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Article: ARABIC CLASSES GAIN POPULARITY MORE HIGH SCHOOLS TACKLE TOUCH LANGUAGE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2005
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Most teens fill their homes with the blaring sound of rock music
when they crank up their computer speakers. Not Sarah Amin, who fills
her North Attleborough home with the sing-song chants and guttural
grunts of a Middle Eastern tongue.
Similar sounds drift from a Deerfield Academy classroom in Central
Massachusetts most mornings, while at the Northfield Mount Hermon
School in Western Massachusetts, students practice their alif, baa,
taa 's in halting calligraphy.
The students are working on Arabic, which a small but growing
number of US schools have been embracing.
Just as President Nixon's trip to China in 1972 ignited interest
in learning Chinese, the war on terrorism has whetted demand ...