The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin teaches many languages ​​spoken in the Middle East such as Turkish, Hebrew, and Arabic. Urdu, but Arabic is the most important program. Arabic studies programs are government-funded and attached to many schools in the Middle East, such as in Egypt and Jordan. It offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees as well as professional certifications, but the unique doctoral program offered involves teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. In this department, Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi published the textbook “Al-kitaab”, used “nationally and internationally” for the teaching of Arabic. In one of the top five Arabic teaching programs in the country, as an Arabic speaker and English learner, I meet Brian and Jim, who are American undergraduates, at the Union Building in least once a week to exchange languages ​​and discover more about others. culture. I found the improvement in their Arabic skills to be remarkable. As a result, I decided to interview them and ask them about their experience. At the start of the interview, Brian explained why he studied Arabic by recounting his experience in the Middle East in the U.S. Army. He discovered that aspects of Arabic were totally different from those of other languages ​​he knew, for example English and German. Language and culture are inseparable, and it is difficult to learn Arabic without understanding the culture; this is why he decided to study Arabic because “you learn two things at once”. However, Jim, who is energetic and fast-talking, did not go to the Arab world, but attended military school for a year and left for personal reasons. While at the Military College, he discovered... in the middle of an article...... a question in the Arabic class, and they agreed that "Languages ​​are a need for individual". He said that if you want to know a language, you will need it to communicate. Otherwise, you won't use it because you will find alternative ways to correspond with others. For Jim, he talked about the situation of one of his colleagues who is also studying Arabic. This man did not make the efforts he should have made to have a solid foundation in Arabic. Jim told him, "If you don't try now!,...you can't plan for the future." » Studying any language takes time and effort. Jim and Brian are a good example of people who study Arabic as a foreign language, although this is unusual in their society because they found motivations to pursue studies in Arabic. We, as learners of English and Arabic, agree that motivation is the main key to mastering a language..