Studying Arabic at Qatar University - more. Hi Alice and Adriana, if you're still reading this site. Today I bumped into two east European women who are presently on the course and asked them what they thought. Turns out my guess above was about right and the course is totally non-communicative. Worse, the Arab girls they meet all want to practice English and they couldn't meet other arabs because in the evenings they were locked into their dormitories. They escaped into their own place recently, after kicking up a protracted fuss. They actually said that Qatar was not a good place to learn Arabic, though when I reminded them the Qatari government was paying their fees, they agreed that was an advantage.