Choose from our diverse Arabic Language offerings at AUC
Follow Your Passion....Choose Your Path
Who Should Apply?
- Undergraduate and graduate students fulfilling their University Arabic-language requirements
- Study-abroad and exchange students fulfilling their semester-abroad or year-abroad requirements
- International students seeking intensive Arabic language training in an immersive environment over the summer
- Diplomats in need of a program to prepare them for their foreign service exams
- Professionals and non-degree learners who need to gain a good command of contemporary Arabic language and culture as quickly and effectively as possible
- Advanced U.S. learners seeking to bring their Arabic skills to near-native fluency
- Advanced learners from all nationalities seeking high-level training in Arabic language and culture
Advantages
- Highly qualified, dedicated and caring instructors
- Communicative skills-based and Content-based instruction
- Modern Standard, Media and Egyptian Arabic curricula
- Small class sizes
- International student body
- State-of-the-art campus
- Rich cultural program
- Immersion language learning experience
- Free and subsidized trips around Egypt
- Lifelong friends and mentors, memories and knowledge
- Scholarship opportunities
This is for non-academic course seekers who:
- Wish to develop their Arabic language communication skills in various social and professional contexts
- Want to learn Modern Standard Arabic or the formal language of Arabic, used on TV and in newspapers, magazines, official documents, etc.
- Are in need of pre-semester survival courses in the spoken Arabic of Cairo
- Have little or no prior knowledge of Arabic and need basic language skills for traveling in and around Egypt and most Arabic-speaking countries
- Wish to learn Arabic online at their own pace
- Are non-Arabs living in Egypt or abroad and wish to learn Arabic
- Are Arabs living abroad and need to develop their Arabic language skills
Advantages
- Courses are available to Arabs who wish to learn Arabic, Non-Arabs living in Egypt, and Arabs living abroad.
- Courses are suitable for all ages.
- Enroll in one of SCE's Arabic courses and improve your Arabic faster
- The best location to learn Arabic in the heart of Cairo for face to face classes
- Different class sizes whether for small groups or one to one tutorial classes
- Different delivery modes, face to face, live online or self-paced
- Different Arabic tracks for diverse learning needs
- Professionally qualified instructors and native speakers
- Courses are available in different modes: face to face, live or self-paced online.
- Accommodation for diverse learning needs is available.
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I immersed myself, absorbing Arabic and the Egyptian culture. Not only was I able to meet some of my best friends and become proficient in Arabic but my own core beliefs in life’s purpose dramatically transformed.
Colette Ghunim (YAB ’13) Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout
Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout
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