On-line (free) courses

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

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Additional Resources:
Lesson: Serious Doodling
Holiday: Eid al-Fitr

Arabic videos available from the library

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

music and broadcasts

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

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

phonetics of Arabic

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.

Resources from other Arabic language courses

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

1. LanguageGuide's عربي spoken and written vocabulary
   
2. Sajida Abu Ali's An Internet Hotlist on The Arabic language
   
3. http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Folder.do?packID=24753A rainbow of colors
   
4. 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)




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