re: #130 SanFranciscoZionist

I took a little class in Arabic at an interfaith conference once. All the students were Jews, from Leo Baeck College, and we kept taking notes in Hebrew, because it was easier to transcribe the sounds that way—much to the annoyance of the teacher, who couldn’t see if we were writing anything down correctly.

He taught us a few verses from the Koran, and we had a great time figuring out the cognates.

I can’t get the writing either. The teacher did try to show us some of that, but it’s awfully hard compared to Hebrew.