Arabic 401 Midterm

The midterm has been rescheduled, by request from the students, to Thursday October 29.

Scholarships for intensive summer institute

2010 CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR INTENSIVE SUMMER INSTITUTES (CLS)
Scholarship Competition Announcement
ARABIC ● AZERBAIJANI ● BANGLA/BENGALI ● CHINESE ● HINDI ● INDONESIAN
JAPANESE ● KOREAN ● PERSIAN ● PUNJABI ● RUSSIAN ● TURKISH ● URDU
Countries may include: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, Oman,
Russia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, or others where the target languages are spoken.
www.CLScholarship.org
The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the upcoming scholarship competition for overseas intensive
summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2010. The on-line application for CLS
Program awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009. The selection
process will be administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with awards approved by the
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The CLS Program is administered by CAORC and
the American Councils for International Education. Please visit www.CLScholarship.org for more information regarding the
online application and selection process.
Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment
experiences for seven to ten weeks. Levels available for each language are as follows:
 Arabic: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
 Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
 Azerbaijani, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.
The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying
and mastering critical need foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply.
Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical
language skills in their future professional careers.
Eligibility: All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a U.S. degree-granting program at
the undergraduate* or graduate level. All candidates must have completed at least their first year of university-level study by
the summer of 2010. Students in all disciplines including business, engineering, sciences, social sciences and humanities are
encouraged to apply. Please see detailed eligibility requirements on our website at www.CLScholarship.org.
*Only graduate students and graduating seniors are eligible to apply to the summer 2010 Persian program.
The U.S. Department of State and CAORC welcome all eligible applications and do not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, gender, age, or handicap condition.
Grant Benefits: All CLS Program costs are covered for participants including: travel to and from the student's U.S. home
city and program location, a mandatory Washington, D.C. pre-departure orientation, applicable visa fees, room, board, groupbased
intensive language instruction, program-sponsored travel within country, and all entrance fees for CLS Program
cultural enhancement activities. Note: U.S. passport fees will not be paid by the scholarship.
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Outreach and Selection administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Application: On-line application will be available November 9, 2009. Deadline to
apply will be December 18, 2009. Please visit our website for updates:
www.CLScholarship.org

Information meeting on Thursday November 19,at 12:40pm at MUB 233 with Andrea Turpin, a representative of this program from the US State Department.

Sholarships meeting

Dear students,طلابي الاعزاء

Please find below an announcement for the upcoming meeting for the critical languages scholarship.



From: Reardon, Lawrence
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:48 AM
To: 'cola.polt@lists.unh.edu'
Subject: Scholarships for critical languages meeting



Confirm: majors



Are any of you are interested in applying for a scholarship to learn a new foreign language, such as:



African languages (selected)
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic*
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cambodian
Cantonese
Croatian
Czech
Gan
Georgian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Japanese
Javanese
Kanarese
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lingala
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Mandarin
Moldovan
Mongolian
Pashto
Persian**
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Swahili
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Telegu
Thai
Turkmen
Turkish
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese


The US government is providing such scholarships under the David L. Boren Scholarships for undergraduate students. The Political Science department already has two students who have received Boren Scholarships—one who went to Japan for a semester, and the other is currently spending a year in Cairo studying Arabic. For more general information, go to: http://www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship



The upcoming competition will be for study abroad grants in summer and fall 2010 and spring 2011. Sheila McCurdy and I will be running an information session is scheduled for Thursday, October 29 at 12:30 in Hood House 226. The campus application deadline for the Boren Scholarship is December 15, 2009. We hope to see you there – and please spread the word.



If you can’t make this meeting, come to see me ASAP during my office hours (T 11.10-12.30 Hood House; R 11.10-12.30 Horton). Or you can email.



Best,



CReardon





Lawrence C. Reardon

Hood House Professor

Department of Political Science

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824-3586

USA

Tel. 603.862.1750

Fax. 603.862.0178

Email chris.reardon@unh.edu

My office

أهلا

I have moved my office to 210C. Same office hours.

For your Midterm

Arabic 401,

Let's stop at the end of Unit 6, for both vocabulary and spelling.

Arabic 503,

It is apparent to me from correcting your homework, that you need to go back further in your reviewing for the Midterm. Many of you will need to go back to page 57 to review الفعل المضارعand its conjugation.

A gift from Alisha

Arabic 503,

Alisha was kind enough to share with you the site below. It might be a fun way to help you learn your new vocabulary. Enjoy !


http://quizlet.com/149336/al-kitaab-part-1-chapter-9-flash-cards/

Preparation for class

Ahlan Ya Tullaab Fi Arabic 401,

I need you to go back and review "ghayn" for class on Wednesday. Read the manner of production, in addition to using the alphabet chart to watch, listen and practice saying it. Then go back to "raa" and do the same to contrast the two. Unless you do that, you will always have a problem with these and other sounds that are difficult for you to produce. We can go back and practice in class over and over, but that will never suffice.

اهلا يا طلاب في Arabic 503,

For class on Thursday,

I need you to go over تمرين 3, and familiarize yourselves with how to translate it. That way when we do it in class, we don't take too long. Make sure you know your new المفردات. We will also be doing تمرين 6 in class. In order for you to memorize the verb chart on page 149, you must know how to conjugate Kaana كان. Please go back and read that section if you don't feel very sure about it.

A fun read

A'izzaa'i Al-Tullaab,

Please find below a blog site that tells about a young man's, almost daily, impressions of his visit to Egypt. Hope you enjoy it.

http://lawremzofarabia.blogspot.com/

Study Abroad

Ahlan Yaa Shebaab,

Please find below information, that I hope will be useful in guiding you to take your first steps in planning your study abroad program.


. Here are some suggestions:

1. The first step is to attend the study abroad sessions conducted every Thursday, 1:00 in McConnell Hall RM 312 by Mr. Jeff Sherman. There is lots of preparation involved, and you’ll need to know the details…even if you are a freshman. For more information, see http://www.unh.edu/cie/studyabroad/planning.html



2. You need to check out the study abroad materials located at the Center for International Education’s library on the second floor of Hood House, which includes various academic programs in Asia.



3. There are several opportunities to finance your trip. Consider the following:



4. The Boren Scholarship http://www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship. Usually students apply to go in their junior year, and there is a time commitment to work with the US government. An information session at Hood House will be conducted at the end of October/beginning of November . Deadline is Feb 10, 2010.



5. A new initiative is the National Language Service Corps, which will provide jobs for students who are competent in the critical languages. For more information, see http://www.nsep.gov/corps/index.html



6. Also consider applying to the various Fulbright programs to conduct research or to teach English. For more information, go to: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/overview.html or see Sheila McCurdy at Hood House.

Upcoming Quiz

Marhaba Ya Tullaab Fi Arabic 401,

You will have a couple of short quizzes coming up. The first one will be on Thursday October 8. This will be on your new vocabulary from page 57, on up through the end of chapter 5. The quiz after that will be on dictations drills starting with drill 10 on page 60, and all the way through chapter 5. This quiz will be on Tuesday October 13.

Ahlan Ya Tullaab Fi Arabic 503,

You have two quizzes coming up.

You will do Tamreen 17, Safha 141, and bring it to class on Thursday October 8. This will count as a take-home quiz. You will have to review the verb chart on page 130 for that. Your other quiz will be on Tuesday October 13. This will be on material from chapter 8.