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Status of cats in ancient Egypt: Answers Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 21, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post about the status of cats in ancient Egypt مكانة القطط في مصر القديمة. This blog post is a comprehension test that is based on a short video clip in the Egyptian Arabic. Last week, you had a chance to watch the clip and work on some…
Status of cats in ancient Egypt: Questions Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 14, 2020
Welcome to this advanced comprehension piece where you are going to watch a clip about the importance of cats أهمية القطط and their status مكانتهم in ancient Egypt مصر القديمة and the role cats played الدور الذي لعبته القطط in Egyptians’ everyday life الحياة اليومية then. The Arabic variety used here is mainly Egyptian Arabic, combined…
A new Arabic hit song: لقيت الطبطه Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 11, 2020
Welcome to a new blog – مرحبًا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة 😀. Today, I have a great Arabic song for you to listen to and study. The song is in Egyptian Arabic and it’s called لقيت الطبطبة or “I found love/support”. The song is performed by the iconic Emirati singer: Hussain Al-jassmi حسين الجسمي. As is usually…
Italian words in Libyan Arabic Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 7, 2020
Welcome to another post. Today’s post is of interest to those who are keen to learn spoken Arabic as the focus is Libyan Arabic اللهجة الليبية . As is the case with vernacular Arabic in general, dialects are not 100% Arabic and include many words that are of foreign origin من أصل أجنبي, mainly for…
Lebanon: Immigration Wave (4) موجة هجرة Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 1, 2020
Welcome to the fourth and final part of this post series that focuses on the topic of current migration wave in Lebanon موجة الهجرة الحالية في لبنان, as a result of كنتيجة لِـ the poor conditions in which people are living there الأوضاع السيئة التي يعيشها الناس هناك. In the previous three posts, we have…
Lebanon: Immigration Wave (3) موجة هجرة Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 28, 2020
Welcome to the third part of this post where we’re still learning about the topic of the current wave of migration in Lebanon موجة الهجرة الحالية في لبنان. In the last two posts, we started looking at the language used in the report (short video clip in Lebanese Arabic), in details. In the previous post…
Lebanon: Immigration Wave (2) موجة هجرة Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 24, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this post. It is a listening post that is dedicated to the topic of موضوع the current immigration wave موجة الهجرة الحالية in Lebanon في لبنان. Last week, we started studying the language of a short video clip and looked at a list of key words الكلمات الرئيسية as…