ARABIC LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 2

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: STEFANO LO PRESTI

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to read and understand written and oral texts in standard Arabic on daily and professional topics and to produce complex messages to communicate in a number of topics ;

Students will be introduced to the study of advanced morphologic, syntactic and lexical aspects of standard Arabic and will be able to compare different grammar systems;

Students will be supplied with translation method in order to approach complex texts in literary and hystorical topics and to translate messages from Arabic into Italian and from Italian into Arabic.

Detailed Course Content

·         collective nouns and indeclinable nouns;

·         undefined nouns;

·         the five nouns;

·         relative sentence;

·         declarative sentence;

·         kana and its sisters;

·         inna and its sisters;

·         hal and hal sentence;

·         complements: maf'ul bihimaf'ul fihi li-l-makanmaf'ul fihi li-z-zaman;

·         elative;

·         quadriliterus verbs;

·         twinned verbs;

·         verbs with hamza in its root;

·         weak verbs with first radical waw or ya';

·         weak verbs with second radical waw or ya';

·         use of kana;

·         passive sentence and passive conjugation of regular verbs;

·         introduction to Egyptian Spoken Arabic.

 

 Reading, analysis and translation of texts, particularly literary texts.

Textbook Information

1. M. Ruocco, L. D’Anna, S. Fatayer, Comunicare in arabo, vol. 1, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano 2022;

2. M. Ruocco, D. Potenza, S. Fatayer, M. H. Eid, Comunicare in arabo, vol. 2, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano 2023;

3. M. Ruocco, M. Avino, C. Pinto, F. Aljaramneh, Comunicare in arabo, vol. 3, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano 2024;

4. R. Traini (a cura di), Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, Roma 1966-1973 o successiva edizione;

5.  C. M. Tresso (a cura di), Dizionario italiano-arabo, Hoepli, Milano, 2014.

 

Suggested textbooks:

1. A. Manca, Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letteratio moderno, Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia e Cooperazione Italo-Araba, Roma 1989 o successiva edizione;

2.  L. Veccia Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba - vol. 1, Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, Roma 2011 (II edizione) o successiva edizione;

3.  L. Veccia Vaglieri, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba - vol. 2, Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, Roma 2015 (II edizione).

 

Texts adopted by language experts:

1. Sabir al-Mashrafi, Su‘ad al-Khawli, Abu Uways Mahmud, at-Takallum. A Comprehensive Modern Arabic Course, vol. Elementary A2, Maktabat al-Buruj, al-Qahirah 2022.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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