I just wanted to clear up another point. You (rather tongue in cheek) said to me:
"but.... all your vocabulary deal with maid talk lol were u planning to have an Arabic maid ?"
Actually, I remembered later that we DID in fact have an Arabic speaking cleaner when we lived in Jeddah, which was where I took the spoken language course. She was from Eritrea and her full time job was as a maid at the French Embassy, however she used to come to us once a week to clean the villa.
She was able to understand my limited Arabic and it was fun being able to communicate with her and practice my new found language on her! :D
There were 25 sections to the course and although you laugh about it, it was quite comprehensive. It was also set up by Saudia for their managing employees and wives and they probably DID have maids!
I just wanted to clear up another point. You (rather tongue in cheek) said to me:
"but.... all your vocabulary deal with maid talk lol were u planning to have an Arabic maid ?"
Actually, I remembered later that we DID in fact have an Arabic speaking cleaner when we lived in Jeddah, which was where I took the spoken language course. She was from Eritrea and her full time job was as a maid at the French Embassy, however she used to come to us once a week to clean the villa.
She was able to understand my limited Arabic and it was fun being able to communicate with her and practice my new found language on her! :D
There were 25 sections to the course and although you laugh about it, it was quite comprehensive. It was also set up by Saudia for their managing employees and wives and they probably DID have maids!