- Arabic is the 5th most commonly spoken language in the world and an official language of the United Nations, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the African Union.
- Arabic is the language of Islam, understood by Muslims throughout the world.
- There is a high demand for Arabic-speakers in the Western world; it opens job opportunities in a lot of fields: journalism, business and industry, education, finance and banking, translation and interpretation, consulting, foreign service and intelligence, and many others.
- Knowing Arabic can promote intercultural understanding: Westerners are presented with one-dimensional negative stereotypes about Arabic-speaking people through the news media, films etc. People who know Arabic can negotiate the cultural and linguistic gap between nations and assist in solving and avoiding intercultural conflict.
- Arabic influence is evident in many other languages.
work: People interested in this project can choose between learning Darija, the Moroccan dialect, and Fusha, classic Arabic. Morocco is a safe and politically stable North African Muslim country, which makes it the ideal place to learn more about Arabic and Islamic influences. One of the best ways to develop greater knowledge of Islamic culture is to learn Arabic. In our program, we offer the participants 10 hours of tuition per week and volunteering hours in one of our projects in the morning.
Accommodation: The volunteers will live in hosts families where they will be given 3 meals per day.
AIMS OF THE PROJECT: The aim of this project is to give the opportunity to people interested in learning Arabic and to come and discover the beautiful country of Morocco. By living with a Moroccan host family, the participants will be completely emerged in the local culture and will be able to take part in and adopt a Moroccan way of life. The idea is also to manage time in the morning to do some volunteer work to contribute to the development of the local society in addition to the Arabic lessons that will take place in the afternoon.
Volunteering work:
Depend of our free places we will inform the volunteers 2 weeks after we get the flight ticket. There’s 3 proposition:
- Hand in hand project.
- Disability children.
- Integration of immigrants.
Working time: From 09H00 To 12h00.
Time of the arabic classes: From 14H00 To 15h30.
Camp spoken language: Darija / French
Language: Darija (Moroccan arabic) is the native language.
5 GOOD REASONS TO LEARN ARABIC:
- Arabic is the 5th most commonly spoken language in the world and an official language of the United Nations, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the African Union.
- Arabic is the language of Islam, understood by Muslims throughout the world.
- There is a high demand for Arabic-speakers in the Western world; it opens job opportunities in a lot of fields: journalism, business and industry, education, finance and banking, translation and interpretation, consulting, foreign service and intelligence, and many others.
- Knowing Arabic can promote intercultural understanding: Westerners are presented with one-dimensional negative stereotypes about Arabic-speaking people through the news media, films etc. People who know Arabic can negotiate the cultural and linguistic gap between nations and assist in solving and avoiding intercultural conflict.
- Arabic influence is evident in many other languages.
Transport hub:
- If you choose to arrive directly in Rabat Airport, we can arrange someone to pick you up for 150 dirhams, otherwise the meeting point will be Rabat Ville Train Station.
- To get to the Rabat Ville Train Station from the airport you can take the bus right outside the airport for 20 dirhams and it will leave you in front of the train station. With a taxi, it should cost you about 100 dirhams (price negotiable).
- If you arrive in any other airport of the country, you will be able to reach Rabat by train, check the timetable and connections on www.oncf.ma
Once you have your flights details please pass them by e-mail to your interlocutor so you can arrange with him/her the meeting point.
The info sheet will be send to you by e-mail 3 weeks prior departure.
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