Archive for March, 2020
Learn about IWD يوم المرأة العالمي Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 9, 2020
Yesterday, the world celebrated the International Women’s Day (IWD) اليوم العالمي للمرأة , which is an annual event حدث سنوي that takes place on the 8th. March every year. Today, we’re going to learn some facts about this day, the reasons behind it and how it became an annual celebration احتفال سنوي . To do…
Relative pronouns in Spoken Arabic, 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 6, 2020
In the first part of this post, we started discussing s subtle aspect of Arabic grammar, and that is that of relative pronouns ضمائر الوصل. To recap, a relative pronoun is a pronoun that follows a noun in order to elaborate on it and add extra information about it. In the second part of the…
Letter of the Week (ج) jeem Posted by yasmine on Mar 4, 2020
Moving on to our second letter of the Arabic alphabet (ج), we will look at various words and phrases beginning with (ج) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter ج. Initial جـ, as in the word “جِسْر” meaning “bridge”. Medial ـجـ , as in the…