A twenty five years old Egyptian revolutionizes the way people learn Arabic language online in Tanta, Egypt.
A twenty five years old Egyptian revolutionizes the way people learn Arabic language online in Tanta, Egypt.
After spending five years teaching Arabic online over Skype and other platforms, company founder, Ibrahim Adel discovered that a lot of Arabic students suffer from the lack of Arabic resources available on the web.
Students would basically spend hours searching the web for answers to questions in their minds. Some spend days looking for worksheets with traceable fonts or flashcards with audio but they get nothing but disappointment.
The huge demand for a complete online Arabic course with useful tools was far greater than the number of the websites which were willing to make the commitment and offer what is needed.
Mr. Adel felt there had to be a better and cheaper way of teaching Arabic language online.
He came up with the solution after doing multiple surveys and asking a lot of Arabic students what Arabic tools and assets they wish they can find. Mr. Adel learned that Arabic students look for three things in general. They wish they can watch the Arabic lessons in a video format not listen to them in a CD.
They want to be able to easily find a traceable Arabic worksheets to practice their Arabic handwriting.
A lot of students complain that they easily forget how to read Arabic words so, they wish they can find Arabic flashcards with audio.
When asked about the new service, Adel said, “When you create all the useful Arabic tools and put them in one place, not only you save students’ time, but also you give them a great motivation to challenge themselves to do their best. After all, what we are after here is helping more people around the world to speak the beautiful language of Arabic.”
The format is very simple. When students register with iTalkArabic.com, they get access to a complete video library. The curriculum is divided into units, chapters then lessons.
Students can start the course by taking a lesson by lesson or can directly jump to the lesson of their choice.
Each video lesson has it is own page. After watching a lesson, the user can download the worksheet of that specific lesson or practice these words with iTalkArabic flashcards section.
Mr. Adel also added two new tools that he believes would be a great help to all Arabic leaners. Students can take a post-lesson quiz to make sure they are ready to move on to the following lesson. Also iTalkArabic offers a progress evaluation; upon the completion of each unit, students take a test and get a custom report from the teacher showing them their strength and weakness points.
Whatever level of Arabic the student is at, iTalkArabic.com gives them a better appreciation of Arabic through fun environment.
When owner, Ibrahim Adel, was asked if this venture will succeed, he responded, “There is currently a large unfulfilled market for this service. I just feel that most of students are under the illusion that Arabic language is hard to learn, but I tell them to try our service for one day and they will find out how easy and fun it can be.”
The great thing about this new service is that students can watch any lesson as many times as they want and if they have a question, they can post it in a comment under the lesson and the teacher will make a video answer for their question.”
iTalkArabic.com is trying to help all people around the world to learn and speak the beautiful language of Arabic.