Intermediate Arabic I

This course focuses on the careful study of the Arab lexicon and grammar through texts written in modern Arab language. Content: fractional numbers, time, relatives, vocabulary 'positions, functions and professions', short autobiography, introduction to assimilated and concave roots, vocabulary 'weather, seasons, months and days', identification of time in the text 'the man and the weather', conversation 'types of greetings', comparative and superlative adjectives, vocabulary 'family, relatives, and animals', identification of family members and animals in the text 'the man and the animal', denominative, vocabulary 'continents, nations, and nature', identify continents and nations in the text 'the Arab world', question mark, vocabulary 'plans and food', negative sentences, vocabulary 'dining hall and dress', translation 'Spanish-Arab and Arab-Spanish.'