Hanan

I highly recommend for all levels and experience. Hanan is an excellent teacher who has a very helpful way of providing feedback after each lesson. She generates a list of new words/phrases and a voice recording so you can learn the vocab on your own, which is my favorite thing. During the lesson, she is clearly very experienced teaching foreigners, and her methods make you feel that you're getting a lot of value from a professional teacher, not just a native speaker. I have had ten different teachers over my time learning Arabic, so I know what a good teacher is, and Hanan is definitely at the top.

I've been meeting with Hanan for almost six months now, and I've definitely seen an improvement in my spoken Levantine Arabic. She's organized and thoughtful in the way that she gets me to open up about my day-to-day in order to bring new vocabulary into the fold. At the end of each lesson, she's great about making time to write down the new words we've reviewed during our time together, and she also says them in a sentence and gives me the pronunciation. I also enjoy when I don't understand something about grammar, she takes the time to give examples of how particular grammatical constructions works and empowers me to provide examples of my own. Hanan is a wonderful teacher 100 recommend her to anyone looking to improve their spoken Arabic!

Hanan has a whole curriculum figured out from the beginning and is straight-to-the-point, which gives the student plenty of time to learn new stuff and practice it immediately! She checks in with the student frequently to see if everything is going well, which I appreciate. At the end of the lesson, Hanan did something I have never seen another teacher do: she did a recap of the entire lesson on the spot while recording herself and then sent me all of the PDFs we used in the lesson plus the recording for future reference. I love that, because I got a real-time summary and also materials to save me in the future! Thank you for the wonderful lesson, Hanan!

Love Hanan's lessons and personality. No matter what we do during the lesson (sometimes we talk, other times we read, and sometimes we have other activities) it is always fun and interesting. At the end of each lesson, I get a list of new words that I've learned in the lesson with a recording so I'll also be able to hear the pronunciation and I'll be able to practice what I've learned during the lesson on my own. She is definitely an excellent teacher and a wonderful person.

If you are looking for Arabic lessons, look no further! I took lessons with 5 different tutors before finding Hanan, and always had issues where I would explain I was a beginner or that I needed actual instruction, and they would talk to me solely in Arabic, much too quickly and failed to actually TEACH anything. Hanan has established lessons with handouts, she will explain things very well, and when I don't understand something, she will go back to it and explain it in another way so that I get it. She is great about correcting pronunciation, she incorporates grammar into the lessons in bite-sized chunks so it isn't overwhelming, and she asks questions in Arabic that require you to form responses-connecting what you were taught with past words or verbs so that your brain is practicing how to use those words as you would in a conversation. Don't bother looking for any other teachers-Hanan is the one you need!!!!

Hanan is the best! Always encouraging, kind, and patient. She has taken me from zero Arabic to having basic conversations with confidence and playfulness in just a few months. Shukran Hanan <3 Bshoofik!