But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

