General information

• 3 hours per week (20 sessions): 2 days a week (Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursdays). 
• 2,5 hours per week (12 sessions): 1 day a week (Friday or Saturdays)

ARABIC COURSE TYPES AND LEVELS

• Modern Standard Arabic • AME: nine year-long levels (AME I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX) each consisting of quarterly sub-levels A, B and C.
• Conversation Courses • CONAME and CONDAR. 
• Consolidation Courses • These include four sub-levels (I R, II R, III R and IV R). Prerequisite: having completed sub-level C of the corresponding course level.
• International Arabic Course (diplomacy and the press) • AIP. This course is designed for students who already have a solid foundation in Arabic and wish to develop specific communication skills for international affairs, diplomacy, international relations, multilateral organisations and the media.
• Bridge Course • AME PUENTE. A transition course for children moving from the preschool and primary school Arabic courses to the regular Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) programme. It is intended for children with an intermediate level of Arabic. The teaching methodology and fees are the same as those of the regular MSA courses.

ARABIC DIALECT COURSES

• Moroccan Arabic (Darija) • DAR: two year-long levels (DAR I, II and III) each consisting of quarterly sub-levels A, B and C.
• Levantine Arabic • LEV: two year-long levels (LEV I, II and III) each consisting of quarterly sub-levels A, B and C. Variety spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan.
• Egyptian Arabic • EGP: two year-long levels (EGP I and II) each consisting of quarterly sub-levels A, B and C.

CLARIFICATIONS ON COURSE LEVELS

If you wish to register for the Language Center courses and you have studied Arabic at some prior time (in any sort of educational content, regardless of whether it was official), you must take our placement test.

If you have studied Arabic, but you only know the Arabic alphabet (letters and sounds) and a few basic notions (greetings, introductions, etc.), you should directly sign up for level AME I B.

If you have studied at the Language Center before and less than one year has gone by, you need not take the placement test (you can register for the level subsequent to the last level you successfully completed). If more than one year has elapsed, you must take the placement test.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

In order to create a group, a minimum number of eight students must register, and a course will only begin if the required number of students sign up.

Once the Language Center has confirmed that the group will be created, there will be no refund of any registration fees.

If the group which you initially requested is not formed, then you may select one of other groups that has been created or ask to have the full registration fee refunded.