Pimsleur Comprehensive Arabic (Eastern) Level 3

Comprehensive Arabic (Eastern) III includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Levels I and II. Increased spoken and reading language ability.

Level III will increase your vocabulary and grammatical structures and triple your spoken proficiency. Upon completion of a level III, you will be able to:

• participate in most informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and some semi-professional topics,
• form longer sentences while maintaining the target language syntax,
• be understood even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners,
• handle increasingly difficult grammatical structures,
• enjoy fluent conversations with a variety of strangers,
• have a near-native accent, and the subtleties of the language will be apparent in your speech,
• read at the same level at which you speak.

Note: In order for the Pimsleur Method to work correctly, you must first complete the Level I + II language programs before proceeding to the Level III language program.

 

About the Arabic Language

Arabic rabī) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. Classified as Central Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic, and has its roots in a Proto-Semitic common ancestor. Modern Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage with 27 sub-languages in ISO 639-3. These varieties are spoken throughout the Arab world, and Standard Arabic is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world.

Modern Standard Arabic derives from Classical Arabic, the only surviving member of the Old North Arabian dialect group, attested epigraphically since the 6th century, which has been a literary language and the liturgical language of Islam since the 7th century.

Arabic has lent many words to other languages of the Islamic world, as Latin has contributed to most European languages. And in turn, it has also borrowed from those languages, as well as Persian and Sanskrit from early contacts with their affiliated regions. During the Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy, with the result that many European languages have also borrowed numerous words from it especially Spanish and Portuguese, countries it ruled for 700 years (see Al-Andalus).

"Colloquial Arabic" is a collective term for the spoken varieties of Arabic used throughout the Arab world, which, as mentioned, differ radically from the literary language. The main dialectal division is between the North African dialects and those of the Middle East, followed by that between sedentary dialects and the much more conservative Bedouin dialects. Speakers of some of these dialects are unable to converse with speakers of another dialect of Arabic; in particular, while Middle Easterners can generally understand one another, they often have trouble understanding North Africans (although the converse is not true, due to the popularity of Middle Eastern—especially Egyptian—films and other media).

One factor in the differentiation of the dialects is influence from the languages previously spoken in the areas, which have typically provided a significant number of new words, and have sometimes also influenced pronunciation or word order; however, a much more significant factor for most dialects is, as among Romance languages, retention (or change of meaning) of different classical forms. Thus Iraqi aku, Levantine fīh, and North African kayən all mean "there is", and all come from classical Arabic forms (yakūn, fīhi, kā'in respectively), but now sound very different.

 

The Pimsleur method  is an digital audio vocab skill model cultivated by Dr Pimsleur that highlights involved participation over rote memorization. During tutorials, the listener will repeat keywords offered by native presenters and produces new content by inference. As new expressions are revealed, the listener is encouraged to recall earlier phrases. The requests for any furnished word or phrase are slowly and gradually spread out in ever-increasing periods of time. Somewhere between 1963 and Nineteen Seventy One, Pimsleur created Greek, French, Spanish, German, and Twi training courses while schooling at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Pimsleur lanuage learning system aims at on competency in conversing, as well as proficiency in reading. These 2 points are honed using 30-minute training lessons, which are reiterated until a ranking of at a minimum eighty% awareness is satisfied before going ahead to the the following lesson. In the course of the modules, students listen closely to native speakers of the specific language as they speak phrases in simultaneously the foreign language, combined with the student’s principal language. At calibrated time intervals, students are prompted to reproduce a word or phrase just after being attentive to the presenter. As the person moves along through the course, the period increases, as does the dimensions of the lexicon. The program are made up of thirty-minute regular lessons and shorter reviewing modules