We needed people to go see the Colored Canyon with us, so Robert told me to go talk some Japanese people into going. I spoke to them in English and we had a very difficult conversation when I heard some of them speaking Arabic. I asked one of them if he spoke Arabic, and it turned out that these "Japanese" people were Indonesians. The language barrier was gone in two seconds.
Then Robert starts talking to four Russian girls. One speaks broken English so she translates what we're saying to her friends, and the translation each way is garbled. It's another very difficult conversation, until Robert slipped and said an Arabic word and they giggled. I asked them if they spoke Arabic, and suddenly the language barrier was gone again for all of us.
Tourists that speak Arabic? What's up with that?
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Who doesn't speak Arabic?
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