Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon

[Francis Hult]

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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