We are going to be straight with you about this one. Arabic has no equivalent of DELF or the JLPT, and anyone telling you their certificate opens a visa is overselling it. What Arabic does open is the room you are already sitting in.
We teach Arabic against the CEFR descriptors so you always know where you stand, even though the certificate landscape is thinner than it is for European languages.
There is no visa linked international Arabic certificate comparable to Goethe or DELF. We will tell you that plainly rather than sell you a qualification that no authority asks for.
If you came here expecting a tidy ladder of certificates, we would rather disappoint you now than after you have paid for one.
Arabic has no single awarding body, no universally recognised exam, and no established link between a certificate and a visa or an admission decision. The landscape is consolidating, Saudi Arabia is driving most of it, and nothing yet carries the recognition weight of the European or East Asian exams. Here is what actually exists.
Only the Hamza test claims CEFR alignment. If a centre offers you an "Arabic B2 certificate" from anything other than Hamza, ask which framework they are mapping to, because the awarding body has not published one.
Formally, less than the marketing suggests. We could not find a single case where a specific Arabic certificate at a specific level is a stated requirement for a visa, permanent residency or university admission, in the way German B2 or French B2 plainly are.
There is no Arabic language requirement for the UAE Golden Visa. UAE naturalisation is by nomination and is not a realistic route for most residents. Any Arabic course sold to you on an immigration promise is being sold dishonestly.
Arabic is not one language in practice. Deciding this at the start matters more than it does in any other language we teach.
The language of news, government, publishing, contracts and the Hamza test. It is what you need to read and write, and what every certificate examines. It is nobody's mother tongue and it is not what you will hear in a Dubai café.
What is actually spoken around you in the UAE. Faster to become useful in, useless for an exam. Most of our Dubai learners want this first and are surprised when a standard course does not deliver it.
We start most learners on Modern Standard Arabic for the script and the grammatical spine, and layer Gulf dialect alongside it for anyone who lives in the region. If your goal is conversation with colleagues rather than a certificate, we will weight it the other way round and say so plainly.
Hamza lists India among its partner locations and offers remote proctored delivery, so in principle it is accessible from both Gurugram and Dubai. We could not identify specific named centres in either country, or confirm Hamza pass marks, score scale or fees, so we verify that with the academy for each student rather than guessing.
A language is only worth the hours if it clears the bar your destination sets. TAICF, our own assessment framework, reads your target countries and courses and tells you the level to aim for, the certificate that proves it, and how it fits around your exams.
How TAICF worksFive things are in every language programme we run, whatever the language and whatever the level you start at.
Every programme includes dedicated one to one sessions with your own teacher for the questions that came up after class. Booked when you need them, not parked until the next group session.
The recording reaches you the same day, every time. Miss a class for a school exam, a work trip or a bad week and you have not missed the lesson. It is also the fastest revision tool you will have in the last fortnight.
Complete papers in the official format, timed, including the oral. Most candidates lose marks to the format rather than the language, and a mock is the cheapest place to find that out.
Before you start, we set the target and the timeline. Midway, we reset it against your mock results. Before you book the exam, we confirm you are sitting the right version on the right date. Teaching without this is just hours.
The whole course can run one to one rather than in a cohort. Your own teacher, your own pace, sessions timed around school or work, and the syllabus reordered around what you actually need first.
Every language programme is mapped to a named certificate and a named level from day one, because a certificate is what a university, an employer or a mission will actually accept. Hours studied prove nothing on an application.
Your teacher works to the examining body’s own marking criteria, and your mock papers come back with the score per paper rather than a single overall comment.
Not yet, though the Hamza test from the King Salman Global Academy is the most credible attempt and is the only one explicitly aligned to CEFR, at A2 to C1. The Arabic Competency Test has been described as an Arabic IELTS but no level structure or CEFR mapping is documented for it.
No. There is no Arabic language requirement for the UAE Golden Visa and naturalisation is by nomination. Arabic helps your career in the Gulf, not your paperwork. Be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise.
Modern Standard if you need to read, write or sit an exam. Gulf dialect if you want to talk to people around you in the UAE. Most of our learners do both, with the weighting decided by what they actually want, and we set that in the first conversation.
No Arabic awarding body publishes guided hours, so any number you see is invented. Realistically, the script and basic exchanges come within a few months of consistent study. Comfortable workplace conversation in dialect takes considerably longer, and Modern Standard longer still because the grammar is genuinely demanding for an English speaker.
Yes. That route prioritises reading classical texts and grammatical analysis over conversation, and it is a different syllabus from either the exam track or the dialect track. Tell us at the placement conversation and we will build it that way.
We start with a short conversation and a level check, so you join at the right level rather than repeating what you already know. Classes run at Gurugram and Dubai Silicon Oasis, in person and online, in small cohorts, or one to one.
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