Levantine Arabic Conversation: Beginner
Speak the Arabic you hear every day on the streets of Damascus.
About this course
Speak the Arabic you hear every day on the streets of Damascus. This course focuses on spoken Syrian and Levantine Arabic, so you can greet neighbours, take a taxi, shop at the market and chat about family and daily life from the first week.
Sessions are practical and conversation-led, with only the grammar you need to speak naturally. The course runs on demand as a group class, one-to-one or in an intensive format, and finishes with an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Pronounce the characteristic sounds of spoken Syrian and Levantine Arabic
- Greet people and respond appropriately to common social expressions
- Use spoken present tense, negation and question words in short conversations
- Handle numbers, time and money, including in the market
- Get around the city by taxi and shared transport and ask for directions
- Talk about family, home and daily routine in simple spoken Arabic
Curriculum
- How spoken Levantine differs from Standard Arabic
- Key consonant and vowel sounds
- Transliteration used in class
- Stress and intonation
- Greetings for different times of day
- Standard responses to common greetings
- Introducing yourself
- Thanks, apologies and polite requests
- Personal pronouns
- The spoken present tense
- Negation
- Question words
- Numbers and counting
- Telling the time
- Days of the week
- Handling money and bargaining
- Taxis and shared minibuses
- Asking for and following directions
- Places in the city
- Asking for help
- At the market
- Ordering in restaurants and cafés
- Quantities and weights
- Hospitality expressions
- Talking about family
- Daily routine
- Home and neighbours
- Talking about plans
- Role-plays from daily life
- Listening to everyday dialogues
- Useful expressions
- Planning your next steps
Who it's for
Newcomers, expatriates and visitors who want to get by in spoken Arabic in Syria and the Levant.
Before you start
- No previous study of Arabic is required
Part of these Alalamia diplomas
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