Re: What languages do you speak? read? write?
English - native
Standard or 'Classical' Arabic - was very good, now slightly rusty, but could still pick up a newspaper and read it.
various Arabic dialects (which are almost seperate languages) - pretty good comprehension, speaking would be a bit rusty.
Learned Arabic while I was in military intelligence.
Speaking/understanding Arabic doesn't get you very far these days though - unless you want to get a job as a contractor in Iraq. No thanks!
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