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SO YOU WANT TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE?
Then you arrive on the first day of classes and the professor (Ustaaz) is only speaking in Arabic.
It takes you months to properly pronounce the غ (ghayn) and ع (ayn).
When you're learning idaafa and you make the mistake of saying "your dad is a dog" instead of "the dog of your dad".
That look people give you when everyone around you says they're learning Spanish/French and you tell them you're learning Arabic.
The look on your parents' faces when you tell them you're learning Arabic
The moment everyone dreads "Oh, so you speak Arabic? Say something."
When you have a reading comprehension exam and you understand 10 words out of 50.
When someone from Al Maghreb tries to speak to you, but you only learned Shami
When you've been taking Arabic for more than one semester and you still can't hear the difference between ص and س or ط and ت.
When you try to speak fusha to a native speaker and they just reply in English.
When a native speaker tells you how well you speak Arabic, but you can barely understand what they’re saying
You've probably heard "YALLAH YA SHABAB" a thousand times by now.
FINALS come around and you start freaking out.
But when you actually take the final, it turns out you know more than you thought.
You realize that everything will be fine as long as you end a sentence with "Habibi!"
Finally, no matter how challenging, you realize it is all worth it because you can now speak a beautiful and rich language that connects you with more than 450 million people around the world who speak it!!
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