The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

As a long-term resident of Abu Dhabi, it only took me a few months to recognise that terms of endearment in the Arabic language are frequently used here in both personal and professional circles.

But we have borrowed words from many other languages, some of which we may not suspect. Arabic is one of them. We usually say we “borrow” foreign words, or that certain words are “loan-words,” but ...