Middle Eastern Languages
- Beginning to Advanced Levels
- Grounded in Cultural Contexts
- Provides an Immersive Learning Experience
With the ever-increasing importance of the Middle East in business and international affairs, Arabic and Persian are valuable languages to master. These courses allow you to establish, enhance, or perfect your reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Expand your understanding of dialect, grammar, intonations, and word usage while improving idiomatic and grammatical conversational abilities.
Conversational Arabic
If you have had some prior exposure to the Arabic language, then this high-beginner-level course will help you to build upon that knowledge.
Arabic: Modern Standard I
This course, taught within a cultural context, provides an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic.
Persian Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers: Beginner
If you can understand and speak Farsi but do not have the reading or writing skills, then take this course to round out your overall Farsi...
Advanced Reading and Writing in Persian
Improve your reading comprehension and advance your writing ability, while maintaining your speaking and listening skills in Persian.
Arabic: Modern Standard II
Gain greater proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic, including improved conversation and grammar.
Arabic: Modern Standard III
Expand your vocabulary and range of grammatical expression and learn to converse about simple, everyday topics in Arabic.
Persian II
Gain an introduction to Persian grammatical structures and improve your conversational skills.
Persian III
Continue to master Persian pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary in a cultural context.