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TALKING TO THE WORLD… IN ARABIC
Prepared by P Hanna, Thames Valley University.
© Learning and Skills Council 2006.
http://www.vlrb.org.uk/media/talking_to_the_world_-_in_Arabic/talking_to_the_world_Arabic_resource_1.pdf
teacher note
http://www.vlrb.org.uk/media/talking_to_the_world_-_in_Arabic/talking_to_the_world_Arabic_teacher_notes.pdf
29 September 2008
24 September 2008
Breief Suggestions on Studying Arabic as a Foreign Language
A Few Brief Suggestions on Studying a Foreign Language. Learning a foreign language is not a matter of reading some grammar rules and memorizing some vocabulary words-- although those are important activities, not to be ignored. Acquiring a language is learning a skill, not a body of information. It's as much like learning to swim or ride a bike as it is like learning about the Revolutionary War. That is, you must not only understand the ideas and concepts, have information at hand, but you must also make your body accustomed to using that information in physical activity: in this case the physical activity involved is speaking, listening, writing and reading.
You need, then, not only to memorize and understand, but also to
practice! Practice! practice!
Here are a few brief suggestions on effective practice/study techniques. See your instructor if you have questions, or need help in developing an effective study technique.
Make your mouth or hand do what your mind is learning Study out loud. Do go to the lab and work on the tapes. Study with a friend, thus involving yourself in speaking and listening. Try to write sentences or a short paragraph using the skills you have practiced orally.
If you study by reading silently, you draw only upon your visual memory.
If you study out loud, you double your efficiency by adding auditory memory and you make your mouth work, helping with pronunciation and speech.
Augment your learning potential even further by writing what you have read and spoken.
Study day-by-day. You cannot get by in a foreign language course by cramming at the last minute. You may be able to `learn' vocabulary items that way, but you cannot teach your mouth to use them in sentences. (Can you cram for a swimming test or a piano recital?)
Occasionally go back and review `old' topics and vocabulary. Language learning is cumulative. You learn new skills on the basis of old ones. The more you `recycle' familiar information and skills, the better you will be able to integrate new ones.
Instructors usually present and test new language skills in a somewhat segmented, chapter-by-chapter approach, as a matter of administrative convenience. However, actual learning is not segmented at all, but cumulative. You add new information and skills to the old without superseding them. Your instructor will incorporate `old' information and vocabulary in the presentation of new skills; you will benefit from doing the same thing when you study. (For example, practice new grammar concepts with familiar vocabulary, we well as with new words.)
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Self-consciousness can be a mighty obstacle to learning a language. Perhaps part of the reason small children readily acquire languages is that they are not afraid of making mistakes: their egos do not restrain them from acting like `little clowns'.
If you are prepared to goof from time to time, or even frequently, you'll feel much less restraint in practicing and trying to speak.
This information taken from:
©The Augustine Club at Columbia University, 1997
augustine@columbia.edu
You need, then, not only to memorize and understand, but also to
practice! Practice! practice!
Here are a few brief suggestions on effective practice/study techniques. See your instructor if you have questions, or need help in developing an effective study technique.
Make your mouth or hand do what your mind is learning Study out loud. Do go to the lab and work on the tapes. Study with a friend, thus involving yourself in speaking and listening. Try to write sentences or a short paragraph using the skills you have practiced orally.
If you study by reading silently, you draw only upon your visual memory.
If you study out loud, you double your efficiency by adding auditory memory and you make your mouth work, helping with pronunciation and speech.
Augment your learning potential even further by writing what you have read and spoken.
Study day-by-day. You cannot get by in a foreign language course by cramming at the last minute. You may be able to `learn' vocabulary items that way, but you cannot teach your mouth to use them in sentences. (Can you cram for a swimming test or a piano recital?)
Occasionally go back and review `old' topics and vocabulary. Language learning is cumulative. You learn new skills on the basis of old ones. The more you `recycle' familiar information and skills, the better you will be able to integrate new ones.
Instructors usually present and test new language skills in a somewhat segmented, chapter-by-chapter approach, as a matter of administrative convenience. However, actual learning is not segmented at all, but cumulative. You add new information and skills to the old without superseding them. Your instructor will incorporate `old' information and vocabulary in the presentation of new skills; you will benefit from doing the same thing when you study. (For example, practice new grammar concepts with familiar vocabulary, we well as with new words.)
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Self-consciousness can be a mighty obstacle to learning a language. Perhaps part of the reason small children readily acquire languages is that they are not afraid of making mistakes: their egos do not restrain them from acting like `little clowns'.
If you are prepared to goof from time to time, or even frequently, you'll feel much less restraint in practicing and trying to speak.
This information taken from:
©The Augustine Club at Columbia University, 1997
augustine@columbia.edu
Learning skills
Here is some information to help you in your learning.
resources taken from University of Westminster.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2719
Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.studygs.net/A well-designed and comprehensive site of study guides and strategies by the American educational consultant Joe Landsberger
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/
Contains excellent tips on learning a foreign language. This site, administered by the Augustine Club at Columbia University, also has great information on time-saving/time management and life skills
http://www3.open.ac.uk/learners-guide/learning-skills/index.htm
The Learning Skills site of the Open University (OU). Although it is aimed at OU students, most of the advice applies to students at any university.
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/organization.html
Very useful and interesting approaches to organising information gained through your studies to aid understanding and memory.
Support4Learning
http://www.support4learning.org.uk/education/index.cfm
Site with tons of links to study skills information; use the list on the left side panel to focus your search.
http://ucc.vt.edu/academic_support/study_skills_information.html
Study skills page produced by Virginia Tech University featuring information on speed reading, concentration and proofreading, as well as several other skills.
https://custom-writing.org/blog/study-skills
resources taken from University of Westminster.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2719
Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.studygs.net/A well-designed and comprehensive site of study guides and strategies by the American educational consultant Joe Landsberger
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/
Contains excellent tips on learning a foreign language. This site, administered by the Augustine Club at Columbia University, also has great information on time-saving/time management and life skills
http://www3.open.ac.uk/learners-guide/learning-skills/index.htm
The Learning Skills site of the Open University (OU). Although it is aimed at OU students, most of the advice applies to students at any university.
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/organization.html
Very useful and interesting approaches to organising information gained through your studies to aid understanding and memory.
Support4Learning
http://www.support4learning.org.uk/education/index.cfm
Site with tons of links to study skills information; use the list on the left side panel to focus your search.
http://ucc.vt.edu/academic_support/study_skills_information.html
Study skills page produced by Virginia Tech University featuring information on speed reading, concentration and proofreading, as well as several other skills.
https://custom-writing.org/blog/study-skills
23 September 2008
Watch, Listen and Speak Modern Standard Arabic
For advanced level.But intermediate level can benefit too . Remember that to be able to speak the language is you need to do some lips and tongue movement and bring the sound out loud .
If you study out loud, you double your efficiency by adding auditory memory and you make your mouth work, helping with pronunciation and speech. SO TRY TO REPEAT OUT LOUD some words of what the actor/ess said.
The first episode start from page 14 ( pages shown at the bottom of the page, on the right.)
here is the links . Look for أبي جعفر المنصور
http://vramadan.mbc.net/mediamanager/ تشهد هذه الحلقة ولادة عبدالله بن العباس الملقب بأبي جعفر المنصور
There will be few second or so for the advertisement.
The main links www.mbc.net/shahed Shahed means watch
Please note the word اغلاق "close" on the top right,when you click on اغلاق word,you will close the advertisement, then the list of all episodes will shown .If you have any problem please let me know by leaving comments.Please note that you can download any episode to your computer.
If you study out loud, you double your efficiency by adding auditory memory and you make your mouth work, helping with pronunciation and speech. SO TRY TO REPEAT OUT LOUD some words of what the actor/ess said.
The first episode start from page 14 ( pages shown at the bottom of the page, on the right.)
here is the links . Look for أبي جعفر المنصور
http://vramadan.mbc.net/mediamanager/ تشهد هذه الحلقة ولادة عبدالله بن العباس الملقب بأبي جعفر المنصور
There will be few second or so for the advertisement.
The main links www.mbc.net/shahed Shahed means watch
Please note the word اغلاق "close" on the top right,when you click on اغلاق word,you will close the advertisement, then the list of all episodes will shown .If you have any problem please let me know by leaving comments.Please note that you can download any episode to your computer.
Watch and listen Egyptian Arabic
For the advanced level.(Egyptian Arabic)
Now you can watch this episode of بعد الفراق direct from the mbc .Here is the links for the first episode
تحكي الحلقة الأولى قصة يوسف وسكرة ووفاة والدهما وهربها بعد ان كبرت إلى القاهرة لتبتعد عن زوج والدتها المتسلط
http://vramadan.mbc.net/mediamanager/?ee_category=6706
second episode
تستقر سكرة في مصر وتعمل كخادمة ويحاول يوسف إيجاد عمل آخر بهدف تحسين صورته أمام أخته وسكرة
The general links:
www.mbc.net/shahed Here you will find most of other dialect :
ظل الياسمين /Drama
كلنا عيال قرية /comedy
بينى وبينك /comedy
باب الحارة /Comedy
عيون عليا /Drama
خواطر (RECOMMENDED) The producer talk to ordinary people about a subject.for example watch episode 8.
Now you can watch this episode of بعد الفراق direct from the mbc .Here is the links for the first episode
تحكي الحلقة الأولى قصة يوسف وسكرة ووفاة والدهما وهربها بعد ان كبرت إلى القاهرة لتبتعد عن زوج والدتها المتسلط
http://vramadan.mbc.net/mediamanager/?ee_category=6706
second episode
تستقر سكرة في مصر وتعمل كخادمة ويحاول يوسف إيجاد عمل آخر بهدف تحسين صورته أمام أخته وسكرة
The general links:
www.mbc.net/shahed Here you will find most of other dialect :
ظل الياسمين /Drama
كلنا عيال قرية /comedy
بينى وبينك /comedy
باب الحارة /Comedy
عيون عليا /Drama
خواطر (RECOMMENDED) The producer talk to ordinary people about a subject.for example watch episode 8.
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