Do you need to strengthen your knowledge and improve your academic performance? I offer personalized academic support for elementary and high school students, as well as preparation for the ICFES exams, with a special emphasis on Spanish, reading, reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, composition, creative writing, and literature. Each class is tailored to the level and needs of each student. My goal is for them not only to understand the material, but also to develop confidence, better study habits, and communication skills that will serve them well both in school and in their daily lives. We will work through clear explanations, practical exercises, dynamic activities, and materials tailored to each student to make learning a motivating, engaging, and effective experience. Whether you want to reinforce content, prepare for assessments, strengthen reading comprehension and writing skills, or prepare for the ICFES exams, I would be delighted to guide you through your learning journey.

Arabic becomes much easier when speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary are developed as connected skills rather than taught as isolated rules. I am a native Arabic speaker, PhD-qualified engineer, university professor, researcher, and multidisciplinary tutor with more than 30 years of experience in teaching, training, mentoring, academic work, and personalized learning. This class is designed for children, teenagers, university students, professionals, heritage learners, and adult learners who want to build a clear and confident command of Arabic. Lessons can be taught in Arabic, English, or French, allowing explanations to be adapted to the learner’s linguistic background and level. Depending on your objectives, we can focus on one specific pathway or combine several skills into a structured learning program. BEGINNER ARABIC & STRONG FOUNDATIONS • Recognizing and writing Arabic letters • Understanding isolated, initial, medial, and final letter forms • Joining letters correctly • Short and long vowels • Fatḥa, ḍamma, kasra, sukūn, shadda, and tanwīn • Reading syllables and simple words • Pronunciation and articulation • Essential vocabulary • Building simple sentences • Introducing yourself and communicating basic needs • Developing confidence from the first stages of learning SPEAKING, LISTENING & COMMUNICATION • Everyday conversation • Building practical vocabulary • Asking and answering questions • Describing people, places, events, and experiences • Developing sentence fluency • Listening comprehension • Pronunciation and intelligibility • Guided dialogues and role-play • Expressing opinions and ideas • Moving from short answers to connected speech • Formal and informal communication according to need • Modern Standard Arabic communication • Levantine conversational Arabic when requested • Building confidence for real-life interaction READING & COMPREHENSION • Accurate decoding of Arabic words • Reading fully vocalized texts • Progressing toward partially vocalized and unvocalized texts • Reading fluency • Punctuation and phrasing • Vocabulary from context • Understanding sentences and paragraphs • Identifying main ideas and supporting details • Narrative, descriptive, informational, and academic texts • Reading strategies for unfamiliar passages • Summarizing and discussing texts • Progressive work with increasingly complex materials WRITING & WRITTEN EXPRESSION • Correct letter formation and word construction • Spelling and dictation • Building accurate sentences • Connecting ideas coherently • Writing descriptions and short paragraphs • Personal and narrative writing • Writing short stories • Explanatory and argumentative writing • Summaries and structured responses • Academic paragraphs • Formal written communication • Editing for clarity, grammar, and coherence • Developing an increasingly natural written style GRAMMAR, MORPHOLOGY & LANGUAGE STRUCTURE • Parts of speech • Nominal and verbal sentences • Gender and number • Singular, dual, and plural forms • Definite and indefinite nouns • Adjectives and agreement • Personal, attached, and demonstrative pronouns • Prepositions • Past, present, and imperative verbs • Verb conjugation • Basic verb patterns • Negation • Interrogative structures • Relative pronouns • كان وأخواتها • إنّ وأخواتها • Subject and object relationships • Introduction to grammatical case endings • Iʿrāb and syntactic analysis according to level • Morphological patterns and word formation • Advanced sentence analysis when required ACADEMIC, PROFESSIONAL & ADVANCED ARABIC • Academic vocabulary • Formal written Arabic • Reading complex texts • Summarizing and synthesizing information • Structured argumentation • Research-related communication • Professional correspondence • Presentations and formal speaking • Text analysis • Improving precision and style • Advanced grammar and syntax • Editing Arabic writing • Developing clarity, coherence, and linguistic accuracy ARABIC FOR HERITAGE LEARNERS • Strengthening reading when speaking ability is already stronger • Connecting spoken Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic • Correcting gaps in grammar and spelling • Building confidence in writing • Expanding vocabulary beyond everyday family communication • Developing formal and academic Arabic • Personalized progression for learners raised outside the Arab world My teaching approach follows a clear progression: understand → hear → pronounce → read → use → write → analyze → communicate independently I do not teach Arabic as a disconnected collection of vocabulary lists and grammar rules. I connect language structure to meaningful texts, conversation, writing, and real communication. Depending on the learner’s age and level, lessons may include guided dialogues, fully vocalized texts, visual explanations, reading passages, grammar analysis, structured exercises, dictation, storytelling, writing tasks, and personalized practice. We can work with your school curriculum, university course, textbook, reading difficulties, grammar questions, writing samples, professional objectives, heritage-language needs, or personal learning goals. Whether you are learning your first Arabic letters, improving conversation, strengthening reading, mastering grammar, developing academic writing, or reconnecting with Arabic as a heritage language, I will adapt the sessions to your level, objectives, pace, and preferred learning style. My goal is to help you understand Arabic as a living, structured, and expressive language—and to use it with increasing accuracy, confidence, and independence.