Phone:
888.272.7881 (toll-free in US)
802.258.3212
TTY:
802.258.3388
Fax:
802.258.3296
Mailing Address:
PO Box 676, 1 Kipling Road
Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA
Morocco: Intensive Arabic Language and Moroccan Culture
Program Overview
This program offers intensive Modern Standard Arabic (Fus’ha) and an introduction to Moroccan culture and Moroccan Arabic (Darija) through cultural and linguistic immersion. SIT is uniquely situated to offer this fusion of Fus’ha and Darija, as it has offered a similar course in the semester-long program since 1988 and in the summer program since 2004. In this program, even beginning students are able to understand a few lectures in Arabic by the end of the summer.
Language classes are run in conjunction with the Center for Cross-Cultural Learning in Rabat. Located in a nineteenth-century Andalusian home in the old Medina of Rabat, the Center hosts educational programs and organizes other cultural events, such as artistic shows and performances, for local communities.
