Our English Classes
Our adult ESL classes meet on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm, but fall semester registration is finished! Your next chance to register will be in January, just after the New Year. See information below, or scroll down for a list of other ESL classes in the area.
REGISTRATION
Registration happens in August and January. Check back to this website in December to see registration dates in January for the Spring semester!
REGISTRATION
Since class already started, you will have to register on your first day. The cost is still the same, since our teachers are volunteers. You are paying for your curriculum (books), not your teacher!
General registration for the Fall 2024 semester happened in mid-August and is complete. Late registration MAY be possible by coming to a class day, depending on the level tested into, but
- The student may face a considerable wait to be tested (our volunteers will be busy TEACHING, not placement-testing like during registration!);
- There will be a $20 late fee, bringing the total to $70;
- Childcare is FULL — absolutely NO EXCEPTIONS;
- Once tested, you may or may not be admitted, according to how full your particular level is. We are brokenhearted to turn eager students away, but we want to provide quality learning opportunities to our current students!
If you don’t make it into Fall 2024 class, check this website in October or November for information about registration for Spring 2025 during January. Students desiring to bring small children should prioritize coming on the FIRST day of registration, as childcare fills VERY quickly.
Registration was completed in early January and we are full for the spring semester (until May). Regular registrations during August and early January are when our team is devoted to registration. Now our team is devoted to teaching our classes, so we have exceedingly limited personnel to administer placement tests. It is even possible you may be turned away on any given day and asked to return a different day to test, as we can only administer a limited number of placement tests per day with limited personnel. If you test into a level that is full, you will be placed on a waitlist.
COST
The cost (fees) for a semester is $50. If you don’t have $50, come to registration anyway and talk to us about your situation. Our teachers are volunteers, so you are paying for your curriculum (books), not your teacher! Please bring your fees to registration day. We can accept cash only.
CHILDCARE
We have a nursery and a playroom for small children, but our kids’ program fills very quickly. If you want to bring children, we recommend coming to register on the FIRST day registration opens in January.
DETAILS
For the comfort of those students who prefer, our classes are separated by gender. We have eleven classes: Four levels of phonics for women learning to read, five levels for women who can read, and two levels for men. We also have a men’s phonics class and an evening practice session once a week.
We are a Christian organization, so we include a story each day from the Holy Bible (Taurat, Zabur or Injil-e Sharif) in our classes. Most are stories Catholics and Muslims usually already know. Many are told in both the Holy Bible and Qur’an.
While we welcome students from all linguistic backgrounds, historically more than 90% of our students have spoken Dari or Pashto. Joining our classes truly means entering “Afghanis-burg”!
If you have a question, you can call us at 540.300.1334 (calls only — no texts are received at this number). We are sorry that we can take questions in English only.
LOCATION & PARKING: Our classes meet downtown at New City Fellowship Church, near the Hazel Hill housing complex. The address is 200 Prince Edward Street, Fredericksburg, VA, 22401. Don’t park on the street; the police might give you a ticket! The parking lot is behind the church building. The location where you enter the parking lot recently changed. The new entrance is on Dunmore Street/Gunnery Road near the HeadStart preschool. To enter the parking lot, drive west on Dunmore Street (toward the Walker-Grant Center) to the intersection of Dunmore Street and Ferdinand Street. Keep going and look for the open yellow gate on your right. At the gate, turn right into the parking lot. For details, visit our parking page.
