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But there were some complications to the ruse. Miriam knows Arabic and would often stop to talk to other Arabic-speaking patrons. Beth does not and would often have to fudge her way through conversations with her sister's acquaintances.
"I learned one phrase in Arabic that I could use: I have no time right now," she says, laughing, "so I could get out of talking to them."
"I had to stop speaking Arabic because it would incriminate Beth," Miriam says.
"We share a culture. There's just a different religion," Miriam says. She became interested in the subject after spending a summer during high school learning Arabic in a Jewish-Arabic village in Israel.
Sollors said that over the last 30 years, there has been decreased enrollment in several foreign European languages, with the exception of Spanish. Instead, he said students have grown more interested in studyingKorean, Arabic and Yiddish.