What is Included in the Tuition 

24 hours of instruction

Fawakih Textbook for level 1A

Access to Recorded Classes

What Does Fawakih's Quranic Arabic- Level 1 cover?

Level 1 of Fawakih's Quranic Arabic Curriculum lays the foundations of Arabic grammar and morphology. The course (over two semesters) covers characteristics of nouns (e.g., definiteness, gender, and number) and introduces simple phrases (e.g. adjectival and prepositional phrases) as well as basic sentence structure (e.g. nominal and verbal sentences). Sound verbs are introduced and students are expected to conjugate verbs in the past, present, and command tenses. Basics of noun patterns (e.g., active and passive participles) are also introduced. These concepts are then reinforced through Text Analysis (short supplications and selections from Qisas al-Nabiyeen)and Listening (short supplications), and Quran Analysis (selections from the 30th Juz) modules.


Learning Objectives for Level 1

INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY

  • Ability to conjugate simple, (triliteral, Form I) verbs in past and present tenses and command verbs.
  • Ability to determine whether a verb is conjugated for the past, present tense and command verbs.
  • Ability to recognize the triliteral root of a noun or verb in order to search for the word in a root-based dictionary such as Hans-Wehr.
  • Ability to identify pattern (wazn) of a noun or verb.


INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR SYNTAX

  • To know and be able to identify the three word classes (ism, fi’l, harf) in Arabic.
  • To be comfortable with the concept of noun case, the default marker for each of the three cases, and the default usage for some common sentence structures: Idaafa construct, Verbal & Nominal sentence, and regular sentence.
  • To be able to recognize other grammatical elements such as definiteness, gender, and number.
  • To recognize and use the four common types of pronouns (subject, direct object, indirect object, demonstrative)


INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION

A) LISTENING COMPONENT

  • To become accustomed to listening to Arabic sounds and words. To train the ear to recognize and distinguish the sounds of Arabic letters. 
  • To train oneself to listen for familiar roots & morphological structures.

B) WRITING & SPEAKING COMPONENT

  • To develop confidence in oral production of simple Arabic phrases & sentences.
  • To develop confidence in writing simple guided situations. 
  • To start writing simple sentences and guided paragraphs in Arabic.


INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING

  • To increase confidence with and speed in reading simple voweled and partially-voweled Arabic texts.
  • To train to apply a step-wise methodology for etymology, starting with scanning and moving to translation.
  • To develop a basic repertoire of Qur’anic vocabulary and general Arabic sentence structures.
  • To identify syntactical, morphological and noun-case patterns as one reads.