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Eid Mubarak Posted by aziza on Oct 26, 2012
Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك)! Todays is Eid ul Adha (عيد الأضحى), or the feast of sacrifice. Muslims celebrate this feast by slaughtering a sheep. The aim of this is to remember the story of Prophet Abraham (إبراهيم) who was willing to slaughter his own son in submission to God’s orders, but then God sent him…
practice the dual – answers Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In this post, I present the answers of the exercises presented earlier to practice the dual, as well as the translation of the sentences. Change the underlined words in these sentences into dual and make the necessary changes: 1. هذا هو الولد الذي يلعب مع أخي هذان هما الولدان اللذان يلعبان مع أخي This is…
practice the dual Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In Arabic, dual forms can be very confusing to speakers of English who learn Arabic as a foreign language. This is basically because there is no dual in English, and it is very easy to miss dual in Arabic sentences. In this post, I aim to give you a chance to practice different dual forms…
Listening Comprehension exercise in Arabic – answers Posted by aziza on Oct 19, 2012
In this post, I present the transcription of the news item and the answers of the questions presented in the previous post. Transcription تبدأ اليوم مناورات عسكرية هي الأكبر في منطقة الخليج تهدف إلى إزالة الألغام والمتفجرات من مياه المحيط في البحر الأحمر، الخليج العربي، خليج عدن وخليج عُمان. المناورات تقودها الولايات المتحدة وتشارك فيها…
Listening comprehension exercise in Arabic Posted by aziza on Oct 19, 2012
Listen to the news item below and answer the questions that follow: Use the following words to aid your understanding: مناورات = maneuvers عسكرية = military إزالة = removal الألغام = mines المتفجرات = explosives تقود = lead البحرية الأمريكية = US marines تهديد = threat ضمان = ensure حرية = freedom الملاحة = navigation…
Fish soup Posted by aziza on Oct 15, 2012
Do you like fish (السمك)? Have you ever tried fish soup (شوربة السمك)? There are many different ways of preparing this dish, but I will give you the recipe used in my home city Alexandria (الاسكندرية). For fish soup, you will need one whole big fish. It has to be fresh and clean, i.e…
Arabic Nouns of Place Posted by aziza on Oct 14, 2012
ظرف المكان is a special category of nouns in Arabic used in a sentence to denote place. It is a special type of noun in Arabic, but it can be understood as an adverbial of place, as it gives the place in which a certain action takes place. It is the word that answers the…