{"id":372620,"date":"2024-08-21T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=372620"},"modified":"2024-08-22T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:27:57","slug":"jordanian-teaches-arabic-at-brazilian-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/jordanian-teaches-arabic-at-brazilian-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian teaches Arabic at Brazilian university"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 What was first meant to be just a place for learning has become a work and teaching environment for Shatha Jarrar, an Arabic teacher at the Institute of Language Studies of the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB). Five and a half years ago, she was a student in Portuguese classes at the institution, and then she had hoped to become a teacher there. \u201cIt was a dream that finally became a reality,\u201d says Jarrar, who works at the university as a volunteer professor and is the wife of Ambassador Qais Shqair, head of the Arab League Mission in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlmost five years and a half ago, as I was entering the University of Brasilia to study Portuguese, I asked my husband, \u2018Would the day come that I teach Arabic at this prestigious, reputable university?\u2019\u201d she recounts. \u201cThe answer with confidence was: \u2018for sure.\u2019” In fact, last March she joined the institution\u2019s language teaching staff.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Students on a day of learning Arabic at UnB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Jarrar is Jordanian. She studied at Yarmouk University, where she earned her PhD in Arabic Language, Syntax and Morphology. Syntax is the branch of grammar that studies the function of words and their relationships within sentences. Morphology studies the classification of words according to their characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrar went through a selection process at UnB after submitting her resum\u00e9 and expressing her \u201csincere desire to teach.\u201d After the evaluation procedures by the college members, she was approved as a volunteer professor at the Institute of Language Studies and Unb Idiomas<\/a>. Regarding the students and the classes, she says she has been \u201cvery pleased\u201d to teachi the undergraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural exchange through Arabic and Portuguese<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were greatly active, loving learning Arabic, and eager to learn. I was overwhelmed by their quick adaptation with the differences in pronouncing certain unfamiliar sounds for them,\u201d she says. She explains that there are phonemes that produce sounds and pronunciations that are unusual for non-natives, but even with this challenge, her students have shown themselves to be eager and passionate about learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrar has already taught students at level 1. Starting in September, new level 1 Arabic classes will begin, and in October, level 2 classes will start. She says she intends to implement the European standard for language teaching and reveals that, in addition to being a teacher, she is responsible for publishing a book on teaching Arabic exclusively for Brazilians, with three basic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her studies in Brazil, Jarrar identified over four thousand Portuguese words that have their roots in Arabic. \u201cThat is indeed an extra motive for me to teach Arabic to further spread the diverse Arabic culture, for an ultimate goal of a genuine cultural exchange with the rich derivative Portugues language with its vast linguistic lexicon,\u201d she says, referring to the variety of words in the Portuguese language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:
Arabic, Portuguese: Similarities beyond language<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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