Sunday, January 10, 2010

Robert Satloff's Comedy Hour on Hurra TV

An American student in Middle East studies sent me this (on Jan. 9th episode): "OH MY GOD - I just listened to the opening line of Satloff's January 10 episode. Oh my god. I am cracking up. This sounds like my first year of Arabic classes - or actually it sounds worse. He can't pronounce the ق غ ع خ ح - anything! Or oddly enough, he will say the letters but in the wrong place, i.e. at one point in the intro, instead of saying فهم he says فحم. Why on earth do they even let this guy do this? Why not just do it all in English? I can't believe they take themselves so seriously producing something like this."