languages from Asia and Africa to adult English speakers. Courses range from total beginners to intermediate and advanced levels teaching students how to speak, and courses that teach script, read and write the new language (with high emphasis on conversational skills using communicative interactive techniques, role play and audio and video instructional tools).
For Arabic classes we currently have two different streams of Arabic language courses (these two streams DO complement each other and build different but complementary language skills for anyone who wants to learn Arabic as a language to be used and not just studied for research, etc.):
- Colloquial Conversational Arabic courses: Strictly conversational colloquial Arabic courses which teach how to converse in Egyptian/Massri, Levantine Arabic and Gulf/Iraqi Arabic (you do not learn how to read or write, or speak Modern Standard Arabic which is the formal and only form of written Arabic, language of the news, newspapers, books, formal meetings, etc. and understood by the whole Arab world). These courses can be viewed as intensive language labs of dialogues and role play in colloquial Arabic.
- Modern Standard Arabic courses: (Read, write and speak MSA which is the language of the news, schools, books, formal meetings, only form of written Arabic. Some major dialects will be touched upon from time to time as possible in classes but the main focus is MSA.)
The Centre also can offer custom designed courses for travel, business, media and journalism, activists, researchers or cultural notes and business etiquette in group or private sessions.
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