Kuwaiti Arabic
Kuwaiti Arabic Course
The Kuwaiti dialect is a comprehensive name for a group of six dialects of Arabic origin. By virtue of its practice of trade, travel and openness to many neighboring countries such as Arabia, the Indian subcontinent and Persia, the people of Kuwait sang their dialect with many terms of various origins.
About the Kuwaiti Arabic course
Please note that this course will be with a live instructor, it is not a recorded video or audio. You will meet on specific fixed time and day every week or however frequently your class is. Class day and time will be determine by you and the instructor during your enrollment.
If you can’t read Arabic, not necessarily understand every word you read, or you use to know how from your previous studies but now you are not certain about your reading skill, we strongly recommend taking an introductory MSA course before you begin the Kuwaiti dialect course, The reason is the Kuwaiti dialect textbook is entirely written in Arabic script without transliterations for all Arabic content. If you are not sure of your Arabic language reading skills skill please give us a call for a five minutes chat.
Kuwait has six dialects, there are major differences between them, this course will introduce you to Kuwaiti Arabic using the dialect of Kuwait city which they call it civilized or city language. The aim of the course is to build your vocabulary and introduce you to common greetings and expressions. To this purpose, it features full-length situational conversations pertaining to daily life in Kuwait. This method was chosen in order for you to learn vocabulary and expressions in context. The lessons are entertaining and reflect authentic dialect usage. Grammar and phonetics will be explained in context.
We also recommend, for the sake of having a strong Arabic language skills, not to abandon your MSA studies because all dialect use a combination of spoken format and MSA in both vocabulary and pronunciation, that will make both form of your Arabic stronger. Generally speaking, an educated Arab speaking format is semi-formal, i.e. not overly colloquial but also not purely MSA.
Days/Time:
TBD
Duration:
Five consecutive classes per term. Lessons take place once a week and last two hours each. This gives a total of 10 hours tuition.
Course tuition:
$500
Textbook:
Kuwaiti Arabic
Instructor: A Ph.D instructor, TBD.
Quorum Requirement:
One student.
Meeting place:
Online