I Showed Maha One Photo and Said Nothing
Intermediate (B1) · Conversations · 18 min · Free
New idea, and I want to know whether it works.
I show Maha one photo. I tell her nothing. She has to work out where it was taken and what is happening in it, with nothing to go on but her own questions.
The photo is from inside a tour bus belonging to Tinariwen. They are Tuareg, from the Sahara, and if you do not know them you should stop reading this and go and listen to them. Their singer is called Saddam.
I met them in America around 2014 or 2015, when I was 21. Ten years later I saw them again in Toronto, and Saddam remembered me. Not my name. The Syrian.
Watching Maha get there from nothing is the whole video. She asks, I answer, she narrows it down, and the Arabic you are hearing is two people genuinely working something out rather than performing a conversation for a camera.
This is the first time we have tried this, so tell us in the comments whether you want more of it. Next time she picks the photo and I have to guess.
