[lg policy] [Edling] Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


BBC News



Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon



When Randa Makhoul, an art teacher at a school in Beirut, asks her
students a question in Arabic, she often gets a reply in English or
French.



"It's frustrating to see young people who want to speak their mother
tongue articulately, but cannot string a sentence together properly,"
she said at the Notre Dame de Jamhour school in the Lebanese capital.



Mrs Makhoul is just one of several Lebanese teachers and parents who
are concerned that increasing numbers of young people can no longer
speak Arabic well, despite being born and raised in the Middle Eastern
country.



Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10316914.stm

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