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This Iraque Arabic course consists of 12 modules and speaking exercises with a total of 48 lessons altogether and at the end of these modules, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in Iraqui including the grammatical features and vocabulary of all modules.
Lesson 1: Greeting People
Lesson 2: Meeting People
Lesson 3: Inviting and Visiting People
Lesson 4: A Visit to an Office
Lesson 5: Asking and Telling Time
Lesson 6: Asking and Telling Dates
Lesson 7: Biographical Data
Lesson 8: Jobs and Occupations
Lesson 9: Asking for Directions
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 1, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 1: Greeting People
Lesson 2: Meeting People
Lesson 3: Inviting and Visiting People
Lesson 4: A Visit to an Office
Part 1. Given 10 recorded Syrian sentences, the student selects the best English translation from four printed choices. Minimum acceptable performance is 70 percent.
Part 2. Given 10 recorded Syrian sentences, the s...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 2, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 5: Asking and Telling Time
Lesson 6: Asking and Telling Dates
Lesson 7: Biographical Data
Lesson 8: Jobs and Occupations...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 3, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 9: Asking for Directions
Lesson 10: Using Public Transportation
Lesson 11: Making Phone Calls
Lesson 12: Health Problems...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 4, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 13: Eating Out
Lesson 14: A Visit to Alexandria
Lesson 15: Shopping
Lesson 16: A Tour of Cairo...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 5, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 17: Army Organization, Part I
Lesson 18: Army Organization, Part II
Lesson 19: Air Force
Lesson 20: Navy
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 6, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 21: Military Training and Services
Lesson 22: Ground Force Activity
Lesson 23: Air Field Activity
Lesson 24: Port Activity...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 7, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 25: Radio Communications
Lesson 26: Map Reading
Lesson 27: Interrogation
Lesson 28: Liaison Officer...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 8, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 29: Military Uniforms and Equipment
Lesson 30: Heavy Weapons and Vehicles
Lesson 31: Combat and Transport Aircraft
Lesson 32: Warships and Submarines...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 9, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 33: Geography
Lesson 34: Natural Resources
Lesson 35: Government
Lesson 36: History...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 10, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 37: Religion
Lesson 38: Customs
Lesson 39: Family Structure
Lesson 40: Income and Standard of Living...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 11, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 41: The Press
Lesson 42: Broadcasting
Lesson 43: Literature
Lesson 44: Performing Arts...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Syrian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 7, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 45: Internal Security
Lesson 46: Financial Affairs
Lesson 47: Public Service - Part A
Lesson 48: Liaison Public Service - Part B...
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The DLI Modern Standard Arabic Basic Course consists of eighteen volumes of 143 lessons, a volume on the sound system of Modern Standard Arabic, a volume on the Arabic writing system, an Instructor's Manual, a comprehension drills volume, a grammar notes volume, and an Arabic-English glossary. It was developed and produced by the US Defense Language Institute (DLI).
The course is designed for use in a full time training program consisting of six hours of instruction
each day, five days a week. For maximum effectiveness the, course should be taught by qualified Arabic language instructors who are educated...
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The Arabic General courses contains 6 ebooks that cover a wide variety of topics. The books include:
ARABIC STANDARD COURSE ENGLISH GLOSSARY
This book contains a glossary of all sections of the Arabic Standard Course found on the Live Lingua Project.
ARABIC SOUND AND SCRIPT
This course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is designed primarily to develop the student's receptive skills (reading and listening comprehension). While the student will be exposed to production skills (writing and speaking) for motivation and reinforcement purposes, he will not be expected to attain ...
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The DLI Arabic Cultural orientation course is designed to give the students a quick introduction tot he rich and diverse history of the Arabic speaking countries.
The course is made up of two audios that are about 40 minutes long. The Arabic audios go over some basic situations, and how to deal with them, that you may come across in the Middle East.
The audios are purposefully vague as the situations vary from country to country in the region and you may have to deal with different ethnicities with very different traditions....
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 1, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 1: Greeting People
Lesson 2: Meeting People
Lesson 3: Inviting and Visiting People
Lesson 4: A Visit to an Office
Part 1. Given 10 recorded Egyptian sentences, the student selects the best English translation from four printed choices. Minimum acceptable performance is 70 percent.
Part 2. Given 10 recorded Egyptian sentences,...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 2, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 5: Asking and Telling Time
Lesson 6: Asking and Telling Dates
Lesson 7: Biographical Data
Lesson 8: Jobs and Occupations...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 3, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 9: Asking for Directions
Lesson 10: Using Public Transportation
Lesson 11: Making Phone Calls
Lesson 12: Health Problems
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 4, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 13: Eating Out
Lesson 14: A Visit to Alexandria
Lesson 15: Shopping
Lesson 16: A Tour of Cairo...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 5, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 17: Army Organization, Part I
Lesson 18: Army Organization, Part II
Lesson 19: Air Force
Lesson 20: Navy...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 6, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 21: Military Training and Services
Lesson 22: Ground Force Activity
Lesson 23: Air Field Activity
Lesson 24: Port Activity...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 7, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 25: Radio Communications
Lesson 26: Map Reading
Lesson 27: Interrogation
Lesson 28: Liaison Officer...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 8, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 29: Military Uniforms and Equipment
Lesson 30: Heavy Weapons and Vehicles
Lesson 31: Combat and Transport Aircraft
Lesson 32: Warships and Submarines...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 9, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 33: Geography
Lesson 34: Natural Resources
Lesson 35: Government
Lesson 36: History...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 10, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 37: Religion
Lesson 38: Customs
Lesson 39: Family Structure
Lesson 40: Income and Standard of Living...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 11, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 41: The Press
Lesson 42: Broadcasting
Lesson 43: Literature
Lesson 44: Performing Arts...
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Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to understand and carry out conversations in the Egyptian dialect including the grammatical features and vocabulary of Module 7, and based on the following topics or situations:
Lesson 45: Internal Security
Lesson 46: Financial Affairs
Lesson 47: Public Service - Part A
Lesson 48: Liaison Public Service - Part B...
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This book is a sequel to Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and assumes thorough mastery of the grammatical and lexical content of it on on oral as well as written level: i.e. by the time the student reaches this level, he should have active control of some 800 words and should be able to handle easily the basic grammatical structures of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Though similar in outlook and basic premises to mass, Modern Standard Arabic, Intermediate level, (IMSA) views "intermediate", contrary to t; widespread use of the tern as a second semester or a second year course conducted along the same lin...
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These ebooks are meant to be used in compliment with the SOLT Arabic course material. They contain additional in exercises and audios that will help you firm up the Arabic material you learned in each of the modules of the main Arabic SOLT course....
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This module contains 6 supplementary ebooks that can help students who are trying to learn Syrian Arabic. The books are as follows:
-Arabic English Glossary
-Arabic Sounds and Scripts
-Dictionary of Arabic Military Terminology
-Arabic Grammar Reference
-Arabic Instructors Manual
-Arabic Orders of Battle...
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This volume of Speaking Exercises corresponds to Modules 1-12 (Lessons 1-48) of the Arabic Egyptian Course. There is one set of activities (Activity A through Activity D) for each module. Each set of activities must be given before the corresponding weekly test. Each activity with its subactivities (Activity A, 1., 2. and 3.) is roughly estimated to fill one classroom hour. But, the classroom teacher will have the final word concerning the exact time needed for the students to benefit from each exercise.
Many of the Speaking Exercises create situations and set an activity in motion, but it is the learners the...
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The Arabic language taught in this SOLT course belongs to the Semitic branch of languages developed by the nomadic people of the Arabian Peninsula. It is related to ancient languages such as Phoenician, Akkadian, Canaanite, and Aramaic, as well as Ethiopic and Hebrew. However, Arabic is far and away the most widely spoken Semitic language today and is the national language of roughly 120 million inhabitants of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria,
Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. It is also spoken in smaller Arab communities and enclaves throughout the world.
Modern Arabic is divided into a standard or cl...
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As students of the SOLT Arabic (MSA) courses, you will need new insights and comprehensive cross-discipline skills to meet the increasingly complex issues, assignments, and challenges of the global conflicts you may find yourself in. As Special Operations soldiers, you need an intensive language program that accelerates your multi-language requirements and, in turn, enhances your career to match the rapid speed of changes.
This language program can help you gain the added credentials and valuable learning that you need to advance in your career and provide the specializations needed, which can immediately put ...
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One of the most effective teaching methods is the Communicative Approach. Tasked-based learning (TBL) requires students to engage in interaction in order to fulfill a task and involves differentiating, the ability to sequence, and problem-posing activities involving learners and teachers in some joint selection.
Tasks are a feature of everyday life. We all have things we need or want to do. We have specific purposes and goals in mind, and we use specific competencies to complete the tasks. In daily life, a task might be shifting a wardrobe from one room to another or planning the budget for the next financial ...
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