Offers courses to learn Arabic in Amman, Jordan and Tetouan, Morocco. The class is held in the popular areas of the city.
Includes 4 hrs/day or more in a classroom environment, excursions with less than 5 students.
Accreditation: Instituto Cervantes
Academic credit: Yes, through Brookhaven College
Accommodation: Homestay (no Male homestays in Jordan) or shared/private apartment.
Duration: 2 weeks or more
Prices: from $570 and up
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Language Booking provides an arabic course based on the Yemeni dialect created for high school and college students, adults,
Pricing improves when more weeks are booked and they offer a "best price guarantee"
Course locations: Yemen
Levels: general or basic.
Duration: 1 week to 52 weeks
Class size: 5 to 9
Lessons per week: 1 -9
Accreditation: Yes, too many to list
Academic credit: ???
Accommodation: school residence.
Costs: from $86 per week includes accommodation
Often a person who speaks Arabic will answer most conversational questions such as ("How are you?" "How was the trip?", etc) initially with "Praise be to God…" ("...I am good." "...it was fine."...). In Arabic this translates to, "Al Hamdu lillaah…"
"Latifah" in Arabic means "friendly, pretty, gentle"
"Hassan" means "handsome, good"
"Shaquille" means "well-formed, handsome"
Arabic Farewells: "Ma'a Salaamah" ("go with safety"), and "Allaah Ma'aak" ("God be with you")
Is Arabic hard to learn?
The answer to that is yes and no. A lot of variables can make it easy or difficult. Arabic will be easy to learn if you know how to speak Hebrew, and it is hard if you are a native speaker of a romance language like Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and English. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic have been labeled as "category 3" languages by the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute which means it is extremely difficult for native English speakers to become fluent. Yet, there are native-English speakers who are fluent.
For that reason, based upon one's native language, and how they fair when learning another language, Arabic may be a very challenging language to master. Having said that, there are many native English speakers who have attained fluency in Arabic. You simply have to devote considerably more time and energy into studying Arabic as opposed to an Indo-European language. The will and desire to learn and attain a goal will get you there with persistence.
The Arabic alphabet does come across as overwhelming while the standard Chinese language lacks an alphabet altogether. Everything becomes easier with practice.
What's the best way to learn Arabic?
An intensive language program is optimal and recommended as you are living in the environment day in and day out, learning little idiosyncracies of people, possible slang and nuances you'll likely never experience in a classroom not based in the country you want to learn the language from.
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