Misbah Intercultural Center

Misbah's mission is to help our students integrate into the Jordanian community through language learning and intercultural exchange as part of a close-knit, supportive team of instructors and friends.

The center was established in 2016 by a group of friends with a long history of Arabic instruction and a common passion for sharing their language and culture with the world.

We apply the GPA method, which immediately immerses students and allows them to rapidly develop functional conversation skills and a vocabulary of hundreds of words as they interact with real-world objects. Later phases shift towards more abstract elements and complex communication through pictures, drawings and stories.

Phase 1: The Here and Now (70 hours)

Relearn the physical world around you as though through the eyes of a child. Your instructor will help you collect the most necessary vocabulary through an interactive approach of seeing and doing, using toys, actions and pictures. You will learn to understand around 1200 words and several grammar structures. Students slowly learn to speak in the sessions and develop an understanding of complex speech in the present tense, alongside various standard expressions.

Phase 2: Story building (150 hours)

Further enhance your ability to talk and understand, learning to construct simple stories using pictures. The focus continues to be on the here and now, and another 1200 words are added to your vocabulary.

Phase 3: Shared stories (250 hours)

Begin to experience the world through an interactive introduction to local situations. We start to listen to classic stories like Little Red Riding Hood, as well as local stories like Juha. Students and their instructors also engage in ‘shared experiences,’ where students are introduced to daily life in Jordan through outside excursions, such as a trip to the supermarket. Students are also shown wordless cartoons and discuss them with their instructors.

Phase 4: Deep life sharing (500 hours)

Encounter deep events in the lives of your instructors. Students develop their conversational ability alongside an enhanced capacity to narrate with higher levels of articulation. Students and instructors engage in life interviews and conversations discussing local social situations, sharing views and experiences and forming a deeper level of friendship.

Phase 5: Native-to-native discourse (500 hours)

Develop your ability to understand local speech, listening to native-to-native conversation and learning about such content with your instructor. You will learn to converse in Arabic on a local level, listening to radio and Arabic dialogue to help you sound more like a native speaker.

We have a flexible pricing system:

	Individual	Pair	Group
4-8 hours per week	9.5 JD	7.5 JD	6 JD
10-12 hours per week	9 JD	7 JD	6 JD
15 hours per week	8 JD	6.5 JD	5.5 JD
20 hours per week	7 JD	6 JD	5 JD

We offer Skype lessons to students of all levels. Our teachers use all the same methods and visual aids that they use in the classroom, but students are also welcome bring their own study material and curriculum. Our Skype program is ideal for students living outside of Jordan or who would like to begin their journey in spoken Arabic before coming to the region or to compliment their tertiary study of Modern Standard Arabic.

Due to the current national curfew, all Misbah lessons are temporarily delivered via Skype.

To arrange Skype lessons, please contact us. Payment can then be made via PayPal using the following button:

We offer a 90-minute tourism crash courts consisting of the most common Arabic expressions and practical words to help you engage with the community as you travel Jordan.

Only 10 JD per person.