by Deborah Quinn | Mar 21, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Children, expat, Kids, UAE
No, I haven’t gotten my calendars confused. In the UAE, today, March 21, is Mother’s Day. Somehow, google knows that: It’s a pretty cute drawing, google-guys, I have to say. But it’s not as good as this one: My first Arabic Mother’s Day...
by Deborah Quinn | Sep 16, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, Education, expat, language
Caleb came home from his third day at his new school and said “look, mommy, I can write my name in Arabic!” And he did: It occurs to me that he may have actually written “suck it,” and I will never know. But still…he did it in Arabic. Linguists talk about a “critical...
