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| shadowcalm Triglot Newbie Taiwan Joined 5785 days ago 29 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Latin, Ancient Greek, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 41 of 43 03 December 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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While in high school, I expressed an interest in Persian and that Christmas I received the book "Colloquial Persian" as a present. All I can say is that Santa Claus totally supported my language studies.
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| SmilingStraw Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4720 days ago 35 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 42 of 43 04 December 2011 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
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I started learning Arabic a a little less than a year ago, and my parents were supportive of it, although they were confused as to why it was Arabic that I was interested in at first. When I explained to them, they realized that Arabic is a great language to study. Edited by SmilingStraw on 04 December 2011 at 7:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tzadik7 Hexaglot Newbie United States Joined 5604 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Turkish, Mandarin, Arabic (classical) | Message 43 of 43 08 December 2011 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
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I've had similar experiences with Arabic too. People always say..."well, we're glad that at least somebody will know what the terrorists are talking about". And of course...let's not forget the general stereotype of Arabic sounding like a dog choking on a bone.
Once after receiving my exhaustive Al-Mawriid Arabic-English dictionary through the mail, I proudly showed it to one of my friends and she remarked that it looked like someone had let a kid with a black and red marker go wild! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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