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- Title: All Strangers Are Kin
- Author : Zora O'Neill
- Release Date : January 14, 2016
- Genre: Middle East,Books,Travel & Adventure,Essays & Memoirs,Reference,Foreign Languages,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4851 KB
Description
An American woman determined to learn the Arabic language travels to the Middle East to pursue her dream in this âwitty memoirâ (Us Weekly).
The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you donât ask a waiter, âExcuse me, where is the pigeon?ââor, conversely, order a roasted toilet . . .
If youâve ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora OâNeill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard.
They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. OâNeill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldnât shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back inâthis time with a new approach.
In this book, she takes us along on her grand tour through the Middle East, from Egypt to the United Arab Emirates to Lebanon and Morocco. Sheâs packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense of humor, and her talent for making fast friends of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, from familiesâ homes to local hotspots, she brings a part of the world thousands of miles away right to your doorâand reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.
âYou will travel through countries and across centuries, meeting professors and poets, revolutionaries, nomads, and nerds . . . [A] warm and hilarious book.â âAnnia Ciezadlo, author of Day of Honey
âHer tale of her âYear of Speaking Arabic Badlyâ is a genial and revealing pleasure.â âThe Seattle Times
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