Our literacy courses are conceived for primary, secondary and functional illiterates, as well as at students whose alphabet is not Latin. The modular structure of these courses, which take place daily, is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different learning speed within the very heterogeneous group. Over the four course levels, participants develop and expand their phonological awareness and build their knowledge from the sound-letter level through the word and sentence level to text comprehension. The development of oral language skills, especially pronunciation and chunks, plays just as important a role as reading and writing.