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To: Math Junkie who wrote (876)	2/8/2002 1:09:38 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 6945

I get francophone programming from DishNetwork, and for a few months they had all the Arabic channels in clear as a promotion last year (in the spring.) Very little of Al Jazeera is in English, and I don't recall subtitles. I think I'd have subscribed if the news channel itself had been available cheaper, but I didn't want an entire arabic package. I did think it might be fun to pick up a little arabic, at least to learn the pronunciation of the alphabet, but haven't gotten around to it. It takes nearly infinite time to get any real competence in a foreign language (as an adult anyhow) so I didn't have any illusions, but knowing a bit about the phonetic system might have been fun.