Name: Julie -Country: France 

I choose to study MSA to improve my classical Arabic before studying any other dialect. I wanted first to discover this language to better understand Middle East countries' society.
I chose Cairo because it was an authentic city I didn’t know before with a rich cultural life.
I booked a private class so I quickly gained fluency, and I learnt a lot of new and useful words from different and interesting topics.
Nashwa, my teacher, was incredible. It is a hard task to train someone on a daily basis, with many hours. She is very professional and enthusiastic and she manages to diversify the course with various contents, always interesting. Time was flying during the class!
The course material was good and the book “Media Arabic” was useful but I would have been glad if it was directly provided by the institute.
I loved the Dokki neighborhood, the communication with people was not always easy as I didn’t know the Egyptian dialect but people were always really kind and helpful to me and I always succeeded in getting what I wanted.
I spent a lot of time visiting Cairo alone and I didn’t get in any trouble or get annoyed. Cairo is a great dynamic country and I’ll be glad to come back!
I also would like to thank the administrative staff who are really helpful, reactive and very nice. I also loved the cafeteria and the garden. The staff there was really nice and I had wonderful meals, really well-cooked, which completed perfectly my experience of Cairo’s delight.