ARABIC LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 2

L-OR/12 - 9 CFU - Annual Tuition

Teaching Staff

ALBA ROSA SURIANO
ARTURO MONACO


Learning Objectives

- Ability to read and vocalize texts in Standard Arabic;

- ability to recognize and apply the basic grammar rules of Standard Arabic;

- knowledge of the main Morphological aspects of Standard Arabic;

- knowledge of the main Syntactic structures of Standard Arabic;

- ability to translate sentences and texts from Arabic to Italian and from Italian to Arabic;

- ability to speak basics of Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (CEA).


Course Structure

54 hours taught classes or equivalent activities; 96 hours laboratories with mother tongue collaborators.



Detailed Course Content

- Declension of irregular nouns;

- collective nouns;

- the five nouns;

- the relative clause;

- the declarative clause;

- kana and similar verbs;

- inna and similar particles;

- hal clause;

- adverbials of time and space;

- decrees of the adjective;

- quadriliteral verb;

- verba geminata;

- verba hamzatae;

- verba primae infirmae;

- verba mediae infirmae;

- the passive;

- elements of Arabic spoken in Egypt (CEA).



Textbook Information

1. Luc-Willy Deheuvels (ed. italiana a cura di A. Ghersetti), Grammatica araba. Manuale di arabo moderno, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2010, vol. 1 e 2.

2. S. Louis, Kallimni ‘Arabi Bishweesh, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2009.

3. R. Traini, Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Istituto per l’Oriente, Roma 1993 e edd. seguenti.

(further reading) L. Veccia Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba - vol. 1, Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, Roma 2011 (II edizione).

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