Level B2 — Upper-Intermediate
B2 is where you stop merely speaking correctly and start speaking appropriately. You switch between registers — street language to formal — negotiate, analyse media and express yourself spontaneously on complex topics, including professional ones: law, business, medicine, technology. Spoken only.
70
105
Spoken
~8–9 months · opens after B1 — future enrollment
In-person classes are 40% more expensive than online (covers room rent and travel).
The difference between B1 and B2 is not how much you know but how well you choose. At B2 the same idea can be said three ways and you pick the one that fits — with a friend, with a client, in an argument. That is what stylistic register, code-switching and nuanced connectors are for: they are the difference between someone who speaks Arabic and someone who sounds Lebanese.
The 70 lessons open with a B1 review and diagnostic, then add abstract and professional vocabulary, persuasion, negotiation and debate, and complex narration and description. The media work steps up from understanding the news to analysing it: films, songs, talk shows.
The last stretch goes into cultural depth — religion, politics, and the dialect variation between Lebanese regions — and finishes on spontaneous extended discourse. Around 8–9 months, two 90-minute lessons a week, opening after B1.
By the end of this level you can
- Move naturally between formal and street register depending on who is listening
- Negotiate, persuade and hold a position in a debate
- Use the professional vocabulary of your own field (law, business, medicine, technology)
- Analyse a film, a song or a talk show rather than just follow it
- Narrate and describe at length, with nuance and the right connectors
- Tell where in Lebanon someone is from by how they speak
Full curriculum
Block 1 — Where you start (Lessons 1–6)
- B1 review & diagnostic
Block 2 — Register & nuance (Lessons 7–22)
- Stylistic register (formal vs. street, code-switching)
- Nuanced connectors & discourse markers
Block 3 — Professional vocabulary (Lessons 23–38)
- Abstract & professional vocabulary (law, business, medicine, technology)
Block 4 — Persuasion & narration (Lessons 39–52)
- Persuasion, negotiation, debate
- Complex narration & description
Block 5 — Media & cultural depth (Lessons 53–64)
- Media: films, songs, talk shows, news analysis
- Cultural depth: religion, politics, internal dialect variation
Block 6 — Spontaneity & assessment (Lessons 65–70)
- Spontaneous extended discourse
- Assessment