Who would have thought it: Now I’m learning Arabic with fun – after I almost dropped out. But then Corona whirled everything upside down and gave me new ideas. For example, to look for an Arabic course one last time. And I found it! Read here what happened. Weiterlesen
Arabic
Learning Arabic

Learning Arabic is not so easy. And now – after many stops and go’s – I finally committed completely to this beautiful language. My new goal is to reach level B1 by mid-2021. How come all off a sudden? Read for yourself what happened to get me motivated again and how I want to manage to reach my ambitious goals.

My tips: Traveling, languages, dancing, sports
Language schools worldwide
FRENCH: Naturellement Français in Fabrezan / Southern France
In the small language school, adults learn French in a friendly, welcoming environment. Whether you are a beginner or advanced student, the experienced teacher Mickaël offers tailor-made courses for every level and need, e.g. General French, 1:1 French, student courses, French for business, exam preparation, online courses.
SPANISH: Spanish Institute in Puebla / Mexico
If you are interested in high quality Spanish classes where students are deeply immersed in Mexican culture, you should spend a few weeks in the historic city of Puebla, near Mexico City. The intensive program includes group or individual classes in the morning and conversation with a guide in the afternoon. Host family, accommodation and meals are also included in the price. Highly recommended!
PORTUGUESE: Básica Língua in Salvador / Brasilien
The Brazilian Sheila Waksman traveled the world for ten years before she set up her own small language school in Salvador. She offers qualified intensive private and small group courses for all levels. Sheila is a very competent, dedicated and patient teacher with a lot of experience in teaching Portuguese as a foreign language. She speaks English very well and offers her courses at a very good value for money.
ARABIC: Noor Majan Training Institute in Ibri / Oman
The homely institute offers high quality Arabic lessons for all levels. Students live in the residence, women also with Omani host families. The intensive courses last four weeks. Transfers, excursions and meals depending on accommodation are also included in the package. The experienced teachers have a very good education and a lot of teaching experience. Co-founder Sultan Al Farsi speaks excellent German.
Arabic language school in Germany
ARABIC: Arabic language school Aladin Augsburg and Munich (in German)
Learning Arabic in a structured way and having fun: This is the goal of the Aladin School. With the Aladin teaching method©, the participants get lots of opportunities to speak what is rather rare in many Arabic courses in Germany. In the Corona crisis all Arabic courses continue online via Zoom. Course participants also benefit from the e-learning platform „Aladin Moodle“ and interactive exercises.
Travel portal in Brazil
Embarque na Viagem (in Portuguese)
The portal in Rio de Janeiro is more than just a travel portal. It is maintained by journalists with a lot of travel experience and offers interesting editorial articles about traveling worldwide, restaurants, entertainment, culture. It shows trends in the travel industry, e.g. in terms of destinations, cultural events, tours, exhibitions and offers travel news, „news to use“ and special offers.
Tour operator in Canada
Canadian Adventure Tours
Helene Steiner, a famous mountain and heliskiing guide, was the first Austrian woman to complete the hard training as a mountain and ski guide. In the last decades, she has been guiding clients from many countries to the mountains of the world. Her company in Whistler offers excellent guest service and heliskiing. Moreover, as a speaker Helene motivates people to push the envelope…
Learning Arabic: It now works
For several years now I have been trying to learn Arabic. I have attended VHS courses, tried Skype lessons, struggled with online courses and took Arabic lessons with a loony private teachers. Not much has come out of it. That’s why I didn’t want to deal with the language on my trip to Morocco. But once again everything turned out differently than I thought…
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Once again: „I’m learning Arabic“, the fourth
After I could hardly deal with Arabic for more than two years due to lack of time, I now want to continue my studies. However, I need to remotivate myself. Because despite all good intentions, it is quite frustrating to start (almost) all over again.
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Learning Arabic with music
Always learning from books can be very monotonous. That’s why I now loosen up my schedule with Arabic music. There is enough choice of great songs. The Lebanese singer Fairuz, for example, is one of my absolute favourites.
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Arabic: Getting started
Now it’s getting serious: But before I get started with Arabic, I have to think about what materials I need. Not all of them at the same time – and none from the library either: With the meagre yield of Arabic books sharing a corner with Chinese, there is no danger of information overflow.
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Ahlan wa sahlan – here we go!
Several times in the last years I have started learning Arabic… Why? Because I like the language and love the challenge. But then one stumbling block followed the next and took me off the course again. In relation to all the learning material I gathered, my ambition has finally caught up with me!
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