ARBC 290 - SLP Levantine Colloquial Arabic: Jordanian and Palestinian

This is a Shared Languages Program (SLP) Course taught by Professor Sami Alkyam at Allegheny College and taken through Zoom video conferencing technology. It will be taught from August 26 to December 7, 2020.

Arabic 290 introduces a specific variety of Arabic, i.e. Levantine Arabic. By focusing on the three overreaching groups of dialectical variations Jordanian, Palestinian Urban, and Palestinian/Jordanian Rural dialects, students develop listening/speaking and conversational skills in spoken Arabic at a beginning-level proficiency. Throughout the semester, students develop their speaking skills to talk about the following topics: self, family, relatives, friends, hobbies, daily activities, surroundings (home, school, city, country, etc.). Moreover, students acquire basic conversational skills in certain social occasions such as exchanging pleasantries; asking for, offering, accepting, and rejecting things.