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Feedback from an International Student

Name: Colonel Simon Tustinv

Level: Beginners I

Aims to go until: Intermediate I

I am due to be the British DefenceAttache, Kuwait, and studied at the Arabic Language Centre Dubai (ALCD) from 14th January - 3rd February 2005.Prior to coming to ALC I had completed 5 months of Arabic classes at the UK's Defence School of Language, Beaconsfield, where I had struggled to keep up with the pace of their Diploma Course.

In my first week at ALC I covered their Beginners course, Books I & II. In the second week I completed their Beginners III book. During my third and final week I covered most of the material in Intermediate Book I.I especially appreciated the ALC course package. Points of grammar and aspects of Arabic are very clearly and simply explained within a well structured, logical, step-by-step programme. The 'Activity Books' supporting each stage reinforces everything covered and each has an excellent revision section of main linguistic points covered in the previous stage.

The whole ALC package, together with Mrs. Tuqan's excellent teaching, meant that I covered all the ground that I needed and was given ample opportunity for speaking practice.

I strongly recommend the ALC Basic and Intermediate courses to anyone interested in learning Arabic, both linguists and those, who like me, find learning languages difficult.

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