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It’s spring time! Posted by aziza on Apr 25, 2011
It’s Easter (عيد الفصح) again, and it’s spring (ربيع) again. When I was young, the Egyptian television used to show a movie with a very nice song about spring. The movie is called (أميرة حبي أنا), and the famous song about spring is called (الدنيا ربيع). It is a very cheerful and lovely song. The…
More words in combination or not? Posted by aziza on Apr 22, 2011
I got an interesting question from Juan about the word (لمّا) which means ‘when’, and he asked whether it involves a combination of (ما) with another word, the answer is ‘possibly’! I do not know for sure because I do not know the etymology, i.e. origin of the word, but it is likely for a…
Arabic Prepositions in combination (Part 2) Posted by aziza on Apr 18, 2011
In my pervious post I presented some combinations of prepositions with question words, i.e. ممَّ، فيمَ، عمَّ At the end of the post, I presented a question about two other combinations. علام، إلام علام = على + ما / ماذا = on what إلام = إلى + ما / ماذا = to what علام تضحك؟…
Arabic Prepositions in Combination Posted by aziza on Apr 17, 2011
Have you ever come across these words before? عمّ، فيمَ، مِمَّ These are question words involving both a preposition and the question word. عمّ = عن + ما / ماذا = about what عمّ تتكلم؟ What are you talking about? فيمَ = في + ما / ماذا = in what فيمَ تفكر؟ What are you…
Listening Comprehension in Arabic 2 Posted by aziza on Apr 5, 2011
Please watch the following video, and answer the questions below, using the useful vocabulary given: 1- Who did the Syrian president meet? 2- What was the meeting about? 3- What is the name of the Syrian president? 4- What did the guest deliver to the Syrian president? 5- Why such meeting is considered rare in…
Word search – jewelery answer Posted by aziza on Mar 31, 2011
In this post, I give the answer of the word search game presented in my previous post, I also present another activity below: Here is the activity, look through your jewellery box and try to name them in Arabic and try to describe them as much as you can e.g. هذا خاتم جميل من الذهب…
Word search – jewelry Posted by aziza on Mar 29, 2011
Have you learned any of the vocabulary related to jewelry items I presented earlier? Here is a chance to revise them and take a challenge to try and find the words in the word search game below: Jewel = جوهرة Ring = خاتم Bracelet = سوار Anklet = خلخال Chain = سلسلة Earrings =…