Arabic course materials
SOAS Language Centre Arabic courses materials
Course materials are not included in the course fee and can be purchased from the SOAS bookshop, email: bookshop@soas.ac.uk or any other source you can find.
Material covered in all Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) courses
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Level |
Units |
Course materials |
|---|---|---|
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MSA Beginners 1 |
1 to 8 |
Wightwick, Jane, and Mahmoud Gaafar. Mastering Arabic 1. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Beginners 2 |
8 to 14 |
Wightwick, Jane, and Mahmoud Gaafar. Mastering Arabic 1. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Beginners 3 |
1 to 5 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Elementary 1 |
6, 7, 8
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Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Elementary 2 |
9,10, 11 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Elementary 3 |
12,13,14 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Pre-Intermediate 1 |
15,16,17 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Pre-Intermediate 2 |
18, 19, 20 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Pre-Intermediate 3 |
1 and 2 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Intermediate 1 |
3 and 4 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Intermediate 2 |
5 and 6 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Intermediate 3 |
7 and 8 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Upper Intermediate 1 |
9 and 10 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Upper Intermediate 2 |
1 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Upper Intermediate 3 |
2 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Pre-Advanced 1 |
3 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Pre-Advanced 2 |
4 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Pre-Advanced 3 |
5 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Advanced 1 |
6 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Advanced 2 |
7 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Advanced 3 |
8 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Proficiency 1 |
9 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Proficiency 2 |
10 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Three. Washington. |
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MSA Proficiency 3 |
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Authentic material provided by the teacher |
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MSA Proficiency Continuers |
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Authentic material provided by the teacher |
Material covered in other Arabic courses
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Language |
Level |
Course materials |
|---|---|---|
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Egyptian Arabic |
Beginners 1 |
Wightwick, Jane, and Mahmoud Gaafar: Colloquial Arabic of Egypt: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge: 3rd Edition, 2015 Plus extra supporting material |
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Egyptian Arabic |
Beginners 2 & 3 |
Wightwick, Jane, and Mahmoud Gaafar: Colloquial Arabic of Egypt: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge: 3rd Edition, 2015 Plus extra supporting material |
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Egyptian Arabic |
Elementary & Intermediate, 1, 2 & 3 |
Louis, Samia, and A Soliman. Kallimni Arabi: An Intermediate Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Egyptian Arabic |
Pre-Intermediate & Upper Intermediate |
Louis, Samia, and Nessim Guirges. Kallimni 'Arabi Aktar: An Upper Intermediate Course In Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Cairo [u.a.]: American Univ. in Cairo Press, 2008. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Egyptian Arabic |
Advanced & Proficiency |
Tonsi, Abbas, and Heba Salem. Umm Al-Dunya. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2012. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Levantine Arabic |
Beginners |
Liddicoat, Mary-Jane, Richard Lennane, and Iman Abdul Rahim. Syrian Colloquial Arabic. Griffith, A.C.T.: M. Liddicoat & R. Lennane, 1999. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
| Levantine Arabic | Elementary |
Liddicoat, Mary-Jane, Richard Lennane, and Iman Abdul Rahim. Syrian Colloquial Arabic. Griffith, A.C.T.: M. Liddicoat & R. Lennane, 1999. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Levantine Arabic |
Pre-Intermediate & Upper Intermediate |
Liddicoat, Mary-Jane, Richard Lennane, and Iman Abdul Rahim. Syrian Colloquial Arabic. Griffith, A.C.T.: M. Liddicoat & R. Lennane, 1999. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Levantine Arabic |
Advanced & Proficiency |
Materials specially created by SOAS teachers. |
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Qur'anic Arabic |
Beginners |
Materials provided by the teacher |
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Qur'anic Arabic |
Elementary |
Materials provided by the teacher |
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Maghrebi Arabic |
Beginners 1 |
Materials specially created by SOAS teachers. |
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Gulf Arabic |
Beginners 1 |
Materials specially created by SOAS teachers. |
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Arabic for Native Speakers |
Elementary 1, 2 & 3 |
Brustad, Kristen, et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Maʻa Aqrāṣ DVD, Part One. 2nd ed. D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. Print. Plus extra supporting material |
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Arabic for Native Speakers |
Intermediate 1, 2 & 3 |
Brustad, Kristen, et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, With DVD, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
Modern Standard Arabic - accelerated courses
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MSA Accelerated Beginners 1 + 2 |
1 to 14 |
Wightwick, Jane, and Mahmoud Gaafar. Mastering Arabic. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Print. Units 1-14 Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Accelerated Beginners 3 + Elementary 1 |
1 to 8 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Accelerated Elementary 2 & 3 |
9 to 14 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Accelerated Pre-Intermediate 1 & Pre-Intermediate 2 |
15 to 20 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Taʻallum Al-ʻarabīyah, Part One. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Accelerated Pre-Intermediate 3 & Intermediate 1 |
1 to 4 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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MSA Accelerated Intermediate 2 & 3 |
5 to 8 |
Brustad, Kristen et al. Al-Kitāb Fī Ta’allum Al-‘arabīyah, Part Two. 2nd ed. Plus extra supporting material |
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