Summer Programs in Arabic for College Students

JHS
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:43:40 +0000

My son did the Chicago intensive program last summer. He liked it, he seemed to be learning a lot, but . . . he didn’t actually make it through what Chicago considers a year of Arabic. When he showed up for Arabic II in September, it was completely over his head. Almost a complete meltdown. Since even under the best of circumstances two years of Arabic barely gets you to the starting line for actually knowing Arabic, and one year is completely useless, I thought the summer program was completely useless.