Students in this course will develop their skills in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic, the form of the Arabic language shared by all Arab countries. The course covers ...

In an age where connectivity is widespread and knowledge is readily available, the landscape of language learning has changed considerably. Gone are the days when we had to trawl through dictionaries ...

Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million speakers. Historically, it has played a significant role in religious, literary and academic traditions. However, in an ...

Most Lebanese youth speak a mixture of Arabic, French and English When Randa Makhoul, an art teacher at a school in Beirut, asks her students a question in Arabic, she often gets a reply in English or ...

In an age when, supposedly, language is all the rage, artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are conspicuously narrow: they mostly deal with English to the exclusion of the world's hundreds ...

On 18 December the UN will mark World Arabic Language Day to honour the role the language has played in the development of human civilisation. Spoken by around 400 million people across the globe, the ...

On 18 December each year, the world celebrates the International Day of the Arabic Language. The date commemorates its recognition as one of six working languages of the General Assembly in the United ...

On January 3, 1938, the BBC’s first ever foreign language radio station – BBC Arabic – made its inaugural broadcast. The station was launched in almost direct response to Radio Bari, the Arabic ...