Archive for January, 2022
Backgammon Part Two لعبة الطاولة Posted by yasmine on Jan 26, 2022
ًWelcome back to part two on how to play Backgammon لعبة الطاولة. How common is لعبة الطاولة? Well, I grew up watching my dad and “Jido” جدو (grandpa) playing طاولة while drinking tea in the living room. My aunt عمتي then taught me how to play and I’ve been hooked ever since. هل لعبة الطاولة…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 4 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 24, 2022
Welcome to the final part of this series of blog posts where we’re studying a funny scene in Egyptian Arabic. The short clip is from a very popular TV series that is called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Over the last 3 weeks/ blog posts, we studied the transcript in Arabic (Egyptian & Standard)…
Backgammon Part One لعبة الطاولة Posted by yasmine on Jan 19, 2022
Have you played Backgammon لعبة الطاولة before? If not, in this post, we’ll learn a bit about it’s background history and how to play the game as we pick up some new Arabic vocabulary words. 😉 Backgammon in Arabic is called طاولة meaning “table” or طاولة الزهر since زهر in Arabic means “dice”. ✨Here are…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 3 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 17, 2022
Welcome to the 3rd. part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we followed the transcript (in English) of the scene. This week, we’re following the dialogue in Standard Arabic so you can compare it with…
Test Your Knowledge with Fun Arabic Exercises 4 Posted by yasmine on Jan 12, 2022
Welcome to the last post of this series where we’re doing some fun Arabic language exercises. (Please have with you a ورقة paper and قلم pen/pencil) In this post, we’re going to test our vocabulary memory by playing the (Name 4 of …. in Arabic) game. Yes, think of it as a game; no pressure…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 10, 2022
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we had the transcript (in Egyptian Arabic) of the scene to follow. Today, you will be able to follow the dialogue in English…
Test Your Knowledge with Fun Arabic Exercises 3 Posted by yasmine on Jan 5, 2022
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 the past tense using forms of كان and the future tense using time. We’ll also practice making sentences negative, and finally, the comparative form…