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Article: Students mastering Arabic in a flash
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2008
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DRAPER -- Five volunteers from the U.S. military are enrolled in
an intense, four-month course to learn one of the world's most in-
demand foreign languages.
The language proficiencies and abilities of the 221st Military
Intelligence Battalion from Fort Gillem, Ga., may astonish some, but
instructor Jabra Ghneim -- who helped translate the Book of Mormon
into Arabic -- expects such accomplishment and more, as thousands of
hours have turned out hundreds of productively fluent speakers over
the years.
"They learn it to do their jobs, to rise up in the ranks, and of
course there is a monetary motivation to it all," he said.
Jabra developed the Ace My Language method, which is currently ...