The Excellence Center in Palestine

Over the past three years I have been trying and switching learning methods regularly. It gave me a basic vocabulary, but when I tried to speak my mind freezed. My teacher Duha helped me to overcome that obstacle. I noticed that she really made an effort to 'read' me. To try and find out which pace, variation and challenges work for me. The frustration I often felt when learning Arabic disappeared because I became confident I was making progress. I hope to continue soon, this time in Hebro...

I’ve taken standard Arabic classes before but wanted to focus on being able to speak better and specifically in the Palestinian dialect to understand the older generation of my family. Saja was my teacher and she helped me feel more confident in speaking even if I made mistakes. She helped me with grammar and vocabulary and using dialect instead of the standard which is more helpful to communicate with others. I’ve noticed I can understand more when people talk to me and I can form sentences bet...

I have been reading at an intermediate level in Arabic for many years. It was mostly an internal process, my lips moving but making no sounds. If you are familiar with the stories of Juha, I often felt Juha-like; mumbling and rambling through the printed word expecting some comprehensible sounds to come out. Most of the times none ever did. Then, one time glancing through the internet reading Juha-like, I came across these courses at GoAbroad. Deciding I could do no worse than I have been d...