A gift from Corey for your project

Digital Flash cards available from any computer or mobile device browser are now available for Units 6 and 7. http://iflipr.com/deck/search?query=UNH+Ruwa
I suggest using the http://www.alkitaabtextbook.com/books/ website to hear the sound of the word if you are unsure.

New stuff:
Color coding is the same as the book. Green is Egyptian, Purple is Levantine, Blue is formal.
If you are only focusing on one dialect just click the green "Correct" mark for cards you dont care to learn and you wont be asked them again.

Ruwa suggested going over all of our vocab to get an idea of what language we have available to us for the final. This may be a good use of these decks.

Please notify me of any mistakes you find.

Respectfully,

Corey Nesk

A wonderful opportunity

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University is pleased
to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 Qatar
Scholarship Program.

The Qatar Scholarship Program offers dedicated Arabic language students from
the United States the opportunity to master their skills in an intensive
Arabic language program at Qatar University (QU) in Doha for an entire
academic year (September to June). The scholarship includes tuition, room
and board in university dorms, round-trip airfare, local transportation, and
books.

Interested students must have obtained a Bachelor's degree by the beginning
of the program, have two years of formal Arabic study, and be at the
intermediate level of proficiency in Arabic.

Please share this opportunity with anyone in your department who may be
interested. Attached to this email is a PDF formatted flyer for
distribution.

For more information, please visit:

http://ccas.georgetown.edu/academics/scholarships/qsprogram/

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding the Qatar
Scholarship Program.

Sincerely,

Qatar Scholarship Program
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University
241 ICC
37th and O Sts., NW
Washington, DC 20057
qatarscholar@georgetown.edu


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After Thanksgiving

Dear students:

Due to the many hard circumstances that I've been dealing with relating to my move, and the lack of sleep resulting from that, I feel unfit and unable to teach today. Please continue with studying the material on your own, as though we were in class. You would be doing me and yourselves a favor by doing so, because when we come back from عيد الشكر hopefully better rested, we can go about finishing our material full speed.

Monday calss and final presentations

اهلا يا شباب

Arabic 401:

Please come to class on Monday, having prepared to share your written composition (in fuSHa)with class. You're not required to memorize it, however, please familiarize yourselves with it, so that you're comfortable reading it in class.

Also, I wanted us to talk about the final presentation. This Monday's take-home quiz is meant to be a good practice for that. Your final presentation will be a better, more substantial form of this quiz. Let's talk some more about that in class tomorrow.

Arabic 503:

There will not be a class on Monday,November 22, due to the need to be at the inspection of my new home. I do hope for your forgiveness.

Please come to class on Tuesday, having memorized your new مفردات. We will also talk about your final presentation. It will be a composed piece, much like your Midterm paper, which will use a healthy and rich variety of concepts and vocabulary. This will show me the extent to which, you've both learned and reviewed, your material from this semester. You will of course be expected to read it in class, and so your oral presentation will count for 50% of your grade.

We'll have the chance to talk about that in class on Tuesday.

preparing for Monday's class

طلابي الاعزاءفي 503

Please come to class having viewed القصة as many times as it takes, to be able to answer the questions. To aid you in this process, please use تمرين21 which we did in class. Please rehearse, so that you feel at ease using your language skills in class tomorrow. Let's have fun.

Tullaabi fii 401 :

Please familiarize yourselves with your skits to the point of feeling comfortable talking, as though in a real invironment. Try to use as many of your vocabulary words from throughout the semester. We will spend a lot of time on vocab, both Egyptian and fuSHa, and skits in class tomorrow. I look forward to having fun with you.

Monday

اهلا يا طلاب

Arabic 401:

I'm looking forward to having fun watching your skits, using as much as possible of your new and old vocabulary.

Arabic 503:

Please have ALL your new vocabulary be memorized, so that we can do some translation with ease. Also, bring any questions you have about the take-home quiz to class.

Mond

1001 inventions: Science in Muslim lands

The 1001 Inventions US Exhibit is approaching. You can sign up to be notified of the status here:

http://www.nysci.org/visit/1001-inventions-sign-up

upcoming quiz

Marhaba

Arabic 401,

Your quiz on Monday will be on the vocabulary words in the list we compiled in class from unit 6. This means that you might be asked to spell as well as define these words.

Arabic 503,

For your quiz on Tuesday, Please practice writing sentences combining your مفردات from chapter 11 with the quantifiers.

Your Midterm

ahlan ya shabaab.

I wanted to wish you luck on your Midterm. Also, I wanted to remind you, especially my students in 401, to practice reading your composition, so that you gain the confidence you need for tomorrow's presentation. NO TRANSLITERATION PLEASE !

HaTH sa'iid

The Lion King in Arabic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFReeDTJmiQ&feature=related

Quiz on Thursday, October 14

ahlan ya shabaab اهلا يا شباب

Tullaabi fii Arabic 401:

Your quiz on Thursday will be dictation on the new definitions in Unit 5 that include "shedda" "seen" and "sheen". I counted 15 in total. So you will be given dictation from that list, as well as a vocab section asking you about words from the same list.

طلابي في 503:

Your امتحان will be on your المفردات و المضارع المنصوب from chapter 10. You will be asked a task much like what we did in class with تمرين 9.

Midterm

أهلا يا شباب ahlan ya shabaab

I would like to make two announcements:

- There will be no class on Wednesday,October 20.

- Your midterm; a written piece that will be orally presented in class, will be on Monday, October 18.

We will have a chance to talk about both these points in class.

Arabic 401 Quiz

Ahalan Ya Tullaab fii Arabic 401,

Please prepare for your next dictation quiz on Wednesday, September 29, which covers Unit 4.

Corey's flash cards

Ahlan my fellow student,


I’ve created computerized flashcards that are accessible from any computer or mobile device. I will be adding to this collection of “digital card decks” as the semester goes on as well as into next semester of Arabic. I can see that some have already started using them.

The decks currently include:

-Units 1-3 vocab from charts

-Unit 4's numeral chart

-All of the vocab we can write out plus additional words given to us by Ruwa (this deck will grow as the year goes on)

This list will grow as the year goes on.



To access the files go to http://www.iFlipr.com

Then click Decks, then search, then type UNH. You will see the decks there.

There is a 5 dollar iphone app available as well that will load faster than using your mobile phone browser.

I only ask that as a service you email me and correct me when you have found a mistake and in addition help me start an Arabic support group to work on homework together even if its over web cams. Thank you.

cpk26@unh.edu
--
Corey P. Neskey

For Monday

Aizzaai-Tullaab fi Arabic 401,

In addition to coming on Monday well prepared with written sentences of greetings and introductions to activate in class, I would like to remind you of the following. Do drill 9, and drill 10 , and practice reading the words in drill 11. We will go over all that in class.

اعزائي الطلاب في Arabic 503,

Don't forget to review your المفردات, and learn the Ordinal Numbers, as well as study "What time is it?"

Two IA alumni give public talks

A public talk that two IA alumni will give on October 8 from 10:00 to 11:30 am at the Mub Entertainment Center.

Daniel Hilliard (’88), an international studies and political science major, is executive director of the Zoo Conservation Outreach Group, an organization affiliated with the Audubon Zoo and concerned with the preservation of species in Latin America. He is an adjunct assistant professor at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute.
Robert Leavitt (’88), who paired his international affairs major with English, works in the White House where he is a National Security Council director for Africa.

I can imagine that the career paths of those 2 men may be an inspiration for a lot of our dual IA and language majors. For more information please go to:

http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2010/Sep/22affairs.cfm

1001 inventions: Science in Muslim lands

Dear Students,

This wonderful exhibition will be coming to New York city soon. It will be held at the New York Hall of Science, the first week of December, 2010.

Reminders

Ahlan ya Tullaab,

Dear students in Arabic 401,

In addition to your dictation quiz on unit 3, please begin studying unit 4, and keep reviewing your old vocabulary.

Dear students in Arabic 503,

In addition to your quiz, please learn your مفردات from chapter 9, and practice them by doing تمرين 2. Any chance you get, review your old vocabulary, and use them with the new in your imaginary conversations, if you're not getting together with others in group study. I hope that you do have groups that meet on regular basis to practice your Arabic. It is essential to your learning, and level of comfort with the language.

TA's latest news

Ahlan,

Faris will not hold office hours tomorrow, Friday September 17, due to a doctor's appointment. He also has moved his area of work, for meeting with you, to the third floor of Murkland.