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Offered:

In-person classes, live-streamed Zoom sessions and video recordings

  • • Term 2 (May-Jun ) and Term 4 (Oct- Dec) each year, pending sufficient enrolment.

  • • This course is offered as an in-person course at the EarthDiverse Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, live-streamed via Zoom if you live elsewhere, and as video recordings of the live sessions if you cannot attend the regularly scheduled class.

Date & Time:

• Begins Thursday 24 Oct 2024, 12:00pm (NZ time) or Wednesday 23 Oct 4:00pm (US Pacific) or Wednesday 23 Oct 7:00pm (US Eastern)

• Our 2024 Term 4 Introductory Arabic 104 course meets on Thursdays from 12:00-1:30 pm beginning on Thursday, 24 Oct (New Zealand time) and continues for eight consecutive weekly sessions.

• The last class of the Term is held on Thursday, 12 Dec 2024.

• The timing of this class is perfect for New Zealanders wishing to study Arabic in the daytime and perfect for North American Students in the USA or Canada to Zoom in for an evening class!

• If you live outside of New Zealand and wish to Zoom in to our live class sessions, check the nearest local Time Zone equivalent below:

Time Zone equivalents:

for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually within 1-2 days.

  • Hawai’i: begins Wed 23 Oct 2024, 1:00-2:30pm

  • US Pacific: begins Wed 23 Oct 2024, 4:00-5:30pm

  • US Eastern: begins Wed 23 Oct 2024, 7:00-8:30pm

  • London, UK: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 12:00-1:30pm

  • Paris, France: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 1:00-2:30am

  • New Delhi, India: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 4:30-6:00am

  • Bangkok, Thailand: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 6:00-7:30am

  • Singapore, Hong Kong: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 7:00-8:30am

  • Tokyo,Japan: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 8:00-9:30am

  • Sydney, Australia: begins Thu 24 Oct 2024, 10:00-11:30am

Description:

  • Intermediate Arabic 204 classes are specifically designed for those who have completed the entire Introductory Arabic 101-104 series of courses and wish to continue their language learning. The course continues with a focus on practice reading and writing in the Arabic Nasakh (قلم النسخ) script over the eight weekly sessions during the first Term. This course includes continued intermediate grammar, vocabulary and conversational skills.

  • Those who already understand, read and speak some Arabic but need to learn more Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and conversational skills may also choose to enrol in the Arabic 203 course.

  • Subsequent term courses of Advanced Arabic (i.e. our Arabic 301 courses) continue with reading and writing practice, introductory grammar, vocabulary, and conversation.

Meet our Instructor:

Arabic Instructor Marwa Khallaf

Marwa is our newest Arabic instructor. She was born and raised in Egypt and Arabic is her mother tongue. She moved to New Zealand a few years ago and is currently married and has children. She has a passion for science, cooking, traveling, and learning new languages. She welcomes you to study Arabic with her!

Location:

All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse Centre located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map below). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
Location

Distance Learning:

This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered:

  • Attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time.

  • Attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time.

  • Watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule.

Distance-Learning options:

  • In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.

  • Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.

  • Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.

EarthDiverse 2021 Arabic Instructor Muhamad Chaar

Pricing options:

All prices in NZ Dollars. Prices remain the same regardless of your chosen method for accessing this course.

Course curriculum:

Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here 1-2 days after each class.

    1. EarthDiverse Course Information

    2. EarthDiverse Zoom instructions

Additional course info:

  • Video and PDF content of class presentations or whiteboards notes are uploaded weekly after each live session
  • Begins on Thu 24 Oct 2024
  • NZ time: Thurdays 12.00 - 1.30pm

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites for this Course:

  • Completion of the Introductory series of Arabic 101-104 and 201-203.

  • no prerequisites if you are already familiar with the Arabic Nasakh (قلم النسخ) script and have some familiarity with Arabic grammar or spoken Arabic.

Materials:

Course materials are provided to all registered students in the form of handouts, PDF attachments emailed to students, or digital materials made available to you for download. There is no need to purchase any additional Arabic textbooks for this course, although you may choose to do so to supplement your learning. You will only require a pen or pencil and a notebook for taking your own class notes. Any notes that our instructor writes on the class whiteboard will be emailed to you as a digital PDF file so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.

Notes:

Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.