How much do online English lessons for kids cost in Egypt?

How much do CurioKids lessons cost in Egypt?

Your child has 1 lesson a week on Starter, 2 on Growth or 3 on Accelerator, and that is the only difference between the plans. The lesson is the same on each: live and 1-to-1 for 25 minutes with a real teacher in the CurioKids online classroom.

Lessons get cheaper one by one as you add more each week, and Starter keeps the payment smallest. The classroom and progress reports carry no extra fee.

Which currency do families in Egypt pay in?

Plans for families in Egypt are priced in US dollars. Choose Egypt when you create your parent account, and you'll see the prices and make the payments in dollars.

If you pay with a card in Egyptian pounds, your bank may convert the amount, and your statement may show the pound figure. Stripe handles the payment, and CurioKids never sees your full card number.

What is included for my child?

Every plan includes the same: live, 1-to-1, 25-minute lessons with a real teacher for children aged 4 to 12, in the CurioKids online classroom with video, an interactive whiteboard, lesson slides and games. Most children start with Phonics Starter, our 52-lesson reading course, then move through CEFR-based levels Pre-A1, A1 and A2. Teachers give feedback after lessons, you follow progress in your parent dashboard, and there is no charge for materials. See our curriculum and safety pages.

For many Egyptian children, the reading course helps with spelling every vowel, which written Arabic usually leaves out, and with sounds that are new, such as p, v and the English j. CurioKids follows its own curriculum, whatever your child's school, and is not linked to school exams or the Thanaweya Amma.

How does billing every 4 weeks fit the school year in Egypt?

The school year in Egypt starts in the autumn and ends in early summer, with a mid-year break between the two terms. Billing every 4 weeks means every payment buys the same lessons, so you aren't paying the same for a short month as for a long one.

Plans bill every 4 weeks, not by calendar month, so every billing period has the same number of lessons: 13 payments a year. Every plan can be paid weekly instead, and paying every 4 weeks costs less than four weekly payments. You're charged when you subscribe and then at the start of each billing period. Your price is locked on your subscription, so future price changes don't affect you. You can change plan or cancel anytime, and cancel a single lesson up to 2 hours before it starts.

Around exams, you might drop to Starter for a few weeks and come back up afterwards. In Ramadan, moving the lesson to a different time of day is often easier than stopping, and over the summer you can add lessons while school is out.

When would lessons happen in Egypt time?

When you book, every lesson time is shown in Egypt time. A school-day slot between about 4pm and 8pm, planned around prayer times, fits most routines. The weekend is Friday and Saturday, and a Saturday morning is often calm. Learning at home also means no drive across town, and in Cairo traffic that drive can outlast the lesson.

Egypt has moved its clocks forward for the summer in recent years, and the rules have changed from time to time. If your clocks and your child's teacher's clocks change on different dates, a lesson may move by an hour for a week or two, so check your next lesson times in spring and autumn. Our guide to online lessons across time zones explains more.

Which plan suits a child in Egypt?

Your child's school type is a useful guide:

• Starter, 1 lesson a week: a child at an international school who uses English all day and needs a little focused help with reading for meaning or writing.
• Growth, 2 lessons a week: a child at an experimental or private language school, where maths and science are in English and regular speaking helps them keep up.
• Accelerator, 3 lessons a week: a child at an Arabic-medium government school who understands some English but rarely speaks it, and wants to build confidence quickly.

These are starting points, and you can switch plans at any time. Our guide how many English lessons a week does my child need? helps you decide, and online English lessons for children in Egypt explains how English differs between schools here.

How does the cost compare with centres and group lessons in Egypt?

In Egypt, group lessons and centres often follow school work and exam practice with several children together, and private tutors usually charge by the session. To compare them fairly with 1-to-1 lessons online, look past the fee:

• The cost of a single session, and how many minutes of teaching it holds.
• How many children attend, and whether your child gets to speak or mostly listens.
• Whether the focus is this week's homework and tests, or reading and speaking skills.
• Notes, booklets or registration charged separately.
• The time spent in traffic getting to a centre and back.

A group shares one teacher, so each child pays less and speaks less. A 1-to-1 lesson is built around your child. Our guide 1-to-1 or group English classes: which suits my child? looks at both.

Is there a free first lesson for families in Egypt?

Yes. Create a parent account, add your child and book; you won't be asked for a card. The teacher talks and plays with your child, checks their English and sets a starting level, so lessons for children aged 4 to 12 pick up from there. If you'd rather not go on, nothing is charged.

CurioKids opens to families in one country at a time. If lessons for families in Egypt haven't opened yet, you'll find a waitlist here instead of the prices. Our guide on what to look for in a free first lesson helps you make good use of it.

Where can I see the prices for Egypt?

Visit our Egypt page to see how lessons work and, once lessons for families in Egypt open, to book your child's free first lesson; until then it has a waitlist, and we'll let you know when you can book. Once they open, the prices for Egypt also show any current offer and its terms. Our Egypt page is also in العربية. For school, English at home and lesson times in Egypt, read our guide to online English lessons for children in Egypt.