Vaahaka Language Institute English, Dhivehi and Arabic in twelve week courses, in Hulhumalé

Arabic conversation, evenings

Ten weeks of speaking, for people who can already read the script.

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What it costs

⃂ 1,250.00 Per person

Nothing is paid on this website. You reserve a place on an intake and the office confirms it, usually within a day, with the level the placement test put you in written on the confirmation.

The course fee is paid by bank transfer to the account in that email, or in cash at the office outside the closed hours between noon and four. A receipt with your enrolment reference on it comes back once the money has arrived, and a place is held for five days from the confirmation.

A course may be paid in two halves, the second before week six. Employers paying for staff should ask the office for an invoice addressed to the company before the intake starts rather than after, because a receipt made out to a student is not something a finance department will accept later.

The placement test is free and there is nothing to pay for it whether or not you go on to enrol.

Three hours a week for ten weeks, in the evening, sixteen to a class, and it is a speaking course. You need to be able to read the script before you start, and the placement test will tell you honestly whether you can.

The course is built around talking: introductions, families, work, directions, shopping, travelling, being unwell, and the long stretch in the middle on asking questions, which is where most people who have read for years discover they cannot hold up their end of a conversation.

Grammar appears when a sentence needs it and not on a schedule. There is homework and it is spoken rather than written: a recording sent to the teacher, corrected, and sent back. Students who do it finish the course able to speak; students who do not finish it able to understand, which is a good outcome and not the one they paid for.

This is a language course. It is not a course in religious studies, it does not teach recitation, and it will not answer questions of religious practice. Several students each intake are here to understand what they read, and this course helps with the language, which is the only thing it claims.

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