We just got in a new housemate from Italy. We talked with him for a bit last night and got some basic info about the whys wheres and hows of him being here. Turns out that he’s a programmer and his employer wants someone that can communicate in Arabic and\/or read instructions in Arabic so that they can branch out into this world. So what did they do? They sent him here for 3 weeks. He doesn’t know a lick of Arabic and he will be here for three weeks to learn what his boss wants. He’ll be taking 6 hours of class a day, but even with that, there’s no way in hell anyone could be useful in this language in three weeks. With 6 hours a day, the chances of him remembering a majority of what they go over in class is close to zero. I’ve been in this country 8 or 9 months and I’m just now getting confident enough to talk to people regularly. No, I’m not the world’s best language student, but still, this is a tough language, three weeks? Give me a break…<\/p>\n
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