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#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Did You Learn Arabic in Middle East?

i spent a little bit of time in jordan and a few other places. In preparation for going, i came to realize that not all arabic is one. I went to a restaurant and i said, ati tabuna, which in tenesia means, could i have some bread? And the waiter and the waitstaff burst out laughing. Turned out that the tenesian word for bread was a very derogatory term for a part of the female anatom. Well, you go to morocco, don't say the word tobuna scunelike. That's so cool.

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