Happy Friday! I just spent an invigorating hour with M., a refugee language teacher from Syria. He came to me through Chatterbox, a social enterprise that matches refugees with a talent for teaching with language students. Fantastic idea. I haven't spoken Arabic properly since the last time I was in Egypt in January 2010. That's a heck of a long time for a language to lie dormant, but I was surprised by how easily some of came back to me, and M. was amazed - 'You're half Egyptian,' he very much joked.
Learning Arabic with a Syrian wanted by ISIS
Learning Arabic with a Syrian wanted by ISIS
Learning Arabic with a Syrian wanted by ISIS
Happy Friday! I just spent an invigorating hour with M., a refugee language teacher from Syria. He came to me through Chatterbox, a social enterprise that matches refugees with a talent for teaching with language students. Fantastic idea. I haven't spoken Arabic properly since the last time I was in Egypt in January 2010. That's a heck of a long time for a language to lie dormant, but I was surprised by how easily some of came back to me, and M. was amazed - 'You're half Egyptian,' he very much joked.