So, how does the US gets its grunts ready for BombsOverBaghdad? Give ’em a learning tutorial leveraged off the Unreal gaming engine..

Tactical Iraqi – Iraqi Arabic Made Easy

Tactical IraqiTM is a computer-based, self-paced, learning program that in about 80 hours teaches English-speaking people totally unfamiliar with Iraqi Arabic how to speak enough to accomplish tasks and missions in Arabic.

Tactical Iraqi is ideal for military and civilian personnel who must rapidly train to accomplish missions that involve interacting with Iraqis but who are not linguists, don’t already speak Arabic and don’t have time to

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