Arabic tutoring for Gulf families, from the school curriculum to the exam paper

My child speaks Arabic at home. Why does it still need tutoring?

Arabic tutoring at LiveTutor is one-to-one lessons in Modern Standard Arabic for native speakers and second-language learners, matched to your child's curriculum: Ministry of Education courses across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, Arabic requirements in British and American schools, and Islamic Studies content where that is the goal. Lessons run 60 minutes in LiveTutor's own online classroom with video and a shared whiteboard, mixing reading comprehension, grammar and morphology (nahw and sarf), dictation and written composition, because school Arabic exams reward precise written accuracy, not just fluent speech. Arabic lessons cost $15 a lesson, the single rate published on the LiveTutor pricing page, bought as a weekly plan of 1 to 5 lessons a week billed monthly, and the first lesson is a free trial.

Spoken dialect and Modern Standard Arabic are close relatives, not the same language. A child who argues easily at home can still lose marks on i'rab endings, hamza rules and the formal register the exam expects, because written MSA is a learned skill, not an inherited one. This is why Arabic is the subject where confident speakers quietly underperform: nobody corrected their written Arabic the way a French teacher corrects verb agreements.

The diagnosis is usually narrow. An experienced tutor reads a page of the child's writing and names the three or four habits actually costing marks, then drills exactly those. Once the gap is named, it is usually smaller than it looked.

Which Arabic curricula do your tutors teach?

We match to your child's exact course: Ministry of Education Arabic for the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, the Arabic strands in British and American schools (first-language and second-language pathways are different subjects in disguise), and bilingual programmes where Arabic arrives in only a few periods a week.

Islamic Studies is taught too. If the goal is Qur'anic reading accuracy, tajweed foundations or the language of the texts, say so when you enquire and we match for it.

What does an Arabic lesson look like?

Lessons are text-based. The student reads aloud while the tutor tunes pronunciation and fluency, the passage becomes the vehicle for grammar: parsing sentences, naming the rules, then applying them in short written exercises the tutor marks line by line, the same way the exam will.

Writing gets deliberate attention because that is where marks are lost: dictation (imla) for spelling and hamza rules, composition (insha) for structure and register. In exam years, lessons cycle through the school's paper format with past questions marked against the official model answers.

Do you teach Arabic to non-native speakers?

Yes. Bilingual families across the Gulf raise children who understand Arabic comfortably but cannot read or write it, and international-school students choose Arabic as a second language for the same reason other families choose French. For these learners the order flips: conversation and listening first, then the alphabet system, then reading, with the tutor speaking mostly Arabic from early on and English used only as a safety net.