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We Speak Your Language

With students from around the world representing more than 50 countries, The Awty International School's Language Department is proud to offer a structure that will fit your needs. Courses are available in a wide range of levels in the core languages of the school: Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish.

To reflect the International diversity of Awty a range of other languages including Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian and Russian but not limited to these are available under specific conditions determined by the School*.

*Additional fees apply to those language classes. Please contact the language department for more information.

Guy Benet
Head of Languages
713-328-5855

The Programs and The Teachers

ARABIC

Mayada Al-Douri - Arabic Coordinator Middle School, Upper School and IB

Ali Al-Maqtari – Middle and Upper School

CHINESE:

Tzu-Hui Dequin - Middle and Upper School
Jiayao Pang - Chinese Coordinator Middle School, Upper School and IB
Tairong Zheng – Middle School, Upper School and IB

Meggie Wu – Middle School, Upper School and IB

DUTCH

Miranda de Vries - Middle School, Upper School, IB Dutch Coordinator and Dutch Coordinator

Candace Huijgen –Lower and Middle School

Click here for the Dutch program's website.

FRENCH

Ali Al-Maqtari, Upper School
Mélanie Gauthy – Middle School
Frédéric Houville - French Coordinator, Middle School, Upper School, and IB
Valérie Le Tourneur-Génin - Middle School, Upper School, and IB
Sonia Richi - Middle School, Upper School, and IB
Nadia Triki - Middle School, Upper School, and IB

Maria Cristina Villasenor, Middle and Upper School
Ilham Yahia - Middle School, Upper School, and IB

GERMAN

Karin Ciglenec - German Coordinator, Middle and Upper School (French Section)
Lioba Royal – Middle School, Upper School and IB

GREEK

Genevieve Lavaud (French Bilingual Section)

ITALIAN

Patrizia Stankovich - Upper School, IB and French Baccalauréat

JAPANESE

Akiko Onda

NORWEGIAN

Sigrid Melle – IB

PERSIAN

Fereshteh Pahlavan

PORTUGUESE

Renata Bevilacqua – IB

RUSSIAN

Alex Balaban - Middle School and French Section

SPANISH

Renata Bevilacqua - Middle and Upper School, French Bilingual Section Coordinator
Juan Carlos Bloomer - Middle School, Upper School, and IB

Silvia Calvo – Middle School, Upper School and IB

Mélanie Gauthy – French Section college and Lycée
Vicky Linares - Middle School, Upper School
Javier Marin - Middle School, Upper School, and IB
Jorge Marquez - Spanish Coordinator, Middle School, Upper School and IB
María Páez de Salinas - Middle School, Upper School, and IB
Maria Cristina Villaseñor, Middle School, Upper School and IB

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