<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/132c/qanv0vlare944wbzg.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Jaclyn Rosendahl</strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Entrepreneur<br/><em>About Jaclyn</em> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289408.msg14241614#msg14241614)<br/> ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… giggle as Peter shares his prediction … something I told him earleir so the only question was myh resolve … tehn he speaks of a filet …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “If I was seeking <abbr title="a category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate.">Umami</abbr> Peter, yes the filet would be my choice as well. Umami is a Japanese word, the language we were speaking. Mr. Alotaibi’s third language or perhaps fourth is Japanese.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… turn back to our bartender …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Some time ago, I overheard a group of young people talking. My ears heard English and French and what I believed was Arabic and probably something else, all in the same conversation. I had the opportunity later to speak to one of the young women and asked her whether what I though I heard was indeed four languages. She replied that the fourth language was Berber, they were from Morocco and were refugees from Algeria. She explained that Berber was their milk language, the language at home. Arabic was for mosque, French was for school, and since they were now studying in the US, the English was the names they learned for things American. So is your milk language here also Arabic? Or does the history of this region like North Africa have yet another language that lives today.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… he replies that indeed, the Emirati speak Arabic as their mother tongue, that if there was something before, it’s been forgotten … he also explains that because of the many workers brought to Dubai and the rest of the Emirates from elsewhere, one may hear many languages here but not among the native born …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “<abbr title="Thank you Sir">Shukraan lak, saydi</abbr>. Did I say that properly?”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… he smiles and pronounces it patiently … I try again several times I give up when he judges my pronunciation adequate …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “I learned that this afternoon, Peter. A simple thank you. I find it twists my mind around most wonderfully to learn the simple social phrases. Tomorrow, I’ll correct my pronunciation of Asante, Mheshimiwa. That’s the same ‘thank you sir’ in Swahili. Asante may have to do, the honorific doesn’t flow on my tongue.”</span></span><br/>