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As a child, I could speak too different languages but not fluently. My second language Arabic gave me difficulty as a child and I spoke English more for that reason and another reason was that i was in america at the time. In Egypt I spoke more English and for that i was treated as a foreigner and was called differently as well as the i was treated. I was called in American in Egypt a lot because i traveled from america to Egypt and when i went back to america i was called an Egyptian. In Egypt i was asked a lot of questions and struggled a lot with the language as such i had to ask what the words meant to understand what they w'ere saying. Since being from another country and moving back to that country, I have been treated differently , I am treated and called differently no matter what i say or prefer as well as how i look , because i look Egyptian, i am mostly called that but i prefer being called an American and i can't speak Arabic that well and i have always struggled with it in my life in Egypt.

I was born in Orange county in California, after 6 years I moved to Egypt with my Family. In Egypt i was treated differently in school and by many others. In Egypt i was
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Arabic was a hard language for me to learn as a child and i never took classes for it as well. I was the person who always had to ask the question of what that word meant or what to say or how to say it. when i was young , my Arabic accent sounded bad so many thought i was a foreigner but as i grew older i became better at speaking it and understanding it as well. I started to become the guy that translated Arabic to English when i was older and helped translate for a lot of people in America who can't speak it but because of this , i got into some problems when people in Arabic are starting a fight in Arabic and cant translate and ask me to translate for them since they asked if i could translate for

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