Everything is broken
I am at work early just so I can have few minutes of peace and quiet to write in this blog.
My niece who is almost 3 years old and speaks Arabic in a Palestinian dialect better than my sister and I combined!
When we went to Toronto to pick her mom and my niece up, when she saw me, she said, “MONA!” She still remembers me because it is very easy for her to say my name. My name is one of the easiest to pronounce! 
At home, she cannot sit still. She is always asking “shu hay?” (What is this?) Or “Nroo7 barrah!” (Let’s go outside!) Or “Sukhon!” (Hot item!) Or “Ween XXX?” (Where is xxxx?) Or “Kharbany!!” (It is broken) … then she tries to turn it on (whatever it is) and says, “Zabtet!!” (Fixed!)
So yah.. it seems her parents taught her that everything is broken and that’s why she cannot touch it, because there is no hope to turn it on (toy, anything that moves, or lights.)
Otherwise, everything else is good. My brother just drives me insane, and when I am driving, he won’t shut up and keeps giving me instructions like no tomorrow. I just gave up on him and told him to drive my car and leave me alone. I rather be in the passenger seat instead. Jeez! Why can’t other drivers let someone else drive for them? I do!!
Anyways, I need to now go back to my daily routine of coding and coding, and oh, more coding.
Life of the Rebellious Girl.. all about complaining and coding!! See what happens when we sit behind the computer screen all day?
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nice post. It’s good that ur niece was taught Arabic at her age. It’s sad to see that Arabic as a language is lost even in the Arab world. here in the gulf, families get filipina nannies to teach their children english from a young age instead of Arabic
When I was working in Abood’bi (Abu Dhabi) , our colleague, a philipina designer most of the time she (was in office) use to say the word “SHOO HAADA�.
shoo hada ( I think the meaning is “what is thisâ€)was her favorite word of some Arabic words she knows ..
When some thing goes wrong with computer or design that she was doing, she would say to herself “shoo hadaâ€..that word became a habit for her,coz when she was talking to other pilipine colleagues, she also says shoo hada….
She was an intelligent, talkative and easy going girl, shorter than president AROYO.
MUUNA, by reading this irrelevant comment, don’t say to me Shoo haada?
That is what some would call ‘progress’.
And since ‘progress’ is very Eurocentric, that is what happens.
@Ah
There are some older kids that come to Canada (late tweens early teens) that only been in this country for a year and don’t speak Arabic anymore. They claim they forgot it… ARAB KIDS!!
@myblog
Hardcore Palestinian dialect: EESH HADA!!
@Kamranistan
exactly!!
well it sounds like yr having a good day lol
Ahalan Mona,
This is my first ever post at any Arab site. I was under impression that you speak better Arabic compared to others but was really surprised to learn that your neice speaks better than you guys!
Anyway, speaking the Mother Tongue ‘Unfashionable at Home’ issue isn’t a new problem at all. I’m quite experienced with that during my 15-year career in the United States but now this menace spread across in my country too! Parents think (or fall under the peer pressure) that it’s a fashion to teach their children English at homes at the *expense* of their Mother Tongue. I can’t stand such parents here who try hard to fake up with their kids only to ‘show off’ with all that annoying English accent.
Only continent is still faring better (safeguarding the Mother Tongue) is the Europe – mainly French, German, Spanish, Switzerland and Italian. China too is rapidly changing (English).
I’ve learned a couple of languages other than English but I never forgot my Mother Tongue (even during my stay in the US). Oh BTW, I speak a little broken Arabic too as I’ve been thrice to a country which is always ever associated with the Middle East
Well, if you don’t mind to tell, what programmer are you (daily routine of coding and coding, and oh, more coding)?
Shukran
I am fluent in Arabic. That was an exaggeration. I think other people got it. It means that my niece speaks Arabic really well to the point that it made me surprised that she is surpassing me. That’s it!
If you keep reading my posts or posts from the past you will notice how much I exaggerate for amusement sake.. 
LOL this is actually quite funny. I love your blogs btw, I’m Palestinian too and I blog a lot about Arab society and Islam (http://radicalmadicalboom.blogspot.com/ if you’re interested) but my blogs aren’t as awesome as yours and I can SERIOUSLY relate to what you’re saying.
Keep it up, you’re awesome x
@Diana
Thanks for dropping by!!
@Mona
I stumbled across this website when I was searching for a particular result. I just opened it out of curiosity and saw those articles “Disappointed” and “I am the talk of the town.” Actually, I wanted to leave a comment on them…simply I couldn’t but entered my e-mail to subscribe! Well, am a huge Brazil fan since my teenage student days in 1990 (players such as Dunga, Careca etc have played in that World Cup). Who’s your favorite Brazilian today?
Frankly, I don’t know anything about writing style as am new to this place and am afraid to say that I didn’t had the luxury of going through your previous posts as most of my time flies off in my engagements (am an Employer with 1000 plus head count).
I don’t like poking my nose but the reason why I asked for your Programming (as you were whining…) was I used to work as a researcher for the world’s largest technology and R&D company on this planet; one of my contributions were towards Open Source with C (Linux Kernel), Embedded Systems (ARM & TI) etc. Now as an employer I rely on my resources with a good mix of skills such as C, C++, Python, Java etc (in Life Sciences; Drug Design, Modeling & Simulation).
That’s all for now.
lol and i’m the one who’s never been taught my yemeni dialect it and struggling to learn…. actually i’ve caught onto the masri one and have been learning it ever since lol. But it’s definatly a bummer the fact that theyve “forgotten” their language. Nothing cool about it.. they shouldn’t forget where they come from at the expense of fitting in this society.
@Mona.What kind of softwares do you code?