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Coronavirus Vaccine (1) لقاح فيروس كورونا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 10, 2020
A few days ago, the UK’s prime minister وزير خارجية المملكة المتحدة announced أعلن that the UK has authorised أن المملكة المتحدة قد وافقت على the use of the COVID-19 vaccine: Pfizer استخدام لقاح فايزر المُضاد لفيروس كورونا. With this news, UK has become أصبحت the first western country أول دولة غربية to approve تُقِرّ…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (2) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 4, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. We’re still focusing on temporal adverbs. You can catch up and read the previous post – the first part – by clicking here. In the last post, we started learning about adverbs in Arabic and started focusing on the first type, which is temporal adverbs ظروف…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (1) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 1, 2020
Hello dear Arabic learners! Welcome to a new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة 🙂 Today, we’re going to be learning about a specific grammatical feature, and that is: adverbs الظروف in Standard Arabic. This week, we’ll start with the temporal adverb ْظَرْفْ الزَّمَان (in two parts) and the two blog posts after will…
“It seems that I’ve loved you” – Levantine Arabic song Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 23, 2020
The year 2020 hasn’t been a great one to many people so far, but good songs can certainly help! The song that brightened my days أضاءت أيامي throughout October خلال شهر أكتوبر this year is “shakli Habbet-il” شكلي حبّيتك by the Syrian singer المغنّي السوري Hamada Nashawaty حمادة نشواتي . In this post, we will…
Preparations for a 2nd lockdown in England (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 13, 2020
Welcome to new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة 🙂 This is the second part of a blog post where we’re still looking at an article that addresses the way people in England prepared for the recent lockdown there. In the previous post, we started learning about the language used in the article and…
Preparations for a 2nd lockdown in England (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 9, 2020
Last Thursday يوم الخميس الماضي, England entered دخلت إنجلترا another national lockdown إغلاقًا عامًا آخر. The lockdown is partial جزئي as schools فالمدارس and universities والجامعات are still open لازالت مفتوحة. However, non-essential shops المتاجر التي تبيع سلع غير أساسية are not. Because of this, people made sure that حرص الناس على they went shopping…
Enquiring about Age أسئلة عن العُمْر Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 5, 2020
In this blog post, I’m going to introduce you to another set of basic phrases that are related to age عبارات ذات صلة بالعمر and few lines you can use to enquire about someone’s age للسؤال عن عمر أحد ما . To introduce you to phrases related to age, I’m going to use another short…