A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

Iraqi students from the University of Mosul are on a mission to share English content with their peers in Arabic. Iraqi students from the University of Mosul are on a mission to share English content ...

I could hear my mother giggling from the living room. “It is when you’re an Arab in America, Mama.” I may have been 12 or 13 years old when this conversation took place, even though my skilful word ...

April 2007With the business universe becoming a common ground for the English and Arabic speaking worlds, Sara Kilani looks at the impact of Arabish as a rising language barrier. Afew years ago, HSBC ...

Arabic has become a much more widely spoken language in the United States in recent decades. The number of people ages 5 and older who speak Arabic at home in the U.S. rose from 215,000 in 1980 to 1.4 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article provides a snapshot of the experiences of 18 students studying abroad in Cairo, Egypt. Using a modified version of the language ...