Reading
First course: letters, vowel marks, and reading aloud. 8 weeks.
- Next start
- 7 September
- Duration
- 120-minute class
2 700 EGP
/ per course
Classical Arabic · Cairo
From the first letter to a book
Eight courses in a row, each starting where the previous one ended. Classes are in person, in groups of up to twelve, morning, afternoon and evening.
8
courses in a row, from letters to unvocalised text
12
students per group — we take no more
120
minutes per class, twice a week
461
pages of the Seerah, open in full
Programme
All courses
Eight steps
The steps follow one another: on the first you learn to read aloud, on the eighth you work through text without vowel marks. You may skip ahead — that is what the interview is for.
Muqaddimah
Second course: nouns, verbs, particles, gender, number, first 300 words.
- Next start
- 8 September
- Duration
- 120-minute class
3 000 EGP
/ per course
Tamhidi
Third course: idaafa construct, pronouns, both tenses. 600 words.
- Next start
- 15 September
- Duration
- 120-minute class
3 300 EGP
/ per course
Level 1
Verb forms I–IV, verbal nouns (masdars), and participles. Morphological vocabulary expansion.
- Next start
- 14 September
- Duration
- 120-minute class
3 600 EGP
/ per course
How to join
Four steps to your first class
For the Reading course you simply enrol. For the others there is a short interview: it exists so that nobody ends up in a group where there is nothing left to learn.
01
Choose a course
If you do not know a single letter, start with Reading and go in order. If you have studied something, go to step two.
02
The interview
Twenty minutes: you read aloud and answer a few questions. It is free and commits you to nothing.
03
Choose an intake
Morning, afternoon or evening. Seats are counted, and we say how many are left.
04
Your first class
Come. Textbooks and copybooks are handed out on the spot; there is nothing to buy.
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