The AP has been designed and conceptualized to provide substantial linguistic, cultural and historical skills to our student through 3 trimesters spent with the Levantine Institute. Totalizing 720 hours of classes and 34 hours of private tutoring, the AP accepts students of all levels, with complete beginners starting at the beginning of the year in September and more advanced students joining in October and December.
The aim is to help students achieve high-proficiency in Levantine Dialect and in Modern Standard Arabic (reaching B2 level at the end of the year) through a complete immersion program in the heart of the Levant, the historical city of Tripoli. While Trimester 1 will be focusing on giving the students the basic Arabic skills to interact with their direct environment, Trimester 2 and 3 will take students through a journey across Levantine language, history, politics and culture in order to provide a holistic understanding of the major socio-political developments of the Levant. At the end of the year students who attended the Annual Program will reach a working proficiency in Arabic and will be equipped with all the necessary tools to understand the Levant today, one the most complex region in the World. This program has been specifically designed for all individuals who would like to work in our region, understand its language, culture, media and modern history.
Combining MSA and Levantine dialect classes during the 3 Trimesters, students will also have different modules in Modern History of the Levant, Art and culture of the Levant but also Media and Journalism.
Take a cab to the Charles Helou bus station in Beirut. A Connex bus departs to Tripoli every 30mn, wifi is available onboard. Once arrived at the final destination of the bus, Sahet el Nour, you can take a Taxi from Sahet el Nour to Al Mina street, it's a 10 minutes in the car.
I had two teachers. The one I had in group lesson was great, she has put lot of efforts to teach outside of the box. I have progressed and improved a lot thanks to her dedication. The second teacher wasn’t very professional and didn’t have a lot of experience teaching foreign students since she has been teaching kids until then. Curriculum very disappointing, with little consistency.
The administration is overall not organised. No one was here for the check in at the house, I had to wait one hour for them to send one of their maintenance staff. There was no wifi in the house and no indication or welcome tips for you to get around. The house was more like an annex of the office institute. The administration staff will often show up without any notice. They also gave the key to one of the student for her to have her class in our house with again no notification. The house had active cameras, I have asked several times to remove them, it’s only been covered one week before the end.
No activities took place, you must pay more if you want to participate. I wouldn’t recommend to book the taxi through the institute as they charge double the price.
We were 4 students in our class, the teacher was prepared to teaching to strangers students the . The School had teaching from everywhere . Very interesting the activities
My teacher was great . Her name was Maya and was the best Arabic teacher. The staff was amazing. However , the time outside the school was even better. I made so many new friends. Went to a wedding and grieved with a family due to a death
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