Post Graduate Diploma in Arabic Language by Dunster Business School

About This Course

Post Graduate Diploma in Arabic Language by Dunster Business School

Learn Arabic, one of the most widely spoken languages worldwide. Our comprehensive and effective learning approach offers you a solid foundation in Arabic. Improve your language skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is suitable for all kinds of learners, regardless of ability. 

ALPT & ILÀ Exams

Arabic Language Proficiency Test (ALPT) is the global standard for measuring student proficiency levels in Arabic. There are five fundamental skills that are measured on the exam: Listening Comprehension, Reading, Structure, Writing, and Speaking.

5 in 1 Course

• Training
• Projects
• Exam Assistance
• Certification
• Assignments

Industry Projects

Get hands-on experience in relevant industry projects with a Post Graduate Diploma in Arabic Language Course.

Takeaways of Your Investment

• Practice reading, speaking & writing with plenty of Video Lessons and learning techniques
• Get familiar with the Alphabets & Numbers in Arabic
• Learn new Words & construct Sentences 
• Practice Pronunciation with the help of video lessons
• Know the Grammar rules and its usage
• Gain knowledge in Building Blocks of Arabic grammar
• Learn hundreds of new Key Vocabulary Words
• Access to Study Materials to learn easily & quickly
• Improve Reading, Speaking, listening & Writing skills

Level A1

Vocabulary
• Personal details
• Physical and character features
• Family
• Jobs
• Familiar domain
• Daily routine
• Colors
• Cardinal point
• Arabic personal names
• Personal age
• Imperatives
• Arab world map

Grammar
• Pronouns
• Common names
• Adjectives
• Equational sentence
• Iḍāfa
• Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (singular)
• Question marks
• Numbers
• How to express possession
• Prepositions
• Mudāri‘ conjugation in the singular of following verbs

Linguistic Functions
• Identifying (a person or an object)
• Answering questions for confirmation information identification
• Greetings
• Introducing another person
• Describing relatives’ relationships
• Describing in a simple way one’s home and the familiar domain
• Describing oneself and other people
• Telling the place one comes from
• Identifying Arab and non-Arab countries and towns
• Speaking about what one has got
• Telling one’s age

Level A2

Vocabulary
• Biographical details
• Everyday activities
• Free time (hobbies, sports, leisure, and entertainment)
• Food
• Shopping
• Health
• Time
• Weather

Grammar
• Muḍāri‘ (marfū‘, manṣūb, mağzūm) verbal phrase
• Māḍī verbal phrase
• Future particles
• Negative particles + verb
• Imperative
• Accusative particles
• Modal verbs
• Verbs of believing
• To like, to prefer
• Numbers
• Question marks
• Time and frequency particles

Linguistic Functions
• Describing one’s daily routine, setting it in time and space
• Speaking about one’s interests in a general way
• Asking questions about another person’s routine and interests
• Describing where an object/a place is
• Accepting or refusing a proposal
• Speaking about preferences
• Describing past experiences and wishes for the future
• Knowing how to evaluate an object or a service
• Describing one’s health, asking about another person’s health
• Speaking about weather, describing it and speaking about related activities

Level B1

Lexical Fields
• Personal sphere
• Natural, study and work environment
• Social interaction
• Travel and vacation
• Means of communication and news
• Books, films, radio and television programs, blogs and social networks
• Geopolitics of the Arab world

Grammatical Elements
• Verbs
• Elative
• Hypothetical sentence
• Connectors
• Expressions
• Passive construction
• الحال
• المفعول المطلق

Linguistic Functions
• Articulate a short speech on a familiar (present, past, or future) or current issue
• Telling a story, the plot of a book or a movie
• Relate the speech of others
• Express preferences, opinions, and feelings
• Describe places and people
• Identify and describe objects and devices (type, shape, size, purpose, and use)
• Compare and make comparisons
• Ask for and provide directions and travel information
• Describe damaged goods or inadequate services
• Criticize or complain
• Compliment
• Talk about obligations, requests, and procedures
• Advise
• Talk about possibility and certainty
• Hypothesizing and deducing
• Express goals, causes, and results
• Asking questions to an interlocutor (clarifications, reformulations, explanations)

Level B2

Lexical Fields
• Personal sphere
• Natural, study and work environment
• Social interaction
• Means of communication and news
• Books, films, radio and television programs, blogs and social networks
• Technology and science
• Environment
• Humanities
• Idioms
• Language

Grammatical Elements
• لأسماء
• الأفعال
• الحروف
• التصريف
• تصريف الأفعال

Linguistic Functions
• Understand the standard Arabic language media by identifying, in addition to the content, the speaker's point of view and attitude
• Correctly grasp the meaning and content of a film or show in standard language
• Understand speeches or messages on abstract topics formulated in standard language in real time
• Follow a discussion by expressing your opinion, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of what has been debated
• Negotiate to resolve a conflict situation by explaining for both parties what the essential conditions are
• Understand, process, and effectively transmit information relating to data or procedures inherent to one's professional function
• Reflect on the language also through metacognition
• Understand a scientific text
• Understanding humor
• Understand a conversation between native speakers
• Knowing how to explain, rephrase, and paraphrase