#arabicproblems

[ivyleagueheart]

my teaching assistant today.

TA: Guys, I was up all night because I found something out about my man Hans Wehr [creator of the Arabic student's Bible (aka dictionary)].

TA: Apparently he was a Nazi. That mother fucker was commissioned to make a German-Arabic dictionary so that they could translate Mein Kampf into Arabic.

TA: I shit you not.

TA: This bothers me so much. Like, I'm not even fully Jewish. But I'm half Jewish, so it's still there.

TA: Nothing is sacred anymore.

[arabicproblems]

Arabic street artists hide criticisms of “Homeland’s” racist message on the show’s set...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/15/448982441/street-artists-hired-by-homeland-hide-accusations-of-shows-racism-in-plain-sight?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

[arabicproblems]

When it's nearly the beginning of the next semester and the ustaaz STILL hasn't told you how you did on the final imtahaan...

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I've gotten the nickname at work "Arabic girl" and so now people come up to me and ask me to say random words. I'm just like:

[indianazoe]

ولا مرة استخدم عقله، ولما فكّر، فكّر غلط

[arabicproblems]

When my roommate tells me I need to stop practicing the Arabic alphabet out loud:

How do you not enjoy hearing the lovely "غ"?

[arabicproblems]

When you finally get to study abroad in an Arabic speaking nation and upon arrival realize that no one understands you when you speak FSA...

[indianazoe]

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