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Role of Libyan women during the pandemic (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 18, 2021
Welcome to a new post مرحبا بكم في تدوينة جديدة 🙂 Today, in this 2- part post, we have a short video to study, produced by BBC Arabic. It’s about the participation of Libyan women مشاركة المرأة الليبية in the country’s fight against Coronavirus في محاربة البلد لفيروس كورونا . The language used in the…
Adverbs of space (2) ظرف المكان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 11, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. We’re still focusing on spatial adverbs. You can catch up and read the previous post (part one) that I published before the new year, by clicking here. So, in the last post, we learnt that a spatial adverb is a word that refers to the…
Adverbs of space (1) ظرف المكان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 8, 2021
Salam سلام 🙂 We’re going to continue our series about adverbs الظُروف in Standard Arabic. Last month, two posts were dedicated to adverbs: the temporal adverb ظرف الزمان (Click here and here). Today (and in the next blog), we’re going to look at the other popular type of adverb, and that is: Spatial adverb ظرف المكان. To…
The King’s new song: “Bab El-gamal” Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 4, 2021
Happy New year سنة جديدة وسعيدة عليكم 🙂 Just 2 days before 2020 ended, the Legendary Egyptian singer المغنّي الأسطورة المصري Mohamed Mounir محمد منير (or The King المَلِكْ as he’s often called), released أطلق the first song الأغنية الأولى from his new album “Bab El Gamal” باب الجمال. The song is full of مليئة بـ…
Merry Christmas, from Fairuz – ليلة عيد Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 24, 2020
Welcome to this blog post مرحبًا بكم في هذه التدوينة. Christmas is here! Merry Christmas to all عيد ميلاد مجيد للجميع. 🎅🎅🎅 Today, I’d like to introduce you to the Arabic version of النسخة العربية من Jingle Bell song أغنية أجراس الميلاد that is performed by Fairuz فيروز – the iconic Lebanese singer. The song is called…
World Arabic Language Day Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 21, 2020
Last Friday يوم الجمعة الماضية, the 18th. Dec. 2020, was the world Arabic language day اليوم العالمي للغة العربية. In 2012, UNESCO -منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة – decided to dedicate قررت أن تُخصّص this day هذا اليوم to celebrate the Arabic language للاحتفال باللغة العربية , its diversity وتنوّعها and legacy وإرثها…
Coronavirus Vaccine (2) لقاح فيروس كورونا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 14, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. In the first part of this blog (click here to check), we started looking at an article that announces the news of Covid-19 vaccine اللُّقاح المضاد لفيروس كورونا that has been approved الذي تمت الموافقة عليه by the UK من قِبل المملكة المتحدة . While we…