The British Council - Qatar has announced the winners from the recent LearnEnglish Challenge Competition, which celebrated the launch of the Arabic version of the free access British Council LearnEnglish website:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ar/. The website lets all Arabic-speaking learners of English, even beginners, have access to a wealth of materials and ideas available on LearnEnglish for no cost.Over 11,500 people participated in the competition across the Mena region. Three winners are selected every month from Qatar. First place winners, Hagar Ali Mohamed Ali, Mohammed Ali Hosho and Lobna Salah Moustafa received an iPad 2. Second place winners, Shadi Majid Barghouti, Salem Mahmoud Shbib and Alhassan Ali Mohamed Ali received a Dell Inspiron laptop. Third place winners, Naglaa Mahmoud Mazeed, Reem Hassan al-Shoora, and Line Bachar received a Nokia C7 phone. Simon Winetroube, director, British Council Qatar said: “Around 1,500 students of all levels study English with the British Council in our teaching centre and we reach hundreds more through special courses offered to different organisations on their premises, but there are thousands more in Qatar who can’t find the time or the money to attend face to face classes at a set time every week.”Winetroube explained that “for some years now the British Council LearnEnglish website has offered free high-quality English language learning materials, giving all learners opportunities to access English language learning materials where they want, when they want. The British Council LearnEnglish website encourages independent learning and shows that learning alone can be both fun and productive. Now the Arabic version of LearnEnglish will offer more support than ever before to learners in Qatar and around the Arabic speaking world. I hope that it will be particularly helpful to those Arabic speakers who are just starting out learning English.”