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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Medosa: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by 7aya: [b]i've been wanting to open a thread about the arabic language for a while now. as an egyptian woman, who was born and raised in egypt, arabic naturally is my first language. however when i was 11, my parents sent me to a british school where very little arabic was taught. i stayed in that school for two years and then moved to an amercian high school where no arabic was taught and any student speaking arabic would be fined. (if this happened in any other country they would be sued) ofcourse elhamdulleah because i was in an egyptian school until i was 10, i had already managed to learn how to read arabic. in fact all my reading nowadays are in arabic. however, although i know how to write, i dont have enough command of the (classical) arabic to write, and ofcourse i didn't really care at the time. then i went to auc, again no arabic,everything is taught in english, so no chance there to improve my language. when i graduated and had my first job, i was really embarrased when my boss asked me to write a letter in arabic. i just stared at her blankly, and stuttred, but i can't write arabic! at that moment i realised how ridcolous it is for someone like me who spent her entire life in an arabic speaking country, but is incapable of writing in arabic is! and it started haunting me. i hired a private teacher to teach me how to write, but the woman just didn't know what to do with me. and now that i'm a journalist, it makes me feel even worse. i'm forced to write in an english publication, when all i want to do is write for my own people, and how many of them can read english? now my parents are defintly to blmae for this, but the thing is they are not the only ones. i know many people especially in the upper or upper middle class, who prefer to have children with good english or french, rather than good arabic. i know people who boast, yes boast that they can't read arabic? did you ever see a french person boasting of not being able to read french? i also know many women who teach their babies english first and then later arabic. why do we have so much disrespect for our own language? and its not just any language, its the most beautiful and richest language in the world. further, speaking english has become a must if someone wants to be considered classy. does this happen in any language? when i went to france and germany, i was really impressed by how much these people respect their languages. they refuse to speak any other excecpt if its a must. unlike us, where you find two egyptians sitting in a cafe, speaking only in english. its not just that, but look around at the shop names, its all in english. its "balady" to write it in arabic. even my dad he put the name of our store on both sides in english. and i told him why don't you put one side in arabic? i mean you are in egypt, and you are selling to egyptians arent you? my question is why don't we love our language? why don't we respect it? do we realise how many people would love to learn arabic? i also want to know why so many foreigners come to egypt and not learn any arabic. in my high school my math teacher was in egypt for 30 years, 30 years and he doesn't speak arabic. would it have been the same if he was living in germany, or france? also my uncle's wife is american and she lived in egypt for ten years and didn't know except very basic arabic words like men fadlek, shemal, yemeen. unfortunatly there are many cases like that. i've met very few foreigners who were able to master the language. also as a side topic, i'm very curious to know what arabic sounds like to non arabic speaking people? best[/b][/QUOTE] I know I am going to get a lot of flack here, but I am in support of your parents here... Arabic is not a useful language. In fact I would go as far as saying it should be a dead language... It is very limited and limiting. For example the pathetic effort to translate Cunningham's manual of practical anatomy (Koshari may know), resulted in such howlers as, superficial fascia , being called " safaieeh motaraqreqah sateheyya" for those who may work it out in Arabic...he he he <IMG SRC="http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/smile.gif"> It may have some beautiful aspects...I concede...but as a practical language in Science, Medicine, or Technology...it is sadly a total dead loss <IMG SRC="http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/frown.gif"> I will not answer any hate mail on this topic.....specially if it is about Arabic being the language God spoke..etc...but any other OBJECTIVE debate , I will respond to.. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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