When an 11-year-old boy with social anxiety disorder has to start middle school, he finds strength in a lovable comfort mutt named Dude.Avail. 1/14/20Kipo and the Age of WonderbeastsNETFLIX FAMILY A new stand-up special from Mexican comedian Alex Fernández.Avail. 1/29/20Frères EnnemisNETFLIX FILM A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarok -- unless someone intervenes in time.Let us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out:Netflix Arrivals December 2019 The language is almost always actual Arabic, except for a few rare instances in which I took some creative liberties. I knew from the start that language needed to be a part of it. Arabic is such a beautiful tongue, the rich and sometimes guttural sounds seemingly defined by the harsh atmosphere of the desert and its sweeping nights. It’s also a language made of countless dialects, which I drew upon in constructing the world. But as I was writing, my brain constantly picked at one chord: If the book is set in Arawiya, aren’t the characters already speaking Arawiyan? How could I choose to use English here and Arabic there? To combat this, I introduced a second tongue called Safaitic. It’s Arawiya’s equivalent of Arabic, but it’s an older, obsolete language which allowed me to either define words outright (thanks to dialect differences between characters) or via context. Of course, both tongues—Arawiyan and Safaitic—are Arabic here in the real world, but no one needs to know that!TV