Tuesday January 15, 2008
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Arabic, Again
Pic from a few weeks ago at Arabic school in Cairo (left to right: me, Jun a "Doctors without Borders" worker from Tokyo, who sent me this pic, and Francesco, a university student from Italy who really likes "russ bilaban", i.e., rice with milk, which is what you can buy in little stores all over the place):
I learned an incredible amount of Arabic for the time I spent there (much more than last time in Alexandria). Now, I can write Arabic (albeit badly), read it (though slowly and without necessarily understanding what I'm reading), and have small conversations with real Arabic people (so long as they're Egyptian and so long as they need to be told "go left, here, right here, now, right now, no, the second one, and please turn right, not left, please"). And a lot more. I surprised myself at the amount of Arabic I learned. It's a lot less scrawly than it seems at first sight.
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