Accessible Arabic
Arabic for understanding the Qur'an and hadith. Six levels, Sundays, in person.
Accessible Arabic helps you understand the Qur'an in its own language. The course stages shown below take you from your first letters to reading a scholar's commentary and naming the grammar in it.
Level 1A has two eight-week parts. Later levels have eight units over 16 weeks, taught as two eight-week semesters. Classes meet in person on Sundays.
Arabic levels
Level 1A, part 1
4 units over 8 weeks
Read and pronounce Arabic words, including the adhan and tashahhud from the text.
Textbook: Let's Begin to Read Arabic, Abdur Rahim
Level 1A, part 2
4 units over 8 weeks
Read longer Arabic passages with greater confidence and hold brief classroom conversations.
Textbook: Let's Begin to Read Arabic, Abdur Rahim
Level 1B
8 units over 16 weeks
Read two- and three-word sentences, use the Hans Wehr dictionary, and recognize 40 common words.
Level 1C
8 units over 16 weeks
Read four- to six-word sentences and recognize common plurals in the Qur'an.
Level 2
8 units over 16 weeks
Read longer passages, identify verb forms and roots, and translate with a dictionary.
Level 3
8 units over 16 weeks
Name the grammar, parse a sentence (i'rab), and read a scholarly discussion in Arabic.
Textbook: Nahw Wadih
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