#people seeing me practicing hebrew who took ghat as an invitation to ask me about my opinion on palestinians. and then of course the people

[jewish-microwave-laser]

look you’re never going to learn levantine arabic because you will never care enough to enlist the help of a native speaker (required to learn an arabic dialect)

i'm literally good friends with my old arabic professor who's offered to tutor me for free (i'm not gonna let him do it for free i gotta find a way i can send him something. he's like very adamant he teaches for the love of teaching but also holy shit this man needs some sort of compensation lmfao). anyway the local islamic center also offers classes (i still need to ask what dialect they teach, if at all). there's a pretty solid muslim population where i am, and i already have a lot of connections because of various things ive done here

i think it's a little silly how wrong this ask is. as if my whole motivation for learning other languages wasn't to form connections with that community. language learning to me isn't a fun little hobby, it's integral to my beliefs as a person. my whole life is about personal connections and conversations with those different than myself to build bridges and forge connections. i wouldn't dream of learning a language in a vacuum, just the thought makes my skin crawl

anyway, not that you care about any of that lmao. i'm sure your extent of interacting with me was seeing some post that made you mad, clicking on my blog to see if i was crazy racist or something, reading my pinned message, and getting mad that i said i want to learn arabic because that didn't fit your imagination of what a jew zionist would do. are we sure i'm the narrow minded one here?