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		<title>Arabic Lessons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning Arabic has been like that: moments of elation alternating with grim, soul-churning despair. The language is not so much hard as it is vast, with dozens of ways to form the plural and words that vary from region to region, town to town. With every sign of progress it seems to deepen beneath you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Arabic Language Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I added a link to a free online Syrian Arabic Course to the Linguistic Solutions &#8211; Links page, under &#8220;Arabic.&#8221;
 Syrian Colloquial Arabic, a Functional Course is a 400-page illustrated and fully indexed textbook, accompanied by 180 minutes of authentic recorded conversations.
It deals with modern colloquial Arabic as it is spoken in Syria, Lebanon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LibraryThing Author: Christopher P. Hurtado / churtado</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher P. Hurtado is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
See churtado&#8217;s profile page.
Read more
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		<title>Learn Surah Al-Fatihah, Al Fatiha</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn to recite Surah Al-Fatihah off by heart and learn the meaning.
Surah Al-Fatihah, &#8220;The Opening&#8221;, is the first chapter of the Holy Qur&#8217;an. It&#8217;s seven verses are a prayer for God&#8217;s guidance and stress the lordship and mercy of God. This chapter has a special role in traditional daily prayers, being recited at the start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-line Foreign Language Instruction Flashcards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently created a free FlashcardExchange account. FlashcardExchange is &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest flashcard library.&#8221; I&#8217;ve made flashcards for BYU&#8217;s Egyptian Arabic 101 (by Parkinson) and UVSC&#8217;s Chinese 1010 (Chinese Odyssey by Xueying Wang, Li-chuang Chi, and Liping Feng). With a free FlashcardExchange account, you can create unlimited flahscards, share your flahscards with friends and students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Language Instruction Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Linguistic Solutions &#8211; Links page has links to foreign language instruction resources for Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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		<title>Translation, Interpretation, Foreign Langauge Instruction, and Cross-cultural Training Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<title>Immigrants Make English a Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Congress weighs a Senate measure to make English the national or common language of the United States, many of the immigrants the legislation would affect say they wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.
&#8220;The need to learn English&#8221; is what Colombian immigrants Claudia Lopez and Christian Echeverry say drives them to attend night classes twice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinal County Program Taps Migrants to Teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 08:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anticipating a desperate need for teachers in Pinal County, Central Arizona College and Arizona State University have forged a partnership that will funnel legal immigrants with international teaching experience, particularly from Latin American countries, into classrooms in the fast-growing county.
Students in districts such as Coolidge, Florence and the city of Maricopa will directly benefit from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help is a Call Away, Ctizens Taught</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/help-is-a-call-away-ctizens-taught/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newcomers to Canada don&#8217;t always know how to reach emergency services or what to expect when police, fire or ambulance personnel show up at their door.
Some come from countries where the police are perceived as corrupt or oppressive.
That&#8217;s why Halton police have initiated a unique diversity program called Emergency Services Information to New Canadians (ESINC). [...]]]></description>
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