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When you move to another country as an adult, the language flows around you like a river. Perhaps a child can immediately abandon himself to the current, but most older people will begin by picking ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...

Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Nick McClellan, a junior at Thornton Academy, writes a lesson in Arabic ...

I was extremely nervous to begin studying Arabic at Georgetown University. Like most people who study Arabic, I had some valid concerns about learning a language radically different from my first ...

When the US State Department slid into my DMs, I'll admit I was a little nervous. But it turned out they had a fascinating video proposal: meet three elite diplomats fluent in French, Arabic, and Dari ...