Fadi

Professor Fadi has a unique pedagogic methodology by which one can become an adept speaker of Arabic at an accelerated pace. He encourages you to go out of your comfort zone and communicate in Arabic during lessons, so that you begin to “live” in the language. I have seen a rapid change in my ability and confidence to communicate in Arabic since I began lessons with Professor Fadi. Furthermore, Professor Fadi is a very patient and helpful teacher, so the student never feels worried about making a mistake, and his approach therefore is very effective at building confidence with the language, which is of paramount importance. I would highly recommend Professor Fadi, who goes out of his way to help students as much as possible. He is one of a kind!

I'm scared to keep writing good things about Fadi because I don't want anyone else taking my times! He's definitely the best!

Today we worked on my listening and speaking skills before we progressed in our Syrian colloquial book. It's always fun to look back on my progress and see how far I've come. I wouldn't be able to understand Arabic nearly as well without Fadi's encouragement and knowledge.

Wowww, I´ve never met a teacher here on italki that is experienced, prepared, and ready to teach. As intimidating as Arabic is, he makes it easy. We went over verb conjugations in this lesson. Even though I was nervous, he was great at making me feel at ease and guiding me through the lesson. Shoukran yaa Fadi. Bedros ktiir il yom ma3ak. :D

Fadi calls his lessons "fun but serious" and I agree with this description. We have a good time and plenty of laughs in our lessons, but we are focused on the goal of learning. The method of learning was proven today when I knew all but 3 words of an article we read. Of course we have to be challenged in order to improve, and the second article had several new words. It as a good balance, and it was clear Fadi had given careful thought to the articles we used.

MSA lessons are always exciting, because the highlight my improvement in applying the rules of Arabic grammar. Fadi has done a great job of explaining the language rules to me, and I am now able to see the patterns of letters and related new words to older, more familiar ones.