Special Courses (MSA or ECA or other colloquial dialects)

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This is for tailored courses upon the student's request, such as:
-Arabic Conversation Courses:
For both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Dialects, this class is targeting the student’s communicative skills. If the student desires a more effective way to enhance and strengthen Her/his fluency in the Arabic language, this is a perfect way to interact and target specific language areas. The dialogues are built on the courses’ contents and accommodate the student’s needs and requirements.

-Arabic Culture Classes:
This content-based course is designed for the high intermediate and advanced students to further develop their Arabic language comprehension and interaction skills both written and oral. Materials are selected from a range of text types in any of Colloquial, Modern, Classical Arabic. Selected materials and activities aimed at raising students’ awareness of the more subtle and implicit cultural patterns as manifested in the Arabic texts and media. The course content is designed around the theme of “Arabic Cultural Encounters with West” in order to allow for critical reading and viewing of course materials and to facilitate cross-cultural reflections in a form of discussions, presentations, translations, and written assignments.

-Arabic Translation Courses:
The purpose of this course is to help students in interpretation through discussing more categories that are specific during classes such as:

1) Basic notions:

Source language.
Target language.
Different discourse and different style.
2) Difficulties encountered in translation and specifics of the two languages concerned:

Ambiguous sentences and homophones.
3) exercises with short newspaper texts:

Idioms and sentence structure in both English and Arabic.
The course will allow students to use a wide variety of subjects such as texts of political, social, cultural, or general interest.

-Business Arabic Courses:
The purpose of this course is to help students in reading and understanding, as well as writing well developed, and well-organized letters, reports, and other commercial documents. In addition, the student will be learning special business phrases that help in the usage of the Arabic language. Moreover, the course contains different exercises and case studies for more exposure to real-life situations.

-Arabic Literature Courses:
The purpose of this course is to help students in reading and understanding Modern Arabic literature through reading, understanding, and analyzing selective modern novels and Arabic poetics and poems.

-MSA/ECA Media Courses:
These courses’ materials are books, news, TV shows and films, targeting the Media language. The course is designed to help students who are interested in journalism, press and understanding the news and media language.

-History:
The purpose of this course is to help students who are interested in the Middle East History and the Arabic countries’ history through reading, understanding, and analyzing selective books and texts about the history in these areas. Student should be intermediate or advanced in Arabic.

-Quranic Arabic:
This course is for those who are interested in the Quranic Arabic and understanding its language. In addition, we offer courses for Biblical Arabic too upon the student’s request, with no addition fees. The teachers help in translating parts of the religious text to facilitate further understanding of the scriptures. Student will be also capable of learning different aspects of the Quranic Arabic language like: Tajweed, Hefz and Telawah.

-Sudanese Arabic Dialect:
There are two levels, novice and intermediate to learn the Sudanese dialect of Khartoum. It is the widespread spoken Arabic dialect in Sudan. The materials are targeting daily life conversations to enable the student to easily communicate in the Sudanese dialect. Each course has a book with listening tracks.

-Other Colloquial Dialects:
Though the Egyptian Colloquial Arabic is the most spoken and understood all over Arab countries, each country speaks its own Colloquial dialect. ATO presents courses for most of the Arabic dialects, such as: Levantine, Gulf area, Saudi Arabia.. etc.

-Children's Course:
This course targets children who have or do not have a background in the Arabic language.
We offer a selection of tutors who have the tools necessary to teach children from K-12.
Choose your tutor:

Heba Sadek
Mai Ehsan
Thouraya Kotite
Nashwa Erfan
Yvonne Roman

Note:
- If you have a background in Arabic, it's recommended to undertake an online Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) to asses your level conducted by a certified specialized tester by ACTFL.