All Strangers Are Kin
Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
An American woman determined to learn the Arabic language travels to the Middle East to pursue her dream in this witty memoir (Us Weekly). The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you don't ask a waiter, 'Excuse me, where is the pigeon?'-or, conversely, order a roasted toilet . . . If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. They say that Arabic takes se…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-547-85319-2
- EAN: 9780547853192
- Produktnummer: 31909413
- Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'808 KB
Über den Autor
Zora O'Neill is a freelance travel and food writer. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Condé Nast Traveler, and she has written or contributed to more than a dozen titles for Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, and Moon. She lives in Queens, New York.
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