Monday, January 31, 2011

Awareness of languages

I took this photo in Jerusalem, Israel. The allows indicate Damascus Gate and Roman Plaza are over there. The signs are written in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. English can be written and read from left to right, but Hebrew and Arabic can be written and read from right to left. I could read only English letters in Israel, but one of my taxi drivers said that he could read all of them. I must admit that I tried to learn some Hebrew before my trip to Israel, but I just gave up because of the way to write and read from right to left. That's quite confusing to me.

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