 This is supposed to be Arabic. Well, to tell you the truth, I don't speak Arabic at all, but I do know a lot about it. For example, I know that adjectives follow their nouns, that the word order of Arabic is, Well, before I tell you, I'd rather invite you to find out yourself and welcome you to another truly exploratory online course, The Linguistic Fieldwork Course, VLC 403 Linguistic Fieldwork Arabic. Like all fieldwork courses on the Virtual Linguistics Campus, VLC 403 simulates this situation. You are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and you want to explore the language to which you are exposed. This is the classical fieldwork setup known since the heydays of Joseph Greenberg and Edward Sapir. By means of interaction with a native speaker who neither speaks nor understands your language, you want to find out as many details about his or her language as possible. In a real fieldwork situation, you collect your data in various live meetings with a native speaker. On the Virtual Linguistics Campus, we do it online, by means of a virtual speaker in various virtual settings where you can retrieve and explore the data by a mouse click. And this is how the content of VLC 403 Arabic, like in all other fieldwork courses on the Virtual Linguistics Campus, is organized. As usual, we start with a general description and the preliminaries that provide a general overview of the course including the prerequisites. The first content unit is theoretical and of utmost importance for all fieldwork activities. It discusses some general aspects of the language in focus and introduces the underlying methodology from phonetics to syntax and makes you fit for the exploratory part of the course. The core of the course are the fieldwork units, each with an exploratory part, the so-called virtual scene, which is dedicated to a particular topic. The first scene deals with simple objects. In our virtual interview room, you find the native speaker and a number of clickable objects with their audio and orthographic representation. Your first task is to transcribe what you hear as carefully as possible in order to develop a first sound inventory of the language in focus. Further scenes deal with number, with adjectives, for example the colors, with locative relationships and the organization of ad-positional phrases and even with sentences that are acted out by a second speaker. Starting with the second explorative unit, each unit has a hypothesis section where the previous assumptions and speculations are not only summarized but are also judged by the native speaker. All units or topics are activated in a successive fashion, that is in contrast to many other VLC courses you cannot access the units all at once but only successively. This guarantees that students first build their hypotheses before they see the solutions. For example, the unit number can only be accessed if two previous activities are completed and the subsequent unit adjectives is only available if vocabulary test. One is passed successfully and the exploration activity of the previous unit was marked as successful. But don't worry, each vocabulary mastery test where you can earn a digital badge is easy to manage. In each unit you find the complete list of vocabulary items that have been collected up to that point enabling you to practice and to prepare yourself for the test. The VLC fieldwork courses are true online courses. They do not involve any face-to-face tuition. Everything should be self-explanatory. However, it is recommended to use the repository forum in the class preliminaries to discuss questions with your fellow participants or even the social media. And on top of that, each fieldwork course has its customized workbook. It can be downloaded from the preliminary section and summarizes the main aspects of each unit in print, but even more importantly, it contains dozens of tables and charts where you can drop your data. Last but not least, the course is certified. Beyond the digital badges that you can obtain via the mastery tests, each fieldwork class is certified with a statement of accomplishment that lists the content and specifies the workload in hours. And as usual, course enrollment is simple. You only have to create your free VLC account first and then self-enroll to your fieldwork class by clicking on the course tile. That's it. And in the course you will be welcomed by the real native speaker. So that's it. See you in VLC 403 Arabic.