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Watertown Student a Winner in the National ‘I Speak Arabic’ Contest

By Guest Writer | April 21, 2016

It was no easy assignment to complete – or language to learn – but after more than 90 online video submissions, and over 55,000 votes tallied, three American students have been named as winners of Qatar Foundation International’s (QFI) I Speak Arabic web contest, including one from Watertown! Qatar Foundation International sent out the following information:

Anderson Wang, from Roseland, New Jersey, and current student at New York University, who submitted a video expressing his love for the Arabic language and his excitement to study Arabic at NYU Abu Dhabi, won QFI’s grand prize, receiving a $500 award and QFI “I Speak Arabic” memorabilia. Teacher Georges Chahwan’s Arabic language students from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, and Sana Rafiq from Watertown, Massachusetts, also received second and third place prizes. In celebration of the diversity of languages across the globe, QFI announced the winners on April 16, World Languages Day. Maggie Mitchell Salem, QFI’s Executive Director said:

“We have been absolutely thrilled with the level of interest and number of submissions that we received since launching the I Speak Arabic web contest in December.

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