DC Language Classes

Adjunct Professor of Arabic: Mr. Kaplan

DC Internationals is proud to offer Arabic I- a ten week intensive, non-credit course designed to teach Beginning Modern Standard Arabic through immersion, fun and humor.

Times and location

See class schedule.

Location: United Methodist Church Classrooms at 1920 G Street, NW, Washington DC.

No previous foreign language experience is required. By the end of the semester, you can expect to have basic reading, writing, and speaking skills.

Academic Goals

Arabic I students will be taught the alphabet within two classes to facilitate full-language learning within the 10 week class. Students will learn the alphabet immediately is essential to learning the language. By week three we will learn how to write basic vocabulary and the pronouns, to quickly facilitate basic conversation.

In the same lesson, we will learn the possessive pronouns and the difference between masculine and feminine nouns. These skills will enable students to speak and write non-verbal sentences, also known as equational sentences.Students will begin learning verbs like "to have" at week 4-5. We will learn the present tense that week, hence you will be able to conjugate the three kinds of present tense verbs, differentiated by the vowel patterns.The class will take a Mid-Term at week 6-7, depending upon the material covered thus-far. The week after the Mid-Term we will learn the past tense.

While augmenting our lexicon all the while, we will be able to read, write and speak basic sentences in both the present and past tenses. Handouts will facilitate all of the above mentioned. We will have a Final on the last class.

Materials

Besides the handouts and notes from class, students will use two books that will be provided in class tax- and shipping-free.

There will be a $25 late fee for course registration after classes begin.