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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
Garick: how many languages do you speak? I am really impressed you speak arabic. Did you spend a lot of time in an arab country?
To any level of fluency, just Arabic and German. I have smatterings of other languages, and can fake my way through most of the Germanic languages, such as Dutch, but I sound like Tonto when I try.
I learned Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. 63 weeks of Arabic, 7 hours a day +homework, so I oughta be good at it. I've spent a lot of time (~2 years) in Saudi Arabia, and a bit in various other Arabic countries, mostly in the Persian Gulf region.
Had a nice session last night. Up a BI. Would have been 2, but suck-out king hit a 4-outer and a 2-outer OTR when all in pre to crack my QQ with A9 and my AA with K7.
Been so busy lately I'm averaging one session a month. Yuck! definitely hard to overcome variance with so few hours. Still, at least I'm back in the black for the year now.