Terrific Arabic Class

I ran across this by accident today:

http://www.lqtoronto.com/

and thought that for those of you interested in studying Arabic this is an unbelievably great resource. It has hours and hours of FREE DVD video downloads, books, exercises.....the works. I've started taking the course myself and love it. Just a couple of things to be aware of:

1. The teacher is fantastic - he explains things very slowly which is so important in Arabic. The grammar is really complicated, he makes it seem simple. One thing to note though - it appears that he is not a native speaker. He seems to be teaching a group of Urdu speakers and I believe he probably is as well. It's not a huge deal, he really knows his stuff so it doesn't detract from the course at all.

2. It is part of a course done at a mosque so on occasion there are references to the Qu'ran. No big deal, there is nothing overtly "religious" about the course. He is teaching you standard Arabic - the textbooks are full of all the standard phrases like this is a house, this is a pen etc.