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Don't you think it's more likely to want to have a conversation about terrorism with people that speak arabic, especially in the US where it must be a constant burden for the Arabs after 9/11? On a 80 words deck having 10 words related to a very relevant news and discussion topic strikes you as weird? You didn't learn how to say bomb, kill, kidnap etc after years of learning french?

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I know a few people who speak Arabic as a first language.

Perhaps weirdly we don't chitchat about bombs and death and murder. We talk about the soccer and about the roadworks and about what they watched on telly and how their allotment-garden is doing.

Why, when you hear "Arabic", do you think a natural topic of concersation is "terrorism"?

"years of learning French" is not, however, "at the same time you're learning simple words like 'fat', 'thin', 'pink', and 'summer'".

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