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

What do CurioKids lessons cost in Iraq?

Plans are counted in lessons per week. Starter gives your child 1, Growth 2 and Accelerator 3. On all three, the lesson is live and 1-to-1 with a real teacher, 25 minutes long, in the CurioKids online classroom.

With more lessons each week, every lesson costs a little less, and Starter is the smallest amount to pay. The classroom and progress updates have no charge of their own.

Do families in Iraq pay in dollars or dinars?

Plans for families in Iraq are priced in US dollars. Pick Iraq as your country when you set up your parent account, and both the prices and the payments are in dollars.

A card in Iraqi dinars still works: your bank may convert the dollar amount, and your statement may show it in dinars. Payments are processed by Stripe, and CurioKids never sees your full card number.

What does every plan give 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.

Whether your child speaks Arabic, Kurdish or another language at home, English brings left-to-right writing, letters that keep their shape and a vowel in every word. The reading course takes these one step at a time. Lessons follow the CurioKids curriculum rather than the school syllabus, in Arabic-medium schools and in the Kurdistan Region alike.

How does paying every 4 weeks fit the school year in Iraq?

Schools in Iraq run from the autumn to early summer, with a mid-year break. Billing every 4 weeks, not by the calendar month, means a payment always buys the same number of lessons, even when a month holds a holiday.

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.

In Ramadan, when the family's day changes shape, you can move to a different slot or drop to Starter for a few weeks. If you travel to see family in the holidays, cancel the lessons you won't make and keep the plan.

When can lessons fit a week in Iraq?

When you book, every lesson time is shown in Iraq time, and since Iraq doesn't change its clocks, your slot stays at the same local time all year. After school, about 4pm to 8pm, works for many children, planned around prayer times. The weekend is Friday and Saturday, so a Saturday morning can be a quiet time for English.

If electricity or internet tends to drop at certain hours, choose a slot when it usually holds, keep the tablet or laptop charged, and use headphones in a busy home. If the teacher is somewhere that changes its clocks, check your next lesson times in spring and autumn. Our guide to online lessons across time zones explains why.

Which plan suits a child in Iraq?

How much English your child has met so far varies a lot between schools and regions, so start from where they are:

• Starter, 1 lesson a week: a young child meeting English for the first time, or a child at a private school who already has plenty of English and wants speaking time.
• Growth, 2 lessons a week: a child learning to read left to right and spell every vowel, who benefits from practising twice a week.
• Accelerator, 3 lessons a week: an older child who reads Arabic or Kurdish well and wants to move quickly, or a child starting at a school that teaches more in English.

Plans can change as your child does. Our guide how many English lessons a week does my child need? explains the choice, and online English lessons for children in Iraq covers English at school for Arabic- and Kurdish-speaking families.

How does the cost compare with English classes outside school in Iraq?

Many families in Iraq look for English outside school: a class at an institute, a private teacher, or lessons online. Each sets its fee differently, so before comparing, line up what your child receives:

• The fee per lesson, not per course, and the real length of each lesson.
• The number of children in the room, and the share of time your child speaks.
• Whether reading is taught with phonics, and how much of the lesson is spent speaking.
• Costs for books or registration beyond the course fee.
• The journey there and back, and who in the family has time to take your child.

A larger class often charges less per hour, because many families share the teacher. Our guide 1-to-1 or group English classes: which suits my child? compares the two approaches.

How do families in Iraq start with a free first lesson?

Set up a parent account, add your child and book the free first lesson; no card is needed. The teacher chats with your child, finds out what they already know and records a starting level, so lessons for children aged 4 to 12 start in the right place. You then choose whether to continue, and if you don't, nothing is charged.

Lessons open country by country. If lessons for families in Iraq haven't opened yet, this page shows a waitlist in place of the prices. Our guide on what to look for in a free first lesson explains how to judge it.

Where can I check the prices for Iraq?

Visit our Iraq page to see how lessons work and, once lessons for families in Iraq 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 Iraq also show any current offer and its terms. Our Iraq page is also in العربية. For school, English at home and lesson times in Iraq, read our guide to online English lessons for children in Iraq.