I could hear my mother giggling from the living room. “It is when you’re an Arab in America, Mama.” I may have been 12 or 13 years old when this conversation took place, even though my skilful word ...
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A decision by Qatar’s educational authorities that the country’s leading public university should revert to Arabic as its language of instruction has stirred up debate in the small, gas-rich Persian ...
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English speakers, here’s how to pronounce ‘Qatar’
The pronunciation of Qatar, a small country on the Arabian Peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf, is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. However, to English speakers, ...
IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.
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