Hassan Blasim - All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to st

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

- Hassan Blasim

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topic: Mother, Running, Children, Mother Tongue, Foreign Language, Arab World