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		<title>Arabic Lessons</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2008/01/05/arabic-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Global Naming â€œGotchasâ€ Trip Up Microsoft and General Motors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Later this year PC users in Latvia can look forward to a chicken on every disk when Microsoft releases Vista, which in Latvian means â€œfrumpy womanâ€ or â€œchicken.â€
Meanwhile, closer to home, Microsoft media users in Quebec raised their eyebrows last summer when the company announced its new Zune media player. It seems that â€œZuneâ€ sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/29/global-naming-%e2%80%9cgotchas%e2%80%9d-trip-up-microsoft-and-general-motors/</link>
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		<title>Global Handshake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Sooner or later, it happens to everyone running a business. You notice that more and more of your meetings are with people with unpronounceable last names or in cities far removed from North America or Western Europe. You find yourself eating sushi with a big customer in Osaka or jetting off to meet with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/29/global-handshake/</link>
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		<title>Syrian Arabic Language Course</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/28/syrian-arabic-language-course/</link>
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		<title>Al-Jazeera English and Press Interpreter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I added links to the Al-Jazeera English &#8211; Front Page and Press  Interpreter &#124; The foreign language news in English to the Linguistic Solutions &#8211; Global Culture page, under &#8220;Read a Foreign Newspaper &#8211; Expand Your Point of View,&#8221; one of 7 Strategies for Expanding Your Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity.
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		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/28/al-jazeera-english-and-press-interpreter/</link>
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		<title>Al Jazeera English Goes Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera English, the new international news channel from the Qatar-based television network, has begun broadcasting from its main studios in Doha.
The opening broadcast, which was expected to be available in 80 million households around the world, took place at 3pm Doha time (12:00 GMT) and featured a clip introducing the channel.
Aiming to be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/26/al-jazeera-english-goes-live/</link>
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		<title>LibraryThing Author: Christopher P. Hurtado / churtado</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/26/410/</link>
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		<title>Iraqi Pressure Vault</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a geographic standpoint, Iraq is caught between a rock and a hard place. Its neighbors offer either pressure or non-support. Syria creates pressure by encouraging insurgent elements to freely enter western Iraq. From the east, Iran inflicts pressure on Iraqâ€™s political institutions by funding Shiite militias. Friendly support from Iraqâ€™s northern border has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/16/iraqi-pressure-vault/</link>
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		<title>Learn Surah Al-Fatihah, Al Fatiha</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/16/learn-surah-al-fatihah-al-fatiha/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Arabs: A Westerner&#8217;s Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people, especially in the West, have a pre-conceived idea of what constitutes an Arab. These ideas usually fall into the 1970s western image of the urban Arab as excessively wealthy, or the more romantic desert Arab portrayed by Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia. These images may be mixed with those of religious fanaticism, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/16/understanding-arabs-a-westerners-guide/</link>
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