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Levantine Arabic Study Guide for Assignment 2

Five College Center for the Study of World Languages – Spoken Arabic Courses

Study guide version: August 2014

Unit I– “Welcome to Damascus” Functions B – C and Review Function A

1. Work through all the textbook materials related to Functions B and C. Listen to the audio. Practice repeating after the speakers. Put down your book and try to use the phrases and expressions without looking at your textbook.

2. Develop a method for tracking and reviewing vocabulary. Practice vocabulary by going from English cues into Levantine. Practice using the vocabulary words in sentences and expressions. Memorize all the vocabulary for Functions A, B, and C.

3. Review the greetings and phrases on LangMedia: Levantine Audio Comparisons: Greetings and Getting Acquainted Phrases. Pay attention to the differences among regional dialects.

4. Work your way through the videos of various greetings situations. Listen to the videos first without looking at the Arabic transcript or translation. Listen several times to see what you can understand from context and your previous knowledge of Arabic. Then study the transcript and translation. Practice repeating after the speakers. Practice where you can talk to yourself and improvise similar dialogues.

o LangMedia: Arabic in Jordan: Greetings and Partings – videos and audio

o LangMedia: Levantine Arabic Situation Videos: Greetings

Formal Greetings

Good Morning

Good Evening

Female Friends Greeting

Male and Female Friends Greeting – use the special video comprehension guide

5. Function B practice: Describe out loud the country you are from using the adjectives ion page 39

6. Function B practice: Describe 5 countries you have traveled to or would like to travel to.

7. Function C practice: Throughout the day think about how your would greet the people you meet on campus. When you run into a friend, consider how you would do that in the Levantine dialect. Do the same when you meet a group or people, your professor, etc. Consider the tine of day it is and whether it is a formal or informal situation.

8. Review and practice all the vocabulary you have learned in the Conversation and Functions A – C.

9. Prepare the role plays and tasks below for conversation session.

Prepare for role plays and tasks in conversation session:

• Be prepared to create dialogues about meeting on the first day of school. You may meet classmates, professors and administrators. They may be male, female, or a group of people. In your conversation session practice greeting all the types of people you may encounter on your first day of school.

• Be prepared to discuss greetings etiquette in Levantine Arabic speaking countries. In what situations do you greet and how. When do you shake hands, when do you not shake hands? How do greetings differ in terms of age, status, level of familiarity, gender, etc. With whom do you shake hands? With whom do you not? What greetings are reserved for family or close friends? What is appropriate in formal situations and people you do not know well?

• Be prepared to practice exchanging pleasantries and to discuss with your conversation partner the role of exchanging greetings and pleasantries in establishing rapport with other and for maintaining good relationships with others.

• Be prepared to create dialogues introducing yourself to new group of international classmates. Imagine introducing yourself in Levantine Arabic to each of them and how they might introduce themselves to you in Levantine Arabic. How would you ask and answer questions about where you and others from? How would you make appropriate small talk about where everyone is from and about each other’s countries.

• Be prepared to role play a greeting, conversation and parting between a taxi driver and a customer. During your ride the driver asks about the country and city you are from and what you do.

• Be prepared to describe other people by name, nationality, country, occupation, marital status and to say something complimentary about their country.

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