“Er… Arabic.” (讲阿拉伯语……) “Great Tim. Now can we get you to introduce yourself and say, ‘I’m fluent in 23 languages’ in German.” “It’s not really true. But…” “No, no, just tell the audience.” (讲德语……) ...
I started taking Arabic when I was 14 in a summer program going into 9th grade. This is summer of 2010. After a month I found that I could read and write without a problem. I’d learned the basics of the formal language and one of its major dialects. And it turned me onto the ...