Archive for December, 2021
Test Your Knowledge with Fun Arabic Exercises 2 Posted by yasmine on Dec 29, 2021
Welcome back to this series of posts where we’re doing some fun Arabic language exercises. (Please have with you a ورقة paper and قلم pen/pencil.) In this week’s post, we’ll practice our reading comprehension. We’ll read an email from أميرة to her sister زين and then choose the correct words to complete the sentences below…
Comprehension: Egyptian lady living in a caravan (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 27, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. Last week, we started studying a short clip in Egyptian Arabic. The clip is about a female engineer مهندسة مصرية who decided to live in a caravan. In today’s post, I provide you with the correct answers to the questions you were given in the previous…
Christmas song أغنية عيد الميلاد: “Knock on their doors” Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to one of my last blog posts for this year 2021 مرحبًا بكم في واحدة من آخر تدويناتي في هذا العام ٢٠٢١. Christmas is here جاء عيد الميلاد! Merry Christmas to all عيد ميلاد مجيد للجميع In Arabic, the phrase عيد الميلاد (with the definite milad> al-milaad الميلاد) means: The birth day and is…
Test Your Knowledge-Fun Arabic Exercises Posted by yasmine on Dec 22, 2021
In the coming series of posts, we’ll be doing some fun Arabic language exercises. (Please have with you a ورقة paper and قلم pen/pencil) In this week’s post, we’ll practice our knowledge of Arab countries and their capital cities, describing their locations, nationalities and lastly, basic vocabulary through a short fill in the blank exercise…
Comprehension: Egyptian lady living in a caravan (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 20, 2021
Welcome to a new post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة. The topic today is based on a short clip in Egyptian Arabic, produced by BBC Arabic بي بي سي العربية. The aim is to understand the gist of the clip by focusing on the main vocabulary used as well as some simple comprehension exercises. This…
Desserts With No Sugar حلويات بدون سكر Posted by yasmine on Dec 15, 2021
In last week’s post, we talked about قطع السكر cutting sugar and its health benefits. In this post, we have a dessert recipe بدون سكر. I found it on the Al-Jazeera website موقع الجزيرة by a Lebanese nutritionist اختصاصية تغذية and mother أم named علا أبو شقرا Ola Abu Shakra. كيك الموز ودبس التفاح🍌🍎 I…
Song: And my eyes are wide awake وعيوني سهارى Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 13, 2021
Today’s post is about a song from Libyan Folklore. It’s called وَعْيُوني سَهًارى, which means ‘And my eyes are wide awake’. The version of the song we’re studying today is a ‘modernised’ version نُسْخَة حَدِيثَة of the older version of the song, which was performed by a Libyan singer, called Salaam Qadri سلام قدري. The…