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Transferring Language Transfer To Egypt
Transferring Language Transfer To Egypt
Before making Cairo his new temporary home, Eleftheriou was in Eleftheriou is currently the only teacher at Language Transfer, yet he
Cyprus working on creating his Greek course. He is currently design- is working on expanding his team of teachers with the little resources
ing two new courses; one for teaching English to Arabic speakers and he has. He is collaborating with people from Cyprus on a project that
a second one that teaches non-Arabic speakers Egyptian Arabic. "My will enable other language experts to use Eleftheriou's method to teach
courses are all very specific to the language you are learning. All courses Greek and the different Turkish dialects spoken in Cyprus. According
are designed for English and Spanish speakers. In other words, Spanish to him, he hopes that this initiative will spearhead the founding of an
speakers do not have to learn English to be able to learn Arabic," says effective e-training environment, which will enable any language expert
Eleftheriou. "Egyptian Arabic is very important, I believe that it is more or linguist to learn how to teach any language via his method, instead of
important than classical Arabic. I’m teaching languages in the culture having to learn a new language every time he wants to devise a course
and social sense, so if you want to go anywhere in the Arab world and be for it.
understood, you speak Egyptian Arabic because of their following to the
Egyptian music and movies," explains Eleftheriou. "If money is no longer an obstacle, I hope that in five years, Language
Transfer will become a household name. The first alternative one thinks
Eleftheriou also believes that learning Arabic is becoming increasingly of when they decide to learn a new language, regardless of what it is;
important as a result of the east-west dualism recently created. And that Arabic, Persian, Portuguese or even Swahili. I also hope that this project
nowadays, more and more people from the west are becoming curious can become self-sustainable with enough funding, and a big team of
about the language and this part of the world. "I also find the Arabic international professional teachers, so that I can take a break and venture
language beautiful and have always wanted to learn it," says Eleftheriou. into something new," he says with a big smile on his face. p
The process of designing these two Arabic courses is expected to be For more information on the courses or how to help this ambitious project, go to:
ready sometime in 2013. http://www.languagetransfer.org or email: info@languagetransfer.org
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