Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

Call for Standard Arabic in schools Participants in the First Forum of Arabic Language Protection yesterday stressed the importance of adopting Standard Arabic as the sole means of instruction and ...

All language-learners face the difficulties of regional variations or dialects. Usually, it takes the form of an odd word or turn of phrase or a peculiar pronunciation. For most languages, ...

Only one of the district’s 22 elementary schools—Becker—offers Arabic. Pupils receive at least two 40-minute periods of Arabic a week. The school gave up a two-way immersion program, in which students ...

Doha: Zeinab Ibrahim, sociolinguist and professor of Arabic studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, believes that an emphasis on Modern Standard ...

Arabic is one of those languages that’s considered extremely difficult for English speakers to acquire, right up there with Chinese and Pashto. Any book that promises mastery in months is lying; more ...

From setting their phone's language as Arabic, to making connections between their culture and the Arab world's history, these learners from different parts of the world are embracing Arab heritage ...