re: Arabic vernacular

Submitted by LUANNE M ASHE (Canada), Feb 12, 2017 at 08:29

Handy. The first words I learned were how to tell when someone was talking about me, or swearing at me. While on exchange with Canada World Youth back in 1975, my second words cursing back perfunctorily in the Tunisian manner. I did, however, learn to haggle in the souks and to survive being billeted with a non-English speaking family.

I wanted to continue my Arabic studies when I returned home, but the text I purchased was in French, and that proved too daunting a grammatical exercise.

Perhaps now I know where to continue my Arabic language studies.

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