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Continue developing your Arabic through familiar topics such as family, your home, work or retirement, languages and hobbies. You will learn to exchange more personal information, ask simple follow-up questions and complete basic personal details forms.

Building on approximately 20 hours of prior study, you will also develop your understanding of how Arabic letters connect in different positions and strengthen your pronunciation and reading of short words and sentences.

DELIVERY MODE

Language courses are offered in two delivery modes:

• Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
• Online: via Zoom or Microsoft Teams

Please check the delivery mode listed before enrolling, as some classes are face-to-face and others are online.

TEXTBOOK

• Tutor supplied material

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Talking about family members
• Saying your address/suburb/city
• Talking about occupation or retirement
• Describing your home
• Talking about languages you speak
• Talking about hobbies and interests
• Asking simple follow-up questions
• Filling in personal details forms

Grammar

• Letter connection in initial/medial/final forms
• Writing direction and spacing
• Possessive suffixes: my / your / his / her
• Nominal sentences with adjectives
• Present tense introduction
• Negation basics
• Singular/plural awareness
• Numbers 11–20

Phonetics

• Accurate production of learned consonants
• Reading syllables smoothly
• Vowel clarity in connected words
• Pronouncing doubled letters (shadda awareness)
• Reading short sentences aloud

Vocabulary

• Family relationships
• Home and rooms
• Jobs and occupations
• Hobbies
• Languages
• Numbers
• Colours
• Everyday objects

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Exchange information about family, home, work, languages and interests.
2. Complete and discuss basic personal details using simple Arabic structures.
3. Read and pronounce short Arabic words and sentences with increasing confidence.