Learning and Speaking (Egyptian) Arabic
You may know by now that I am involved in an effort to learn (Egyptian) Arabic. What started some months ago on the banks of the river Rhine with Mustafa Osh, has found fruitful continuation here in Cairo with a competent Egyptian teacher named Nancy Fahmy.
I try to go to classes twice a week. Having done this rather systematically for the past four months, I am slowly starting to sense that I am making progress. I’ll talk about my learning habits and techniques (and also the books I use) in a later post.
Today, I want to tell you that, once more, I guess it is the third occasion, I addressed a public seminar sponsored by my institute in cooperation with Al Ahram’s Regional Press Institute in, yes, Egyptian Arabic.
The event was about globalization and the role of the state. I opened the seminar with a bilingual message starting off in Arabic and explaining to the audience what I think liberalism is all about.
I made an effort to just have a few notes, so the speech came along rather bumpy.
But, then, it is just a beginning.
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