Arabic 402 filled by mistake

Ahlan Ya Tullaab,

I just wanted to inform you that Arabic 402 got filled by mistake with 8 students that are not eligible to take it.

If you've had difficulties signing up for it, and were told that it was full, I took care of the problem. So I hope that you go back and try again.

Hope you're having a wonderful time away from school :)

A'yaad Sa'eeda

The party will have to waite :(

Dear students,

The weather forecast is conspiring against our last day celebration, and thus is forcing me to cancel class. It promises to be at it's worst right around the time for me to be driving home. So, we'll have to Waite and look forward to having fun when we see each other again in January. All I have to worry about right now is what to do with all the pita bread that my husband bought.

So good luck with your finals, and have a restful and safe break.

I had loads of fun with you this past semester, and it was a real privilege to teach you.

A'yaad Sa'eedah
Happy Holidays

No class today, Wednesday December 10

Dear Arabic 401 Students,

Regretfully, I will not be able to see you today, but I look forward to having a fun last day with you tomorrow.

Those of you that can, please inform your other classmates.

Shukran

How it all breaks down

Just to clarify how your grade for these presentations will be broken down:

Delivery, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Spelling : 10 points each

Your skits and presentations

Ahlan Ya Shebaab,

Just wanted to EMPHSIZE how important it is to practice your stuff, so that you do it with confidence. It is essential that your pronunciation be accurate. It along with the confidant manner of your delivery will count just as much as the content, grammar and spelling.

A feedback to Arabic 401 students:

Though the great majority of you should be very proud of your work from last Wednesday, some of you still lost a few points because they either couldn't read what they had written, or didn't pronounce the words accurately. I don't mean to be unrealistically demanding. I do understand that there are limits to how well you can pronounce these odd and at times difficult Arabic words, but I need to at least understand you :)

I look forward to see and hear what you've created.

Helpful news

UNH students can participate in the National Student Exchange (NSE) to gain access to upper-level language courses from accredited colleges & universities! There are over 180 campuses, in the US, US territories, and Canada, that participate in NSE. Students can spend a semester or year on exchange while still paying their UNH tuition, and receiving their UNH financial aid. It’s easy & affordable. 20+ Campuses offer courses in Chinese30+ Campuses offer courses in Japanese6 Campuses offer courses in Arabic Also: Hawaiian, Hindu, Lakota, Latin, Navaho, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish and more. Search by major at http://www.nse.org/cmajors.asp There will be an NSE Information Session this Thursday, Dec. 4th at 12:45pm in MUB 302. All students and faculty are welcome.For more information about NSE, eligibility, and how to apply, visit www.unh.edu/nse. Paula__________________________________Paula M. DiNardo, CoordinatorNational & State Exchange Programs,The Washington Center Internships, andPrelaw Advising at the University of New HampshireHood House, room 11489 Main StreetDurham, NH 03824603.862.3485 (phone)603.862.3104 (fax)

A helpful book

A'izzaa'i Al-Tullaab,

I would like to recommend a nice book that might be helpful to you in preparing your final class presentations, and for general enrichment of your vocab and expressions. The title of this book is " Building Your Arabic Vocabulary". It's by Haroon Shirwani.

Class presentations

Dear students in Arabic 401

Those of you that would like help with your presentations for Wednesday, please see me in my office during office hours. Please do not count on getting my help after class.

In addition to content, please pay attention to spelling. You will be graded on spelling, richness of vocabulary as well as confidence in delivery and pronunciation.

Hadh Sa'eed

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Information Session


Friday, November 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - Hood House 203

Your Quiz

Marhaba,

Ya Tullaab Fi Arabic 401:

Don't forget to practice putting your new vocabulary in two word phrases for the quiz, much like what we did in class on Thursday.

Hadh Sa'eed

Ya Tullaab Fi Arabic 503:

You need to thoroughly study All your Tamaareen, for both vocabulary and grammar, including Tamreen 3 on Safha 170.

Hadh Sa'eed

Study Arabic For Free

Subject: Middlebury Language Schools Annoucement

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages

Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Arabic Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools

Middlebury College is pleased to announce the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages. These 100 fellowships are made possible by a generous gift from Kathryn Davis to address today’s critical need for increased language proficiency in the United States.

For the third year in a row, the Kathryn Davis Fellowships are being offered to cover the full cost of one summer of language study at the Middlebury Language Schools—from the beginner to the graduate level—in six languages, including Arabic. The fellowship covers the full comprehensive fee (tuition, room, and board), plus a stipend to assist in defraying program-related expenses.

For more information, please visit http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm .



Middlebury Language Schools Open a Second Site at Mills College in Oakland, Ca.

The Arabic School moves to Mills in Summer 2009

In response to increasing demand for admission to the Middlebury Language Schools, we’re pleased to announce the creation of a new West Coast learning site. Now accepting applications, Middlebury at Mills brings the power of our established Language School programs to the historic Mills College campus in Oakland, California. Beginning in the summer of 2009, the Arabic School will be located exclusively at Mills. This provides a unique opportunity for our West Coast students to benefit from our intensive immersion programs closer to home, and for East Coast students to explore the liveliness and cultural diversity of the Bay Area.

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reminder

Ahlan A'izzaa'i Al-Tullaab,

Just to remind you that there will not be class on Wednesday, 11/12.

Also, please don't forget to study for your upcoming quiz. Come to class on Thursday prepared to ask questions so as to review the material.

Quiz on Tuesday, November 18

Ahlan Ya Tullaab,

Arabic 401:

Your quiz will be on all material from unit 7. Please familiarise yourselves with the new Mufradat (vocabulary) on pages 118 and 119 for Thursday, Nov 13 class. As well, Know your alphabet chart and your numerals chart. And of course, practice your favorite activity: SPELLING :)

Arabic 503:

Your quiz will be on Chapter 10. don't forget to do tamreen 10 for homework, but also review pages 176 and 177, and come to class on November 13 prepared to do Tamreen 17. Also for your quiz, practice tamreen 15, pages 180 and 181.

Midterm on Thursday October 30

Marhaba Ya Shebaab,
I hope you had a good weekend.

Arabic 401:

Your exam will be cumulative. It will be on all your Mufradat (vocab) and spelling through chapter 6. Please come to class with questions should you need something reviewed or clarified. You may or may not have noticed, but all of your dictation words on your quizzes have been taken from your dictation exercises. Make sure you study those for your midterm.

Hadh Sa'eed

Arabic 503:

Your exam will be on chapters 8&9, and whatever we cover from chapter 10. Should you have any questions about any part of this material, come to class prepared to fire away.
The format of the exam will be to show off your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary through translation from Arabic to English and English to Arabic (much like what we do in class) and through "fill in the blanks" exercises.

Hadh Sa'eed

An interesting article about Egypt

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/world/africa/17bread.html


And here is one from Baghdad I think you’ll find interesting:


http://baghdadbureau.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/becherer-forpub-the-gap-haifa-street-2004-and-2008/?hp

Another overseas program

Program URL: http://www.clscholarship.org/home.php




DEADLINE NOTE
On-line applications must be submitted by November 14, 2008. Letters
of reference and transcripts need to be postmarked by November 14,
2008.


Link to full program description:
http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin_prog.asp?00175

Interesting reading

An interesting article.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/world/middleeast/22dubai.html?em

Next quiz

Marhaba Ya Shebaab,

For tullaabi fi Arabic 401, your next quiz will be on Thursday, 10/23. It will include both vocabulary and spelling words from Unit 5. It will also expect you to be able to form simple 2-word phrases, comprised of nouns and adjectives.

For tullaabi fi Arabic 503, your quiz will be on Tuesday, 10/28. It will be on chapter 9 in it's entirety. So let's go over any and all material you don't feel you're on solid grounds with.

quiz

Ahlan Ya Tullaab Fii Arabic 401:

Your quiz will be on Wednesday, 10/15. It will be only on Al-Mufradaat (vocabulary) from units 1-4.

Ahlan Ya Tullaab Fii Arabic 503:

Your quiz will be on Thursday, 10/16. It will only be on Al-Mufradaat from chapter 9.

Study guide for the quiz

Marhaba Ya Tullaab,

For your quiz on Tuesday, Please pay particular attention to the following:

401:

-Study all your dictation drills.

-Study all your vocabulary (we went over those in class on Thursday).

503:

-Study your vocabulary.

-Study verb conjugation & negation of past and present.

-Study Al-Jethr(the root)& Al-Wazn(the pattern).

-Study your number(what comes before and after).

Quiz

Ahlan Ya Tullaab Fii Arabic 401 & 503,

We will have a quiz on Tuesday, October 7. So come to class with questions on Thursday, that is if you have any.

401 class:

The quiz will be on ALL of unit 4.

503 class:

The quiz will be on ALL of chapter 8.

More good stuff

Subject: CAORC Summer Language Institutes



CAORC Summer Language Institutes Fri, September 19, 2008


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The United States Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the availability of overseas scholarships for intensive summer language institutes in eleven critical need foreign languages for summer 2009.

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Quiz

Ahlan Ya Shebaab,

I thought I'd give you the heads up for our upcoming quiz. Depending on how the week will go, we will most probably have it on Thursday, 9/25 or perhaps on Tuesday, 9/30.

401 students:

The quiz will be on Units 2 and 3.

503 students:

The quiz will be on the Mufradat from chapter 8, and on the verb and Musdar conjugation charts on page 130 and page 131.

Interesting information

The Institute of International Education is pleased to announce the opening of the 2009-10 academic year competition for NSEP David L. Boren Scholarships for undergraduate students and NSEP David L. Boren Fellowships for graduate students. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. students to add important international and language components to their educations.

Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 for an academic year's study abroad. Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 for language study and international research.

Applications and detailed information on the Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available on www.borenawards.org - our newly designed website.
The application deadline for the Boren Fellowship is January 29, and the deadline for the Boren Scholarship is February 11.

If you have any questions or comments please contact the IIE Boren Scholarships and Fellowships staff at boren@iie.org or 1-800-618-NSEP.


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503 Quiz study guide

Ahlan Ya Shebaab,

In addition to the Mufradaat from chapters 1-7, please study the following:

-Days of the week.

-The verbs and their conjugation on page 59 (Tamreen 8).

-The four seasons.

-Al Musdar chart on page 89.

Hadh Sa'eed

Quiz

Ahlan Arabic students,

Just to give you the heads up, but I thought that we should start thinking about our first quiz.

Arabic 401:

This quiz will be on Thursday, 9/11. It will be a spelling test which covers Unit One.

Arabic 503:

Your quiz will be on Tuesday, 9/16. It will cover ALL vocab from chapters 1-7. You will be asked to go from Arabic to English as well as from English to Arabic. Vocab only.

Ahlan my Arabic students

Dear 401 & 503 students,

It was nice to see you all yesterday, and I look forward to a fun and exiting year with you .

Last minute help

Ahlan Ya Shebaab,

I'll try to be in my office around 3:00 this afternoon, so as to be available to those that need last minute help with their presentations.

Let's have some fun

Marhaba Ya Shebaab,

I was thinking that perhaps we should go out and have one of our classes next week on the lawn in front or Murklund Hall. We should bring a boom box and blast some Arabic music in the background. Maybe even have a big sign that says :" Learn Arabic" both in Arabic and English, and have an " Arabic Awareness " day. Also, feel free to bring snacks.

Write me emails with thoughts and suggestions as to how you feel about this. Also, give me suggestions if you want that class to be about stuff other than the usual.

A short and easy Quiz for 402 students

A'izzaa'i Attullaab,

DON'T PANIC !

We will have an easy quiz on Thursday, May/1. It will only be on Al-Mufradaat from Chapter 7. Just review them, and review Tamreen 1&2, ps 103 & 104. I'm just not confidant that you have the vocab down pat. If I had it my way, I'd do vocab from all the chapters up to now, but feel lucky that I'm not going to do that :)

Juniors and seniors in my classes

This may be of interest to all of you juniors and seniors :

Monday May 5^th 5:00-6:00pm
MUB 338

Free Food and Drinks!

Sponsored by Health Services, Project CASH, UNH alumni Association, Parents Association and the UNH Cooperative Extension

For more information call 862-3823

504 Quiz on Thursday

A'izzaa'i Al-Tullaab Fi 504,

For your quiz, please review chapters 12 & 13.

Don't forget to study your Mufradaat, especially the exercises on pgs. 206 & 225.

Study Superlatives, and practice with exercise 8.

Study your prepositions in exercise 18, p. 219.

Study verb conjugation for Mudhaari' Murfoo', Munsoob and Mujzoom. What they follow if they were to represent a future tense, and what they follow when they're negated in the present, past and future tense. What kind of short vowel ending do they take. Practice with exercise 8, p. 230.

Know how to use "An" vs. "Anna" pgs. 232 & 233. Practice putting them in sentences.

Hadh Sa'eed

402 Quiz on Tuesday

Ahlan Tullab 402,

These are a few things to focus on for your quiz, in addition to your general review of chapters 5&6:

Please know your Mufradaat (vocab) well, as there will be no word bank.

Know Noun_Adjective Phrases, p. 75, and understand how each phrase is translated into English.

Know the three ways of using Demonstratives, p. 77, and how each is translated into English.

Know your days of the week.

Know the three different ways of answering "why" "limaatha" and how they're used ( because, because of, in order to).

Know your four seasons.

Hadh Sa'eed

An interesting way to spend your summer

www.MiddleEastFellowship.org.

Dear students,

Above, please find a website of a Summer program in Damascus, Syria. It's interesting and quite affordable. I thought that it might be of interest to some of you.

Good News

Marhaba Ya Shebaab

It is with pleasure that I inform you, that Laith, the nice Iraqi fellow, has graciously accepted to come to our classes to give a presentation about the Middle East. He will do that on Thursday, April 24. It should be a lot of fun.

Not up to it today

Ahlan Tullab 402,

My stomach is not a 100%, and I'd like to give it a chance to rest. I'm sorry it's been a strange semester. The weather has been very strange too. Your assignment for tomorrow, is to tell me in Arabic : The weather in NH has been strange and very windy.

Presentations 402 & 504

Ahlan Ya Shebaab,

I've decided to postpone the presentations to Tuesday, April 1. Today and tomorrow will be regular classes. I hope that this will give you ample time to perfect them. Don't forget that delivery, with confidence and good pronunciation, is really essential. So practice a lot.

No class today, Tuesday March 25

Dear students of 402 and 504,

There will be no class today. My son is sick, and I have an allergic eye infection. As of now, presentations are still due on Thursday, as is your homework which was due today.

Presentation

Ahlan,

For those of you who will have your presentations ready early, and would like to present them on Wednesday instead of Thursday, please feel free to do so. We will dedicate some time for that at the end, or even the beginning of class on Wednesday. I know that some might not like to wait, and would rather get it over with :)

Your up coming quiz

Marhaba ya shebaab,

Please come with questions on Tuesday, if you have any, to review.

402 students,

For your quiz, review chapters 3 & 4, especially:
-your mufradat (vocab)
-tamreen (ex.) 7, safha (p.)44
-tamreen 12, safha 46
-how to conjugate verbs (practice on p.57)
-your vocab on p. 59, and know how to conjugate these verbs

504 students,

For your quiz, review chapter 11, especially:
-your mufradat
-tamreen 1, safha 187
-tamreen 8, safha 191
tamreen 19, safha 201

Midterm

A'izzai Al-Tullab Fi 504, 402

This is to confirm our date for the Midterm on March 27. May be we will also have a quiz before break, on Th. March 13.

Quiz

Marhaba Ya Shebaab

Ila Tullaabi Fi 402:

Please get together and know the following temareen:
Temreen 8, Safha 8
Temreen 14, Safha 15
Temreen 4, Safha 22
Temreen 5, Safha 26

Please review and understand the rules of Al-Jam' ( plurals ) especially the rule that says to treat a non-human plural as though it was a singular feminine, when it comes to using an adjective that follows.

Ila Tullabi Fi 504

Please review your vocab from Ch. 10, and study the following Temareen:
Temreen 1, Safha 169
Temreen 9, Safha 175
Temreen 11, Safha 178

Hadh Sa'eed

News

Dear students,

We will have a quiz on Tuesday, Feb.26 covering the material from this semester thus far. It will only be from your temareen ( exercises) material.

Also, I'm including a news website for your interest.

504 students, please scroll down this site, and pick a short story to bring to class to share. Try to read it on your own first, and come with and idea as to what it's about.


http://raya.com/mritems/streams/2008/2/16/2_324407_1_212.pdf

No class today

Dear students,

I am so sorry to be canceling class this late. I've been waiting to see if there was going to be any change in the weather. But I just talked to another professor at UNH, and she strongly advised me against coming.

One reason for my hesitation to cancel, was my guilt feeling about having missed all these classes. I just wanted you to know, that if you can figure out some time in your schedules to meet extra time, just for a while, on T, W, or Th, I will be happy to do that. Think it over, and we can talk about that tomorrow.

Those of you that have the class e-mail list, please do everyone a favor and tell them there's no class today.

I'll see you tomorrow.

I'm feeling optimistic

A'izza'ee Al-Tullab,

It sure has been a taxing couple of weeks for me, both physically and mentally. My brother, sister and I, along with our mom and beloved families held a very wonderful and moving memorial service for our dear father at my house. This was one of very many that were held, both throughout many parts of his homeland, Iraq, as well as in other parts of the world.

Today, and in anticipation of coming back to teaching you, I'm spending a good deal of time to prepare your lesson plans.

As you've learned from the last two weeks, it is imperative to always consult this site for announcements on regular basis.

As of now, and if things out of the ordinary don't interfere in the way things are going, I will be seeing you tomorrow. I look forward to that.

Ruwa's latest health report

Ahlan,

Well, my head still feels full, my ears still feel full, the sneezing, coughing, nose blowing (yuck) are all alive and well. It's not a pretty picture. Trust me, you don't want to be around me yet, nor do you want to catch this monster of a virus.

So in the hopes that this will be the last time, for a while, that I will have to cancel our class, we will skip today.

I look forward to a fresh start with you on Tuesday, Inshaa' Allah.

In the meanwhile, keep studying on your own, so that at least the material will be familiar when we cover it together, and keep taking those immune system boosters you were advising me to take.

Ilalliqaa' Fee Youm Al-Thalathaa'

Update

My dear students,

We buried my dear dad yesterday, and this accursed virus is slowly beginning to leave my body. My sincere hope is to be strong enough to be with you tomorrow, Thursday. But please, check this site, as you always should, before coming to class.

I miss you all.

There's been a death in the family

Dear students,

I regret to inform you that there will be no class on Tuesday, Feb 5.
My dear father has passed away.
I hope that I will have the time and presence of mind to keep you informed as to when I can come back. If you see no announcements on this site, please check with the LLC department for further notice.
Meanwhile, please please please, continue studying on your own.

Article

Dear students,

This is the article that I told you about. Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Worth-t.html?scp=1&sq=learning+arabic&st=nyt

A new week, a new start

Ahlan ya shabaab

I hope you all enjoyed this little break from Arabic. I also hope that you will spend the next few days, if you haven't already, reviewing and looking ahead in your textbook , so as not to be too rusty when we reconvene. I expect that I will pick up where we left off, and move on, full speed, into what's next. So it would be helpful, to yourselves as well as to me, if you prepared.

I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.

Still ill

Dear 402 and 504 students,

To my great frustration, I'm still very sick, and so there will be no more class on Thursday, Jan 31.

Wednesday's class cancelled

Dear 402 students,

I regret to inform you that I'm forced to extend your vacation from Arabic one more day.
Hope to see you on Thursday, Inshaa Allah .

No class today, Tuesday Jan 29

Dear students in Arabic 402 and 504,

I've been battling a bad virus, and can't shake it off. I will not be able to come to class today. Please compose yourselves, keep a stiff upper lip and try to conceal your sadness.