Archive for November, 2017
Murder on the Orient Express (2) جريمة في قطار الشرق Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 15, 2017
Welcome to the second part of this post about the Orient Express. Last week, we listened to a report (see video clip below) about the history تاريخ of the actual Orient Express where Christie got her inspiration from in Arabic with a set of questions. This week, we’re looking at the same report again to try…
Basic Sentence Structure in Arabic (II) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Nov 9, 2017
In an earlier post, I focused on one type of Arabic sentences, the verbal sentence الجُمْلَة الفِعْلِيَّة. As its name suggests, it is the sentence that starts with a verb فِعْل. In like manner, the nominal sentence الجُمْلَة الإِسْمِيَّة, our focus in this post, is the sentence that starts with a noun اِسْم. This type…
Murder on the Orient Express (1) جريمة في قطار الشرق Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 8, 2017
Last Friday was the release date of the movie Murder on the Orient Express in UK cinemas. You can find a photo I took when I went to watch the movie on the first day of its release – the 3rd of November. This film adaptation التبنّي السينمائي is based on مقتبس عن Murder on the…
5 Common Prepositions in Arabic Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Nov 3, 2017
In learning another language, one good thing about prepositions is that they are limited, i.e. belong to a closed class of words, just like pronouns. Besides, in the case of Arabic, they are simple when conjugating them with pronouns (i.e. appending pronouns to them). There are seventeen prepositions in Arabic. Here, we look at the…
Comprehension task: Grenfell Tower Fire Victims (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 1, 2017
Welcome back to the second part of this blog post where we are focusing on a compression task, based on a news article produced by BBC Arabic: http://www.bbc.com/arabic/40295645 As you can see in the link above, or remember from last week, the news article is related to the incident of Grenfell tower in London. This…