of topics with fluency.
2. Describe events, give instructions and express various meanings using a wide range of vocabulary with more confidence.
3. Understand and follow instructions, infer meanings from other people's speech and respond appropriately to a variety of questions.
4. Make requests and suggestions, express wishes and describe events in more detail in writing.
5. Learn new more challenging grammatical structures and case assignment rules.
6. Read and comprehend longer and more challenging texts.
7. Appreciate the Arab World and its culture better.

Required Textbook:

At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. ELEMENTARY A2 Level

LEVEL 4

ARABIC LEVEL 4

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: 11 January 2025	Course End Date: 15 March 2025
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: 2pm to 5pm, every Saturday for 10 weeks
Registration Start: 26 October 2024	Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024	Course Schedule

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2019507985*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

This course aims to enable students to communicate in Arabic with greater fluency and accuracy. To maximize students’ communicative ability, explanation of grammar points, vocabulary, and linguistic forms of the language will be terse and to the point, through examples and inductive learning. Most of the learning will be done collaboratively –in pairs, groups, or the class a whole. A wide range of topics will be explored to increase students’ awareness of the Arabic culture and to enhance their communicative competence.

Course Content:
1. At the bank, vocab, culture and grammar, elidable Hamza, negation of past and present and future
2. At the post office, vocab, culture and grammar, verbal and nominal sentences
3. At the clinic, vocab, culture and grammar, nominal and verbal sentences
4. Visiting a friend at the hospital, vocab, culture and grammar, sound nouns, indeclinable, nouns, defective nouns and nouns that end in Alif Hamza
5. Family, vocab, culture and grammar, number noun agreement, comparative and superlative

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Read and write Arabic without the diacritics (short vowels).
2. Communicate in Arabic with ease and accuracy on a variety of topics.
3. Read, understand and discuss a variety of topics that pertains to the Arab World.
4. Write relatively long paragraphs on a variety of topics using more complex structures and selective vocabulary.
5. Independently read and make a presentation on a topic of their selection to their classmates.
6. Know more about the culture of the Arab World.

Required Textbook:
At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. ELEMENTARY A2 Level

LEVEL 5

ARABIC LEVEL 5

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: TBC	Course End Date: TBC
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: TBC
Registration Start: TBC	Registration Deadline: TBC

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2019507986*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

Arabic 5 is an advanced course where students will achieve better oral fluency, considerable ability in listening and reading comprehension on a variety of topics, and better writing proficiency. Oral activities in the form of group discussions, pair work, role-plays, and presentations will be conducted regularly in classes. Students will be exposed to a vocabulary on a variety of topics and learn how to express themselves in a more idiomatic manner.

Course Content:
1. At the beach, vocabulary, culture, and grammar, verb conjugation, prepositions, adverbs
2. At the bus stop, vocabulary, culture and grammar, subjunctive mood, every, all, whole
3. At the grocery store, vocabulary, culture and grammar, sound, hollow, defective and assimilated verbs
4. At the vegetables and fruits market, vocabulary, culture and grammar, negation of present and past tenses, separate pronouns, active and passive participles
5. At the butcher, vocabulary, culture and grammar,

By the end of the course, students would be able to:
1. Express themselves in day-to-day conversational topics.
2. Write short essays, buying lists, observations, etc.
3. Read texts with no hesitation or mistakes.
4. Become valid and active language learners
5. Get a sense of Arabic culture and lifestyle in depth

Required Textbook:

At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. ELEMENTARY A2 Level

LEVEL 6

ARABIC LEVEL 6

Course Fee: Full fee: $654 \| Fee after NSA subsidy: $354	Course Start Date: TBC	Course End Date: TBC
Material Cost: $84.55 (including GST) (Books will be delivered)	Venue: Online Class (As this is an online course, the use of webcam will be compulsory for everyone.)	Schedule: TBC
Registration Start: TBC	Registration Deadline: TBC

All self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use available funds in their SkillsFuture Credit account to pay their course fees.
SFC Course Code: ***TGS-2019507987*** Learn more

For NUS Alumni/Staff/ Student, there will be a 10% discount off the course fee before GST.

This course is an advanced course and it is intended to make students proficient language users. Grammar and morphology will be studied in more details. Students will better their speaking skills through group discussions, pair work and oral presentations. They will read a variety of texts that cover a wide range of topics and experiences. They will learn to write new types of essays using more selective language and complex structures.

Course content:
1. At the clothing store, vocabulary, culture, and grammar, synonyms and antonums, subjunctive mood
2. At the barber, vocabulary, culture and grammar, colours, maculine and feminine, types of plural
3. At the jewelery store, vocabulary, culture and grammar, hollow and assimilated verbs, plural
4. At the travel agency I, vocabulary, culture and grammar, ordinal numbers
5. At the travel agency II, vocabulary, culture and grammar

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Communicate in Arabic with increased ease and higher accuracy on a variety of advanced topics.
2. Leverage reading strategies effectively to achieve a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of texts.
3. Read, understand and discuss a variety of topics that pertain to the Arab world.
4. Write essays on a variety of topics using more complex sentence structures and a wider range of vocabulary.
5. Understand Arab culture and tradition.

Required Textbook:

At-Takallum: A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course. INTERMEDIATE B1 Level