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000 20h Levantine Arabic Training Course

For a complete beginner, I suggest we divide the training into 10 × 2-hour sessions. Each session will combine:

  1. Listening & pronunciation

  2. Useful spoken phrases

  3. Vocabulary

  4. Grammar through patterns

  5. Reading Arabic

  6. Speaking drills

  7. Active recall

  8. A short review/test

The objective after 20 hours is not fluency. It is to reach a practical beginner level where you can introduce yourself, understand and produce basic sentences, ask simple questions, handle everyday situations, and start reading unfamiliar Arabic words.

20-hour roadmap

Session Main objective
1 — 2h Arabic sounds, alphabet foundations, greetings, ana / inta, basic sentences
2 — 2h Family, people, possession, huwwe / hiyye, “this/that”
3 — 2h Numbers, time, age, money
4 — 2h Food, coffee, restaurant, ordering
5 — 2h Home, objects, locations, fi / ma fi
6 — 2h Daily routine, present-tense verbs
7 — 2h Going places, transport, directions
8 — 2h Past tense + talking about yesterday
9 — 2h Wants, needs, likes, dislikes, ability
10 — 2h Consolidation + real-life conversations

We'll use Levantine Arabic, with a pronunciation system that is easy for a French/English speaker to use initially. I will also show the Arabic script, because your goal is eventually to read without depending on transliteration.