(MENAFN- The Peninsula) With participation of 113 students, Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center in Doha launched on Sunday free and intensive courses to teach the Turkish language for the beginners.
The virtual zoom classes included 113 students for both first and second levels of the language course and will continue until August 31, (12 hours per week), through the Zoom platform for distance education.
Dr. Seljuk Kuja, Director of Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center said: 'The free intensive educational courses for teaching the Turkish language for the beginners has enrolled 113 participants, 70 of them at level 1, and 43 in level 2. The course is being taught by experienced and highly qualified teachers in small groups. 
He said that in line with health precautionary measures the classes conducted through Zoom. Dr. Kuja expressed his pleasure for the success of the previous courses and students' interaction with the teaching and learning processes witnessed. 
'The Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center keeps pace with the continuous developments in order to facilitate the educational process and equip the participants with the necessary capabilities to develop their skills and enhance language command, said Dr. Kuja.  
He said that providing the language courses comes at the forefront of the center's activities to spread the Turkish culture and language, which are activities that reflects the effective role the Yunus Emre Center playing in the field of cultural diplomacy.
Turkish Cultural Center in Doha recorded and broadcasted the academic levels of the first and second phases of its educational courses via the center's YouTube channel. 
In addition to the continuing free language courses through its website (Learnturkish.com), where the center concluded successfully the previous courses with online exams in which 90 students participated in five academic levels, applying the direct interactive lessons system using ‘Zoom' program.
The Center also launched the ‘Rethinking, Re-Expression' program through live broadcasts on its social media sites. The program witnessed fruitful interaction meetings moderated by Prof. 
Sharaf H President of the Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Institute hosted a group of thinkers, famous figure on literature and arts as part of the institute efforts to introduce the Turkish culture and arts.

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