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GENERAL INFORMATION

Course 101: Eight sessions + One Exam (2.5 hours per session)
Start Date: Wednesday September 29, 2010
End Date: Wednesday November 24, 2010
Time:  7:30 - 10:00 pm
Instructor: Ustadh Abdul Aziz Pippin
Location: Risalah Foundation
Registration Deadline:  Tuesday September 28, 2010
Fee: $99 (includes workbook)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Unit 101 of the Applied Arabic Studies Course is designed to provide tangible cognitive and communicative grounding to students who are new to the Arabic language as well as to those who may have had some prior technical exposure. This unit will also serve as an introduction to units 102 and 103 of the program.

In this series of interactive sessions, students will be thoroughly engaged by the instructor using multiple methods to establish a foundation for speech and comprehension.

COURSE FOCUS

The areas of primary focus include:

  • Parts of Speech—understanding the basic structure of the language
  • Vocabulary—building a relevant terminology, word recognition, and comprehension  
  • Sentence Formation—learning how to correctly assemble words and phrases into complete sentences that will prove useful in everyday communication

 COURSE PREREQUISITES

  • The ability to read and write vowelized Arabic without difficulty
  • Knowledge of at least thirty to fifty Arabic words with their meanings

INSTRUCTOR

Abdul Aziz Pippin was born and raised in Georgia, where he first began his study of the Arabic language as a teenager. He pursued further studies in Yemen, Mauritania, and Morocco, focusing on Arabic grammar, rhetoric, and literature. Since 1998, he has been teaching Arabic in institutes and private schools, as well as translating on a freelance basis. In 2001, he founded the Salik Institute, a night school program in the Washington, DC area offering multi-layered and holistic Arabic courses for adults. In 2005 he began translating and editing full time for Halabi Publications in the Netherlands, with three titles already published and eight more forthcoming.

HOW TO REGISTER

To pre-register for the course please email: appliedarabic@risalah.ca

All registrations will be confirmed upon payment at the Risalah Foundation premises Wednesday Sept. 29th at 7:30pm.