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.
Advanced Reading and Writing in Persian
If you are a heritage Farsi speaker who can speak and understand the spoken language, then take this course to learn to read and write in Persian.
Arabic: Modern Standard I
This course, taught within a cultural context, provides an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic.
Arabic: Modern Standard II
Gain greater proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic, including improved conversation and grammar.
Persian II
Gain an introduction to Persian grammatical structures and improve your conversational skills.
Culture and Language Bootcamp for Work and Study Abroad: Arabic
Immerse yourself in Arabic and learn the skills to succeed in Arabic-speaking academic or work settings in just three weeks.
Arabic: Modern Standard III
Expand your vocabulary and range of grammatical expression and learn to converse about simple, everyday topics in Arabic.
Arabic: Modern Standard Intensive I
Through audio and visual instruction within a modern cultural context, learn to speak, understand, read, and write Modern Standard Arabic.
Arabic: Modern Standard Intensive II
Study present and future tenses, and learn to comprehend and respond to spoken and written Arabic with increased proficiency and cultural awareness.
Introduction to Spoken Levantine Arabic
Gain an introduction to the Arabic colloquial dialect of the Levantine area, as well as to the culture and values of its speakers.
Modern Standard Arabic Intermediate Immersive Conversation and Culture
Develop your intermediate-level fluency in Modern Standard Arabic by exercising your conversational skills in this immersive, fast-paced course.
Persian Advanced Conversation
Learn to express yourself in Persian with more ease, improve your pronunciation, build your vocabulary, and develop more fluid conversational skills.
Persian III
Continue to master Persian pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary in a cultural context.
Persian Intermediate Conversation
Improve your speaking, listening, and reading skills in Persian through the use of intermediate language exercises, role-playing, audio, and video.