Program
Mission Statement
Our mission is to ease the process of learning Arabic.
Objectives
To teach students the (classical standard formal modern) Arabic “Fusha” starting from the alphabet and ending with tajweed, eloquence and poetry.
To teach Arabic as a foreign language to students from all age groups.
To enable students to access the beautiful Arabic culture, its texts, poetry, and legends without intermediate.
To enable the students to understand the holy Qur’an which is the exact words of God the creator of the universe in its original language without translation or interpretation.
To maintain an academic environment to excel in Arabic and to develop its uses for the different modern applications (Religious, Social, Business, Media…..etc.)
To create tools to enable self studying program 100% over the internet.
To create a milieu to practice Arabic as a mother tongue�before the existence of the colloquial language.
To enable people willing to travel to Arab countries to integrate easily by providing samples of Arabic life stile (music, fashions, food, values, interests)
To encourage students to join the credited Arabic programs at universities
To create bridges between communities
Program
The program is divided into different levels (10 regular courses or 20 intensive courses). Level 1 is for beginners who have no prior knowledge of Arabic. Last level is for students who can speak and write in Arabic and are preparing to take the secondary school (grade 12) Arabic exam of any Arab country.
By browsing the curriculum of the courses. The new students can have a general estimation about their entry level. However, new students enrolled in the program should take the TOAFL exam (Test Of Arabic as Foreign Language) in order to categorize them based on their results. Fees may apply to cover the time and arrangements to prepare and to correct the exams. Students willing to enrol into the first level do not have to take the TOAFL exam. For the old students, passing the exam of the previous level is sufficient to determine their proficiency in the Arabic language.
Commitment
This program is designed to craft the student into a native Arabic speaker.� Student should not rely only on the attendance to advance.� It is required to spend (15-45 minutes for the first course) or (15-30 minutes for the next courses) of self study per day to master Arabic in the shortest time.� The more time you put, the faster result you have. These suggestions are made based on the experience of part time students who graduated successfully by this program taking in consideration that their commitments toward the other courses or part time jobs as well.
The self study time required for 10 semesters or over three years of part time Arabic study is:
(15 min/day) x (7 days/week) x (13 weeks/course) x (10 courses)= 230 hours (super student)
(30 min/day) x (7 days/week) x (13 weeks/course) x (10 courses)= 460 hours (fast student)
(45 min/day) x (7 days/week) x (13 weeks/course) x (10 courses)= 680 hours (regular student)
Self study at home is required every day.� Students cannot study the required weekly amount of time in one long session on the weekend. The practice has to be daily on short sessions (15 minutes minimum) in order to have better results.
Method
Arabic is a rich regular language. It has rules and a minimum number of exceptions when compared to other languages. Studying grammar since the beginning is a must as one advances in learning this tongue.
This is obligatory in order to reduce the time and efforts needed to master this Semitic language. Some other methods attempt for commercial reasons to deliver first to the students the ability of speaking by relying on the students’ memory. This approach leads the students to feel good at the beginning but eventually they discover that it is impossible to advance in Arabic. After a while they withdraw because of the huge number of vocabularies accumulated since 3000 years of the oldest spoken living language up today, and because Arabic uses a structure different from European languages.
Learning grammar is a must, it enables the students to derive words from roots so they do not need to use their memory. By knowing one root we can at least derive ten derived words. Grammar helps also conjugation that there is no way to deal in life without it.
This method requires not to rush to speak because the structure of the language is not known yet to students. Students learn grammar since the beginning side by side with other issues like the alphabet, the pronunciation, and vocabularies. This method has proved itself with millions of students who learn Arabic successfully to access the holy Qur’an along 1429 years up today.
Tools
Wonderful artistic texts, poems, songs, presentations, films, cartoons, and educational CD’s are available for the students in order to provide them with an easy interactive way to work independently at home, to repeat the audio visuals as mush as they needed, and to learn vocabularies in context.
The students are responsible to memorize the given vocabularies and rules during the week to be able to apply them in the next class. The time in class is very precious and they need to come prepared to understand the new class, otherwise they will waste the time and the concentration while remembering the previous class, or thinking about the meaning of the words used in the given examples.
We are guaranteeing quick results, but the cooperation of the students is required.
Quizzes and Exams
There are “closed book” quizzes at the beginning of each class to revise the previous lesson, and to gauge the student’s efforts during the week. And at the end of the course there will be an “open book” exam. Students are informed about their progress during the semester.
The related websites are:
1- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arabic_rc/
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