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 From the remote mountains of Algeria where he was born to Switzerland, where he lives today, Abdallah Nacereddine has spent his lifetime traveling and lived in many European countries, Asia and the U.S. He 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.
Nacereddine knew only a regional dialect of Berber until he was 13, when he left home to attend French primary school in the nearest village. He then studied Arabic in the larger city of Constantine. He taught himself the English language.
Adopting the world as his homeland, he embarked on years of travel and lived in such countries as Tunisia, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, America and Japan. He eventually settled in Geneva, Switzerland in 1976.
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 Volume II: Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese and Turkish (unpublished).
(See General Catalogue)
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