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To: Ilaine who wrote (39692)	8/24/2002 12:28:54 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<learning Arabic>> Please ask your son to find out what badi means. My wife has a horse named Luna Badi and we know the Luna means moon. I asked a 13 year old boy from Saudia Arabia who stayed 2 months in my neighborhood this summer but he only speaks English.

To: Ilaine who wrote (39692)	8/24/2002 6:03:59 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Re: learning Arabic - I'd highly recommend subscribing to Al Jazeera on Dish Network, right from the start, to be exposed to the sound of authentic spoken language. Plus, news broadcasts are articulated clearly making it easier to hear the words. Obviously one won't understand anything at first, but gradually bits and pieces will fall in place, and if any kind of conversation is a goal, it's invaluable. I'm afraid I can't recommend any good dictionaries for Arabic, but my experience with French is that it's worth having a couple good ones right away, and also to get ahold of newspapers and try to decipher them as part of the studies, whether they do this in class or not. Just remember that it takes more effort than anyone can possibly imagine to really get very far with any foreign language (for actually speaking one anyway), but it's a fascinating thing to learn. [If they told the truth about how difficult it is to make real progress in learning a foreign language, I doubt anybody would even begin !]