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Hepta: The Movie Trailer – part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 22, 2021
Welcome to a new post 🙂 In the last post, we started learning about a romantic movie Hepta هيبتا. We then studied the lyrics of the movie’s theme song. This week, we’re going to look at the 2-minute long trailer of the movie المقطع الترويجي للفيلم and learn what is actually being said (The Arabic variety…
Hepta: the seven stages of love Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 15, 2021
Salaam Arabic learners السلام عليكم يا متعلّمي اللغة العربية 🙂 Yesterday – the 14th. Feb – was Valentines Day عيد الحب. This reminded me of a romantic Egyptian movie فيلم مصري رومانسي titled بعنوان: Hebta: the final lecture هيبتا: المحاضرة الأخيرة. In this post, we’re going to learn the lyrics of the theme song of…
Learn about Minimalism – in Arabic (3) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 12, 2021
Welcome to the third and final part of this post – a listening/comprehension piece on the topic of minimalism التبسيط. In the last two parts of this post: here (1) & here (2), we had two audio clips to listen to and two exercises to work on. In this post, we will continue learning about…
Learn about Minimalism – in Arabic (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 8, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this post: an advanced listening piece on the topic of Minimalism موضوع التبسيط. Last week, we started studying a short audio clip, in Standard Arabic, and listed some of the keywords related to the topic. There was one matching exercise to work on. In this post, there is another…
Learn about Minimalism – in Arabic (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 5, 2021
This is a three-part post, an advanced listening piece, based on a short audio clip I recorded about the concept of Minimalism مفهوم التبسيط أو التخفّف. The audio clip (two parts) is in Standard Arabic العربية الفصحى. Today’s post is focused on the key words appearing in the audio clip, in addition to one exercise…
Try once more حاول مرة أخرى Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 29, 2021
Welcome to a new post. Today, I have a very cheerful song أغنية مبهجة جدًا for you. It’s in Standard Arabic and its release date is very timely تاريخ إصدارها مناسب جدًا. The song is about keeping trying الاستمرار في المحاولة and not giving up عدم الاستسلام . By the end of January, many of…
Role of Libyan women during the pandemic (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 22, 2021
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post where we’re looking at the role of Libyan women مشاركة المرأة الليبية in the country’s fight against Coronavirus في محاربة البلد لفيروس كورونا . The language material we’re looking at is a short report (produced by BBC Arabic) where a lady called Sanna, who speak Libyan…