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This the year was

1999

God, how many years ago is that?

24 years ago

24 years ago, 1999. I was in Queens, New York. I was in

Second year of third year of college and

There was an announcement that there's going to be an Arabic class in my neighborhood by Dr.

DeSemi, which I decided to take after having spent Ramadan with him. It was going to be a three-week crash course six days a week

Three nights a three hours every night

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. every night

For three weeks only Sunday off

Okay, I used to work in the city

Flushing is all the way in Queens. It would take I would have to take the

F train to the seven train to a bus

To get to it would be an hour and 15 minutes every day for me to get there under good circumstances train delays bus delays

You know how that works in New York. Anyway, so I would finish college. I would finish work

I would get on the train I'd get to the class and be got started at the time. I knew how to read some Quran. I knew zero Arabic zero

And at the end of the first week our teacher was done our doctor teacher Dr.

Dr. DeSemi was done teaching us the four properties of the ism and he was done teaching us some things about Moldaf Moldafileh

Jarmajrur and

Nouns and adjectives. Okay, I'll give you the Arabic words for them to the noun is called Mosouf

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