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Dom I just did not like the statement and I know you know better. It was more fun to yank your chain. I speak excellent timonium maryland arabic. Ok it is a mixture of mainly modern arabic mixed with various north african dialects and some berber mixed in better in the souq than any where else. I took 3 years of modern arabic at night school college when I was in my early 40's and picked up some in various north african countries. People from the Saudi pennisuala cringe when they hear me. My spoken french is so bad that most moroccans beg me to speak arabic so I do not assault their ears. If it spoken french I must have my wife speak for me, but I translate what they say so my wife can respond. In all seriousness it depends on the city and social strata what language the local population are most comfortable with. I had a long email conversation with a gentlman in tiznet in his horrible french for months untill he finally told me his written german was much better. I was ready to kill him sitting for a 1/2 hr or more trying to puzzle out his poorly written french with my poor understanding of the language. I understand a lot more than I can speak of most languages. I am much better with male voices then female differnt inflections to me. The moroccans get picked on a lot like the american hillbillys alot so I tend to defend them the local berbers have shown me more courtesy than any other people I have met. That is a general statement maybe I have just meet good people in this particular country.