CSUSM students of Arabic

Children's bilingual books

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How many donkeys? : an Arabic counting tale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah ; illustrations by Carol Liddiment.
Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2009.
ISBN 2008056047 Library of Congress

Manual Transliteration Systems I have used

2009-11-08T06:59:00.000-08:00

Arabic:: Library of Congress , International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (scroll to yellow), Foreign Service Institute (page 13 of Smith's 1969 Modern Written Arabic)
YIVO for Yiddish and Hebrew

Persian: SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center LARC transliteration system and Dr. Atefeh Oliai's variations on this

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Russian: IPA

American Sign Language (ASL): SignWriting as used by researchers at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA)

Handling special characters

Embedding IPA and non-Latin characters so they display on a screen using Unicode

on-line dictionaries

2009-08-16T02:13:00.000-07:00

Tamazight spoken in the Kelaa Mgouna/Boumalen Dades region

California's Annual Arab film festival

2008-09-03T20:01:00.000-07:00

On Opening Night, October 16th 2008, the 2008 Arab Film Festival Jury announced the recipients of the Noor Awards at the Castro Theater (in green)

In SF, SJ, and LA * 12th Annual Arab Film Festival * 16-28 October 2008 http://www.aff.org/AFF_2008_film_list.pdf (text below)

FEATURE FILMS: FICTION
All My Life (Dir. Maher Sabry / Egypt, USA / 2008 / 120min)
Amours D' Enfants (Dir. Fares Khalil / Lebanon / 2008 / 107min)
Bahraini Tale (Dir. Bassam Al Thawadi / Bahrain / 2007 / 96min)
Burned Hearts (Dir. Ahmed El Maanouni / Morocco / 2007 / 84min)
Captain Abu Raed (Dir. Amin Matalqa / Jordan / 2007 / 110min)
Falling from Earth (Dir. Chadi Zeneddine / Lebanon / 2007 / 70min)
Four Girls (Dir. Hassin Al Halibi / Bahrain / 2008 / 144min)
Out of Coverage (Dir. Abdellatif Abdulhamid / Syria / 2008 / 100min) - Not in Competition
Paloma Delight (Dir. Nadir Mokneche/ Algeria / 2007/ 134min) Noor Award for Best Feature Fiction
The President's Chef (Dir. Saeed Hamed / Egypt / 2008 / 150min) - Not in Competition
Samira's Garden (Dir. Latif Lahlou / Morocco / 2007 / 110min)
Seventh Heaven (Dir. Saad Hendawy / Egypt / 2008 / 100min)
The Shadow of Silence (Dir. Abdullah Al Muheisen / Saudi Arabia / 2006 / 96min)
The TV Is Coming (Dir. Moncef Dhouib / Tunisia / 2006 / 95min) - Not in Competition
Waiting for Pasolini (Dir. Daoud Aoulad-Syad / Morocco / 2007 / 100 min) -OPENING NIGHT - Not in Competition
The Yellow House (Dir. Amor Hakkar / Algeria / 2008 / 84min) Special Mention for Best Feature Fiction

FEATURE FILMS: DOCUMENTARIES
33 Days (Dir. Mai Masri / Lebanon / 2007 / 70 min)
Amina (Dir. Khadija Al-Salami / Yemen / 2008 / 52min)
Dancers (Dir. Celame Barge / Egypt / 2007 / 51min)
Gaza Souvenirs (Dir. Samuel Albaric / France / 2006 / 46min)
Life after the Fall (Dir. Kasim Abid / Iraq / Documentary / 2008 / 155 min) Noor Award for Best Feature Documentary
Made in Egypt (Dir. Karim Goury / Egypt / France / 2006 / 69min)
Memory of a Woman (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2008 / 52min)
Recycle (Dir. Mahmoud Al-Massad / Jordan / 2007 / 78 min)
Refugees for Life (Dir. Hady Zaccak / Lebanon / 2008 / 48min)
Roundabout Chatila (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2005 / 50min) - Not in Competition
Seeing through the Sand (Dir. Noor Al-Dabbagh / Saudi Arabia / 2008 / 50min)
Slingshot Hip Hop (Dir. Jackie Salloum / Palestine / 2008 / 89min)
Storm from the South (Dir. Walid Al Awadi / Kuwait, UAE / 2006 / 52min)
Waiting for the Day (Dir. Meyar al Roumi / France, Syria / 2003 / 50min) - Not in Competition
War, Love, God, Madness (Dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji / Iraq / 2008 / 72 min) - Not in Competition
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille (Dir. Shara K. Lange. / France / 2007 / 58min)

SHORT FILMS: FICTION
Alienation (Dir. Fady Copty / Palestine / 2007 / 8min)
Arafat & I (Dir. Mahdi Fleifel/ Palestine, UK / 2008 / 15min)
At the Day's End (Dir. Sherif El Bendary / Egypt / 2007 / 15min)
Before the Wind Blows (Dir. Samer Najari / Canada / 2006 / 18min)
Bint Mariam (Dir. Saeed Salmeen Al Murry / UAE / 2008 / 25min)

The Cistern (Dir. Lassaad Oueslati / Tunisia / 2006 /12min) - Not in Competition
Clean Hands Dirty Soap (Dir. Karim Fanous / Egypt / 2007 / 25min) Noor Award for Best Short Fiction
Dead Fish (Dir. Malik Amara / Tunisia / 2008 / 19min)
Flou (Dir. Youssef Britel / Morocco / 2007 / 6min)
Free to Fly (Dir. Sajeda Abousaif & Alabbas Saed / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
I Am Ready (Dir. Omar Saleh / Jordan / 2008 / 12min)
Karma (Dir. Faisal Alibrahim / Kuwait / 2007 / 10min)
Messaoud (Dir. Omar Mouldouira / Morocco / 2006 / 8 min)
The Maid (Dir. Heidi Saman / Egypt / 2008 / 19min)
Neighbors (Dir. Gina Asfour / Palestine / 2008 / 13 min)
Noor (Dir. Eyas Salman / Palestine / 2008 / 20 min)
Pickled (Dir. Razi Najar / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)
Tenbak (Dir. Abdullah Hassan Ahmed / UAE / 2008 / 26min) Special Mention for Best Short Fiction
Tough Crowd (Dir. Iman Zawahry / USA / 2007 / 9min)
The Shooter (Dir. Ihab Jadallah / Palestine / 2007 / 7min)
The View (Dir. Omar Saleh / Jordan / 2008 / 16min)
A Winter Day's Visits (Dir. Ismaeel Hamdy / Egypt / 2007 / 37min)
Ya Hala Wood (Dir. Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the School (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2008 / 10min)
The Young Lady and the Teacher (Dir. Mohamed Nadif / Morocco / 2007 / 16min)

SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTARIES
Against the Light (Dir. Koutaiba al Janabi / UK, Czech Republic / 2007 / 15min)
A Candle for the Shabandar Café (Dir. Emad Ali / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) - Not in Competition
Deadly Playground (Dir. Katia Saleh / Lebanon / 2007 / 23min)
Doctor Nabil (Dir. Ahmed Jabbar / Iraq / 2007 / 15min) - Not in Competition
Leaving (Dir. Bahram Al Zuhairi / Iraq / 2007 / 23min) - Not in Competition
Merely a Smell (Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2007 / 11min)
Mimoune (Dir. Gonzalo Ballester / Spain/ Morocco / 2006 / 11min)
Nights and Days (Dir. Lamia Joreige / Lebanon / 2007 / 17min)
Not My Turn Yet (Dir. Rabee Zureikat & Hazim Bitar / Jordan / 2008 / 6min)
Open Eyes (Dir. Jana Sintschnig / USA / 2007 / 7min)
Out of the Frame (Dir. Nizar Annadawi / Iraq / 2007 / 22min) Noor Award for Best Short Documentary
A Palestinian Mural (Dir. Norma Sayage / USA / 2008 / 12 min)
(Posthumous) (Dir. Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2007 / 28min)
A Stranger in His Own Country (Dir. Hassanain Al Hani / Iraq / 2007 / 10min) - Not in Competition
When Walls Speak (Dir. May Odeh / Palestine / 2008 / 16 min)

On-line (free) courses

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Peace Corps audio files: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/index.cfm#arabic

Jordanian Arabic
Download the transcript of this lesson (pdf–265 KB)
Lesson 1: Greetings & Personal Identification
Lesson 2: Physical State
Lesson 3: Family
Lesson 4: Useful Expressions
Lesson 5: Communication Difficulties
Lesson 6: Food
Lesson 7: Directions
Lesson 8: Numbers & Money
Lesson 9: Question Words
Lesson 10: Time SenseS

ubscribe to the Peace Corps' Jordanian Arabic lessons by pasting the XML file into your podcast software.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/arabic.xml
Additional Resources:
Lesson: Serious Doodling
Holiday: Eid al-Fitr

"pharyngeal fricative" is not an expletive

2008-07-30T22:29:00.000-07:00

____IPA___decimal__hex
ح__ħ_____295____0127
voiceless pharyngeal fricative

In English, try saying "hot sauce" to get the right /h/.

references:
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in Unicode (Wells)
http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/a/Arabic_language.htm move to dialects section

Downloadable software

2008-05-07T20:13:00.000-07:00

http://totalrecalllearning.com/index.pacq (free)
Topics include:
Checkpoint Operations
Greetings
Colors
Days of the Week
Command
Months
Directions
Parts of the Day
House Search
Meals of the Day
Instructions
Relatives
Intelligence Operations
Grammar
Military Rank
Engineering Words
Military Words
Finance
Patrol
Medical Services
Tactical Questioning
Medical Terms
Warnings
Cultural Do's & Don'ts
Weapons
And more!

Arabic videos available from the library

2008-04-11T16:58:00.000-07:00

San Diego Public Library:

North UC
Zaman [videorecording] : the man from the reeds
from Iraq
DVD ARA 791.4372/ZAMAN

call number:DVD 914.9504/RICK ID:31336076399428 Rick Steves'. Greece, Turkey, Israel & Egypt 2000-2007 [videorecording] / Back Door Productions in association with American Public Television and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Steves, Rick, 1955- due:9/29/2008,23:59

Practice reading

2008-03-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Omniglot's Arabic alphabet

In how many countries is Arabic the official language?

2008-01-08T11:48:00.000-08:00

It depends who you ask!

Wikipedia: Arabic is the official language in 26 countries:
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman
Palestinian Territories, Qatar. Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan
Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen

Georegetown University: Arabic is the official language of 20 countries ranging from northwest Africa to the Arabian gulf. Those countries include: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. [I count 19 here --mkg]

Grossmont College: Arabic is the official language of 22 countries. [Not enumerated --mkg]

Certificate and degree programs in San Diego

2008-01-08T11:25:00.000-08:00

I'm writing this list as I find the links; feel free to add.
National University
SDSU
Grossmont College Spring 2008 classes language, CCS 147 MIDDLE EAST HISTORY & CULTURE
AA Curriculum and Certificate

Classes available:
UCSD
USD
Palomar College
Fall 2009
ARABIC
~ARAB 101A
ARABIC IA
(3.0 units)
71797
TTh
3-5:50pm
NS-135
SAMIR F
LEC
(Class Number 71797 meets 8/25-10/15)
~ARAB 101B
ARABIC IB
(3.0 units)
Prerequisite: ARAB 101A or one year of high school Arabic
71798
TTh
3-5:50pm
NS-135
SAMIR F
LEC
(Class Number 71798 meets 10/22-12/17)
~ARAB 201A
ARABIC IIIA
(3.0 units)
Prerequisite: ARAB 102B or three years of high school Arabic
73896
MW
5-7:50pm
BE-5
JABARI M
LEC
(Class Number 73896 meets 8/24-10/19)
~ARAB 201B
ARABIC IIIB
(3.0 units)
Prerequisite: ARAB 201A
73897
MW
5-7:50pm
BE-5
JABARI M
LEC
(Class Number 73897 meets 10/21-12/14)
Miramar College

date, text, and translation tools

2007-12-31T13:11:00.000-08:00

convert dates between Islamic and Common era
convert dates between Noahide and Common era

Sakhr's 128 character translation[1] ترجمة

music and broadcasts

2007-12-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

Internet Broadcasts
The site contains news in Arabic about Israel reshet dalethيحتوي الموقع على أخبار باللغة العربية عن إسرائيل (some music, too!)
Israel's 15-minute daily broadcast in Moroccan Arabic

MUSIC

From amr diab : habibi ya nor el ayn
arabic Video clip arab free [1] فيديو كليب
عربى اغاني افلام عربية
Arabic Song Lyrics and Translations With over 585 songs of over 135 artists from all over the Arabic speaking world in translation

Social and cultural activities in San Diego

2007-12-18T22:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.houseofpalestine.org/HOP/events.asp
August 17, 2008 from 12-5 PM LAWN PROGRAM outdoors in Balboa Park at the House of Pacific Relations.

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2008/jul/20/6890/

Essentially Non-Political
Downtown Film San Diego Public Library
Sunday, July 20 - 2 p.m.
Admission: Free
820 E StreetSan Diego, CA 92101619-236-5800
Israeli director Ido Haar focuses on "a group of young Palestinians who live and hide in the hills around the community they are helping to build in Israel...they hide from police at night while working on construction during the day." See 9 Star Hotel, in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. 619-236-5800.

Social club for those wishing to practice Arabic: monthly meetings
SAMEDA: The San Diego Middle Eastern Dance Association is a non-profit promoting research and discussion of Middle Eastern dance and music. Middle Eastern Dance includes "belly dance" or "Raqs Sharki" (Egyptian style belly dance), modern and traditional components of Egyptian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Iraqi, Iranian, Turkish, Uzbekistani, East Indian, Balinese, and even Chinese dance. weekly events
The San Diego Folk Dance Center has Middle Eastern dancing each Saturday morning.

Al-Awda San Diego periodic Palestinian political and cultural events

Events in 2008
18th Jewish film festival--Arabic language films:
[trailer] Director Ronit Avni's Encounter Point (USA, 2006, 89 min., BetaSP, Arabic, English/Hebrew with subtitles; Categories: Documentary, Arab/Israeli Issues) most humorous line: the quickest formula for peace is that everyone needs to buy cigarettes from the other side!

Presidents' Weekend: Belly Dancer of the Universe competition in Long Beach, CA

Books and dictionaries

2007-12-13T14:41:00.000-08:00

From the San Diego Public Library:

call number:J 020.92/STAMATY ID:31336070255600 Alia's mission : saving the books of Iraq : inspired by a true story / Mark Alan Stamaty. Stamaty, Mark Alan
A graphic novel in black-and-white in English

From CSUSM
The Barahona collection:
Spanish / Arabic / Hebrew
http://csbs.csusm.edu/csbs/www.book.book_detail?p_name_0=15086&lang=SP

Spanish / Arabic / Berber

From the California Cicuit library system:
AUTHOR: Gregory, Manju. Jill wa-s?aqa al-f?a.s?uliy?a = Jill CALL NO: ARA JE GR

Vendors:
ARABIC LEARNING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, Halalco Supermarket in Falls Church, VA

questions that came up during review for final (and answers)

2007-12-04T13:11:00.001-08:00

(1) Fez is a Moroccan city.
Is the word "Moroccan" a definite or indefinite noun? Does it take one damma at the end?

(2) your roommate
does the possessive come on the noun or the adjective or do we just use laka?

(3) zhdan (very)
where does the shadda fall? What vowel is on the dal?

Arab American comedy tours the US

2007-10-30T22:49:00.000-07:00

Tuesday August 26th, 2008
the Foundation for Fighting Blindness will be sponsoring "Comics Without Borders" at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, California. Please come and help a worthy cause, and laugh while you're at it. The line-up of comedians is a great one:
Peter the Persian, Max Amini, Reza Peyk,Ahmed Ahmed, Sebastian Maniscalco, And a special surprise guest!
General Admission @ 7:30pm followed by an afterparty
Tickets are sold by phone : (310) 207-2098 and from Victoria's website, which has a photo of the performers.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mideastam.html
The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour
Featuring comics Maz Jobrani (Iranian American), Aron Kader (Palestinian American) and Ahmed Ahmed (Egyptian American) with special guest Dean Obeidallah (Arab American) In a time when East and West do not seem to understand each other, top stand-up comics of Middle Eastern descent Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader, and Maz Jobrani take it upon themselves to single-handedly bridge the gap with an original comedy tour that has become one of the hottest concert tickets in the country. 2007. 64 min. DVD 7868

[comedy] Axis of Evil - Ahmed Ahmed ! 10 minutes of English language humor from an LA-based professional entertainer; might be too self-deprecating for your taste-in fact, all humor might be too self-deprecating for your taste.
posted aug 2007

258 more on youtube for Axis of Evil

computation and writing

2007-10-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

keyboard lay out (lots of ads)
Chen's typing aid that can be used to send Arabic email from any keyboard

On line dictionaries
sakhr has vowels

phonetics of Arabic

2007-09-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf The international phonetic alphabet (IPA) can be used to transliterate Arabic

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html# Articulatory anatomy of Spanish and English offers a 2-D model of English and Spanish speech segments (phonemes), along with relevant video of native speaker utterances
This link was presented at length in class by the instructor to demonstrate the articulation of the /x/, the voiceless velar fricative, which is common to Arabic and Castillian Spanish.

Shared words (cognates)

2007-09-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

لحشيش Ha, fat-Ha, shin, kasra, shin, sukun (Lesson four, last word of shin writing exercise)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_influence_on_Spanish#List_of_words_of_Arabic_origin Spanish cognates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_influence_on_Spanish#See_also wikipedia lists of cognates in English, French, Portuguese and other language

TBD Hindi,

published links for Hebrew: mid-east web

I can't tell if this popular Yemenite chanteuse is singing in Arabic or Hebrew or both in this 1978 black and white:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xNTzlFSk0

songs to learn the alif baa by

2007-09-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9kq0UMDdY Each letter is displayed in turn as Malaysian children sing a ditty with the name of the letters

English lyrics inter-mixed with names of the letters and alliterative key-words in Arabic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXq0Isc1aNE Cat Stevens wrote this religiously oriented song for teaching his children
Here are the words written out: http://imdad.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/lyrics-4/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nky0cs3VYM animal sounds and video make this a delight for small children

Follow-up to classroom questions on culture, current events, and

2007-09-11T21:57:00.000-07:00

Q: Five is for Hamsa; what is the story behind this symbol?
A: In a google search of images (for example http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=hamsa++%22evil+eye%22+blessing+OR+fatima) you can pick up some lovely images of jewelry for sale.
Add your favorite image searches for hamsa:

When you look around at the webpages for Hamsa, you'll find some musical groups and a human rights group for journalists that have decided to use this venerated name.

From a Sept lecture:

Q: How many wives did the late King Hussein (of blessed memory or peace be upon him) of Jordan have?
A: According to his official web-site, the King had four wives.

http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/biography.html

"King Hussein married Queen Noor on June 15, 1978. They have two sons -Hamzah and Hashem- and two daughters -Iman and Raiyah. His Majesty is also survived by three sons -Abdullah, Faisal and Ali- and five daughters -Alia, Zein, Aisha, Haya and Abeer- from three previous marriages. Toward the end of his life, King Hussein became the proud grandfather of a growing number of grandchildren."

Here's the intro to his official biography:
"King Hussein bin Talal (1935-1999)

"His Majesty King Hussein bin Talal, the father of modern Jordan, will always be remembered as a leader who guided his country through strife and turmoil to become an oasis of peace, stability and moderation in the Middle East. Among Jordanians, his memory is cherished as the inspiration for Jordan's climate of openness, tolerance and compassion. Known to his people as Al-Malik Al-Insan ("The Humane King"), King Hussein established a legacy which promises to guide Jordan for many years to come.

"At the time of his passing on February 7, 1999, His Majesty was the longest serving executive head of state in the world. Of great significance to Muslims throughout the world, the late King Hussein was also the forty-second generation direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

"...King Hussein’s formal accession to the throne [was] on May 2, 1953, when he assumed his constitutional powers after reaching the age of eighteen, according to the Islamic calendar.

This story of King Hussein's shiva call during the Clinton era is Michelle's favorite. It is also reported in Sept 2001 Middle East Review of International Affairs Here's a more stable link, but you have to be patient enough to load the pdf file: http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2001/issue3/scham-lucas.pdf
"The king, meanwhile, in a moment etched indelibly in virtually every Israeli memory, came to Israel to visit the homes of the dead children, during the seven-day Jewish mourning ceremony known as the shiva. According to tradition, mourners sit on the floors or on low stools to express their grief. Accompanied by television cameras, the king visited each home that would have him, sitting on the floor with the mourners. Israelis were touched by the human gesture of sharing their grief, which they had never before seen from an Arab leader." (from p. 12, "NORMALIZATION" AND "ANTI-NORMALIZATION" IN JORDAN: THE PUBLIC DEBATE By Paul L. Scham and Russell E. Lucas)

Q: What is the name of the Christian Science Monitor journalist who was formerly in Iraq?
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Carroll

recent articles about her ordeal: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Jill+Caroll%22+iraq+2007
On assignment in N. Africa in 2007: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0412/p06s01-wome.html

Meanwhile, Scott has agreed to helm "The Invisible World" for Paramount, based on a treatment by Ignatius that was scripted by Dana Stevens. That pic covers the abduction of a female journalist in Iraq. Could this be related?

Resources from other Arabic language courses

2007-09-07T15:52:00.000-07:00

CSUSM's LLC page

Palomar College's

Arabic internet resource page.

Georgetown University's Arabic and Islamic Studies program has a page with links.

The University of Georgia offers a major, a minor, and a study abroad program. This page has also has links to Scholarships for Arabic Study Abroad; Online Arabic Books and Downloadable Arabic Library; On-line Arabic Bookstores; Arabic Computing; Arabic Language and Culture Links; Transliteration of Arabic: Rules and Fonts; and Other Islamic Languages Resources.

bjmaclean's lesson in creating a Qasida, as found in Ancient Arabic Poetry

http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/index.html Princeton Online Arabic Poetry Project
This project was created by the CIT Academic Technology Services ATS PLACE (http://www.princeton.edu/newmedia/) with the generous support of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.princeton.edu/online-poetry/). An Arabic module was added in 2000.

http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu:8080/Materials/Arabic.jsp SDSU's Summer Institute requires advanced students to take an OPI (oral proficiency interview).

Newsletters: http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/newsletter.php

"LARC at San Diego State University (SDSU), is one of fifteen Title VI funded Language Resource Centers (LRCs). The LRCs were established by Congress in 1989. Their purpose is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign and second languages in the United States."

Arabic Language Learning Resources

2007-09-07T09:01:00.000-07:00

LanguageGuide's عربي spoken and written vocabulary
Sajida Abu Ali's An Internet Hotlist on The Arabic language
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Folder.do?packID=24753A rainbow of colors
The numbers 0 to 10 (Don't be confused by the numerals on the left-hand side of the word-list!)

Global Linguist's Arabic folder for building spoken and written vocabulary (no fee at this time)

An example in Arabic of the Sheltered Initiation Language Learning (SILL), created by Zev bar-Lev of San Diego State University.

HW for coming Tues

2007-09-07T08:47:00.000-07:00

waajib (obligatory homework)

p. 45 Drill 3
p. 46 Drill 5
p. 48 Drill 6
p. 48 Drill 7

thaanawi (th is voiceless)
(optional homework)

practice saying 10 colors in Arabic
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Folder.do?packID=24754 vocab table of contents
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/List.do?packID=24758 the color package

aShaabii, assalaamu 3alaykum

2007-09-06T12:56:00.000-07:00

"Greetings to the friends" from one of
{salaam 3ala al aShaab; aShaabii, assalaamu 3alaykum; aShaabii, salaamu Allahi ta3aala 3alaykum wa barakaatuhu}
where S is the big 's' or saad and 3 is the sheep sound or 'ayn.

Course Arabic 101 (CRN 42612)
Arabic 102 (CRN 42613)

Fall 2007 TWTh 5:30PM - 8:15PM Instructor Mohamed Jabari

Fall 2007 W 3PM - 5PM, Th 12-1 Tutor Dina H. appointments:
https://lynx.csusm.edu/langlab/

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:k9QuUiqQaicJ:www.csusm.edu/languages/+arabic+site:http://www.csusm.edu/languages/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us SPRING 2008: Arabic 201 – Schedule TBD

The first time you schedule an appointment with Dina, you should go to the bottom of the tutee agreement and sign the agreement.

Midterm: Thurs. 20 Sept 2007
Final : Weds. 17 OCT 2007
potluck(s) : TBD