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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million speakers.

More than half of children in countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) experience “learning poverty” – they cannot read and understand an age-appropriate text by age 10. This is preventing ...

In Somaya Sallam’s kindergarten classroom at Bellevue’s Ardmore Elementary, 40 minutes of every day are dedicated to learning Arabic language, music and culture. About 75 students, which includes ...

Last March, Gordon Gray Jr. ’65 bestowed a $1.5 million endowment to encourage the study of Arabic language at Harvard, especially among undergraduates, after Sept. 11. Gray, an alumnus of the Near ...

Arab American Heritage Month acknowledges the culture, history and contributions of Arab-Americans to the United States. IU offers year-round programming to learn Arabic and understand the culture.

"Language learning begins in utero, study finds; Newborn memories of oohs and ahs heard in the womb." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 01 / 130102083615.htm (accessed November 2, ...

The Third Sharjah International Conference on Arabic Language Studies in Europe (SICALE), titled "Contributions of Orientalists to the Arabic Language," was launched Saturday at the Dr. Sultan Al ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Learning another language can be difficult. In the military, Soldiers are often required to familiarize themselves with a foreign language indicative to the region they will deploy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study elicited students' perceptions and preferences concerning grammar instruction in learning Arabic as a foreign language. A sample of ...

AMONG THEIR many reverberations, the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 had a linguistic side-effect. Between 2002 and 2009 the number of university students in America learning Arabic shot up ...