All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
โ Scribed by O'Neill, Zora
- Book ID
- 109199567
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- ar-SA
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780547853185
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"The shaddais the key difference between a pigeon (hamam,????) and a bathroom (hammam,?????). Be careful, our professor advised, in the first moment of outright humor in class, that you don't ask a waiter, 'Excuse me, where is the pigeon?' โ or, conversely, order a roasted toilet."
If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard.
They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O'Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldn't shake her fascination with the...
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