Adorable and Incomprehensible

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I had a brief and adorable interaction with the little girl who lives in the apartment downstairs- besides 'Hello' she seems to speak no English- she speaks Arabic, but I 'm not sure which dialect. So she said Hello, I said hello, she said something I couldn't understand, I said "'arabiyah?" She nodded. Ana laa atakalam al-'arabiyah. She just kept talking. I shook my head. She called for her mother. There was an exchange, and she went back to her apartment. I wish my 2 years of Arabic had done me more good.