By: Olwenn
If you want to progress quickly in Levantine Arabic, Study in Palestine and its amazing teachers are the place to go! Doha and Saja were both incredibly kind, welcoming, and very skilled teachers. Most of my classes were one-on-one, which meant that everything was tailor-made to my level and the specific things I needed to work on. Classes taught me things that were very helpful to everyday life in Hebron, and the homework also helped solidify the things I learned in class. Being immersed in an Arabic-speaking city and host family was also so valuable in helping me to improve much faster than if I were studying in my home country.
If you did this all over again, what’s one thing you would change?
I wish I could stay longer!
Pros
- Hospitality of the Palestinian people
- First-hand experience of the political experience of Palestine
- Variety of activities offered by the center
Cons
- Can be emotionally intense to witness the oppression of Palestinians first-hand
- Israeli immigration
