Abdallah Nacereddine, an American citizen of Algerian birth, was a teacher of Arabic at the United Nations, Geneva, from September 1976 to March 1999. Previously he did all kinds of jobs, while traveling for 25 years, from one city, one country or from one continent to another, and, at the same time, studying by himself. Self-taught, with little formal schooling, he has always taught somewhere, sometime or another, as he started to teach the Holy Koran to children of his own age, or younger or older, when he was only twelve years old, after he had learned it himself by heart.
He speaks Berber, Arabic, French and English. He has been involved in the study of a dozen and half different languages. In addition to world languages, he is interested in Eastern and Western philosophies, psychology, world history, social sciences, world religions, and international relations.
After leaving Algeria and before settling in Geneva, Switzerland, he lived in Tunisia, France, Germany, Greece, Egypt, the USA and Japan. In the meantime he undertook a six-month trip around the world during which he visited some Asian and Middle-Eastern countries.
Publications: Various books on Arabic language teaching, in particular an Arabic grammar in English and French, dialogues manuals, an interactive Arabic CD-ROM and a basic multilingual dictionary (Nacereddine''s Multilingual Dictionary) Volume I: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Volume II: Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese and Turkish (unpublished).
Website: http://www.anacereddine.com
