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Family Members: Tube Series and Baby Brother

family members: For girls like Fatima, freedom in Canada is the option to become something that may have been out of reach before, according to National Observer. In the span of just eight months, she become fluent in English by studying with the help of the You Tube series "Learn English With Eman," in which a Muslim woman posts weekly videos teaching students how to greet people, talk about their jobs, and identify family members. Her father, Bassam, holds her baby brother and fields my questions. Although it been five years since she seen the conflict in Syria, she glad that her family found safety in Canada. Things are generally going well at school, she says. Her brother Yousef, she says, was so fearful of the aerial bombings in their home city of Daraa that he changed his sleeping habits to start dozing off at noon, so that he'd be unconscious while the attacks were happening. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.