Pardon My French: Shared languages can open up a whole new world

In this series of columns, one-time Alliance Quebec president and media personality Royal Orr reflects on his relationship with his second language.
It was a hot, gritty day in Nazareth.
My cameraman and I were trudging away from a shouting, shoving match between Arab Christians and Muslims in the dusty street between the Church of the Annunciation and the proposed site of a new mosque. It was well over 30 C, and the sun was searing.
Sweaty and covered in grime, we were slogging up a narrow stre