In the months before Year Course I began to teach myself some basic Arabic. I got out a book and some CDs only realizing after the fact that they focused on two different Arabic dialects. Suffice to say that I was going out of my mind trying to figure out when to use each of the 7 ways I knew to say "Hello".
Upon arriving at my apartment I found the booklet that is being used by the Beginners Arabic class I will be taking while I'm here. I didn't know whether to be more alarmed or amused when I discovered that the translations and transliterations of the Arabic are written in Hebrew (without vowels). Not only do I have to try and guess which vowels to use when pronouncing unknown Arabic words with Hebrew letters but I will also have to look up the English meaning of any Hebrew translation I don't know.
This should be very, very interesting...
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