Como?
Monday, January 15, 2007
At the start of the present academic year at the Hebrew University, several students were asked why they had decided to study English, French, German, Japanese and Chinese, instead of Arabic. One of them replied that studying a foreign language is like acquiring a key to a new house containing treasures of science and culture. Anyone studying Arabic also acquires a key, but soon discovers that it is the key to an empty house. What can one do with Arabic, he asked, adding: be a scholar of the Koran or a spy in the Shin Bet security services?
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