Comments on: Bring on the stories https://gingerbeirut.com/bring-on-the-stories/ An outsider's commentary on Lebanese culture and society. Rules not included. Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 By: P. https://gingerbeirut.com/bring-on-the-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-58115 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:39:30 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1968#comment-58115 I meant they were learning *classical* Arabic

]]> By: P. https://gingerbeirut.com/bring-on-the-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-58114 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:37:38 +0000 https://gingerbeirut.com/?p=1968#comment-58114 One day my young niece comes home from school to tell her mom she learned some English in class ( one of those french systems Lebanese schools). My sister is confused since they were not supposed to start learning English at such a young age so she asks her what did you learn?

My niece proudly recites ” Sabahou el khairi ya anisa, kayfa halouki? ” :-D

Turns out they were learning colloquial Arabic but the language was so completely foreign to her that she thought it was “English” that weird language she sometimes hears her distant cousins speak :-)

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