a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/SnRy7UVyQDI/AAAAAAAAABA/nSMgttJb5Bg/s1600-h/valeria.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365039419503034418" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 106px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/SnRy7UVyQDI/AAAAAAAAABA/nSMgttJb5Bg/s200/valeria.jpg" border="0" //abr /divI have decided that in September 2009 I want to start studying basic Arabic, in the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning. I am going to enrol to weekly evening classes for beginners.br /I am aware that Arabic is a very difficult language and I do not expect to become fluent. However, I would love to be able to say and understand at least basic sentences. Learning some Arabic can be very useful for a belly dancer for various reasons:br /Learning Arabic can help non Arabic dancers to understand more about the cultures that the different types of belly dance, raqs sharqi, Oriental dance (or whatever you want to call this art form) originate from.br /It could be interesting to understand a little bit more of the Arabic songs lyrics, which could help interpret better a song when you dance to it. At the moment, the only Arabic word I know is