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Author: The State News
Date: 7/28/2010

Learning Arabic can be difficult for both native speakers and newcomers to the language.

But MSU’s Detroit Center hopes to give educators useful strategies for this task during a two-week STARTALK workshop.

The national program to improve the teaching of languages, including Chinese, Arabic and Hindi, began Monday and continues through Aug. 6. This year’s theme is “Teaching and Learning Arabic in Action,” she said.

The first week of the fourth annual program focuses on providing middle and high school Arabic teachers tips and tricks for teaching the language, said Wafa Hassan, the program’s director and outreach coordinator for MSU’s Arabic Language Instruction Flagship program.

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