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World Service,3 mins

If you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too

Boston Calling

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Like many Texans, Joy Diaz is bilingual— she speaks Spanish and English. But after meeting her daughter’s Arabic-speaking teacher, she realised she actually knows a little bit of that language, too. Image: Rihab Massif teaches at a preschool in the Texas city of Austin. Her mother tongue is Arabic. Credit: Filipa Rodrigues

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