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By allisonray94

No matter where you're studying in the world, homework will always take up approximately 86% of your time. Classes have started and, as such, I've had so much less time to see Amman. At the same time I'm learning more Arabic than ever. That tends to happen when all of your classes are taught in Arabic. With Fusha (formal Arabic) and Aamiyya (Jordanian Dialect Arabic) classes, that's not so bad. We have vocabulary lists every week. On the other hand, try taking a college-level Literature class in Arabic. In our last class we collectively struggled to describe personification in Arabic. The Language Pledge is like a game of Taboo that never ends.

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