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Submitted by Alan Ames, Jan 20, 2007 00:58

Which Arabic should we teach? As Prof. McWhorter says in his Teaching Company lectures (The Story of Human Language), the dialects spoken across the Arab world are very different from each other — and from the classical Arabic of the Koran.

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Which Arabic should we teach? As Prof. McWhorter says in his Teaching Company lectures (The Story of Human Language), the...

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