
Location: Sabeel Institute is an Arabic language school in Amman, a northern city in Jordan. The school is located on the edge of Sweileh, a northwestern district of the city. The building rests on a major road in the area, with plenty of shops and restaurants around the area.
Getting around: Depending on the path taken, the city centre is reachable in about an hour by car from the school.
Course selection: Arabic is taught as a general-purpose programme, classes for a special purpose, a cultural and social immersion package and an academic course.
Additional infomration: The school's courses are associated with An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. There are packages to visit Palestine for one or two weeks and study at the University.
Arabic Courses

This program aims at enhancing students’ ability to communicate in social and cultural language, especially the Jordanian and Palestinian dialects.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program aims for communication with academic institutions and universities that specialize in tutoring Arabic language or institutions that send students for a year abroad in the Arab world, so they could communicate with native speakers and acquire the language from their community, and this program make sure that a student obtains all of the linguistic skills and abilities he or she may need.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program focuses on the language and literature of classical Arabic, which is suitable to the ones who aim to do a historical or religious research on Arabs and their culture.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program provides students with the material needed to learn the classical Arabic, modern Arabic, and colloquial Arabic, and works on connecting them together through an organized and sequential approach that enables students to differentiate the different uses of them.
According to the institute’s strategies, each level can be reached by 4 months. A student can become so advanced if he/she studies for one year or half a year in the institute.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program focuses on the modern Arabic used in Media in different aspects: political, economic, cultural, athletic, environmental, artistic, advertisement language and the language used in different social occasions like congratulating and consolation.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program focuses on modern political language in all of its aspects, like the terms, phrases and texts that are used in politics. It aims on making students able to listen to and understand political programs and channels, and to talk and read about politics.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program aims at introducing Islam and its language to the learners.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
This program aims at teaching students the language of economics, the market, companies, and different commercial transactions and developing their skills in this subject.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
Theis program aims at immersing the learners with the Arabian society and the native speakers of Arabic.
Teachers organize debates in the Arabic language in which learners will listen to the debaters or themselves will participate in the debate.
Students will get the chance to live with Arab students or Arab families.
Special note for 2023 holiday season: If you plan to take a course during the high season months of April, June, July or August 2023 we urgently advise you to book as early as possible. In 2022 many schools were fully booked during the holidays, and the situation is unlikely to be different for 2023 due to a current shortage of teachers, which affects most schools.
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Lessons needed per Arabic language level
Level (CEFR) | Level descriptions | LESSONS needed per level | WEEKS needed (20 lessons per week) | ||
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A1 | Beginner | No knowledge, or an understanding of only a very few basic words/phrases. | A1 to A2 | 240 | 12 |
A2 | Elementary | Can understand and speak about simple topics: i.e. family, shopping, hobbies. | A2 to B1 | 480 | 24 |
B1 | Intermediate | Can speak about future and past events, give reasons and explanations for a situation. | B1 to B2 | 540 | 27 |
B2 | Higher Intermediate | Can speak about abstract topics, produce clear detailed text on many subjects. | B2 to C1 | 600 | 30 |
C1 | Advanced | Can use language flexibly and effectively. | C1 to C2 | 660 | 33 |
C2 | Profiency | Can express himself/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely. |
Sabeel Institute

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Accommodation
The institute can also offer a stay with a host family, although this may not be always possible because of the customs. The room will have internet service.
Students stay in a furnished flat that is equipped with all the stuff they may need. This kind of accommodation usually consists of three rooms.
There are private rooms, and two-person shared rooms.
Students can stay in a room or in a single or double suite, or in a suite that consists of two rooms for four students.
This accommodation also offers its residents breakfast.
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