Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers of
German (with focus on Syrian Arabic)
Anja Penssler-Beyer ‫باير‬ ‫بنسلر‬ ‫انيا‬
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#DEU4ARAB
‫األ‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫متعلمي‬ ‫للسوريين‬ ‫متباين‬ ‫بشكل‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫نطق‬ ‫تدريب‬‫لمانية‬

Starting Point
Target Group
Study Tools

Traditional Language Classes
 Indo-European
 16 Monophthongs
 4 Diphthongs
 Verb-second language
 Afro-Asiatic
 3 monophthongs
 6 diphthongs
 VSO
Arabic
 Afro-Asiatic
 7 monophthongs
 No diphthongs
 SOV
Tigrinya
 Indo-European
 6 monophthongs
 2 - 5 diphthongs
 SOV
Farsi/Dari

Contrastive Speech Training
 Afro-Asiatic
 3 Monophthongs
 No Diphthongs
 VSO
 Indo-European
 16 monophthongs
 4 diphthongs
 Verb-second
‫األ‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫متعلمي‬ ‫للسوريين‬ ‫متباين‬ ‫بشكل‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫نطق‬ ‫تدريب‬‫لمانية‬

Developers
 20 years of expertise
 online-classes since 1998
 Linguistics/Phonetics
 Contrastive Didactics
 MOOCs/pMOOCs
FLOCKs, 2-in-1 classes
 Semitic Studies (Arabic)
 Development of an online platform
 Programming
 Web-Development
 MOOC-provider

Our Platform

The Class
Communication of Contents Deepen what you have learned Incentives

Course Material
6 introduction videos
49 contrastive videos
125 A4 text pages
72 German A-to-Z Videos
Facebook-group #DEU4ARAB
by

Anja Penssler-Beyer
apebe@staff.uni-marburg.de
Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers of
German (with focus on Syrian Arabic)
#DEU4ARAB
‫األ‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫متعلمي‬ ‫للسوريين‬ ‫متباين‬ ‫بشكل‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫نطق‬ ‫تدريب‬‫لمانية‬

Anja Penssler-Beyer ‫باير‬ ‫بنسلر‬ ‫انيا‬
apebe@staff.uni-marburg.de
Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers of
German (with focus on Syrian Arabic)
#Workshop Task(s)
‫األ‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫متعلمي‬ ‫للسوريين‬ ‫متباين‬ ‫بشكل‬ ‫اللغة‬ ‫نطق‬ ‫تدريب‬‫لمانية‬
1. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Contrastive
Pronunciation Trainings (of endangered languages)
2. Start with developing a contrastive pronunciation training for
your native language compared to language X (all search
engines allowed)