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Grocery Shopping in Arabic Part One Posted by yasmine on Dec 23, 2020
In this post, we’ll be looking at a conversation between Sameera who is doing her weekly shopping التسوق and the grocer who will help Sameera with her list of groceries. But before we get into that, I thought we could look at the five food groups المَجموعات الغِذائية or مجموعات الطعام in Arabic and learn…
Environmental Wonders عجائب بيئية of Coronavirus Part Two Posted by yasmine on Dec 16, 2020
In last week’s post, we learned some new Arabic vocabulary surrounding the topic of “environment” البيْئة. We watched the first segment of a clip from Al-Jazeera talking about some of the environmental wonders caused by coronavirus فيروس كورونا in that due to people being quarantined في الحَجر الصِحي and the closing of factories المَصانِع, air…
Environmental Wonders عجائب بيئية of Coronavirus Part One Posted by yasmine on Dec 9, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn some new Arabic vocabulary surrounding the topic of “environment” البيْئة. For context, we’ll watch a clip from Al-Jazeera talking about some of the environmental wonders caused by coronavirus فيروس كورونا in that due to people being quarantined الحَجر الصِحي and the closing of factories المَصانِع, air pollution تَلَوُّث…
Forming Questions in MSA and Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Dec 2, 2020
Questions الأسْئِلة are straightforward in Arabic. There is no special form of the verb used with questions. In this post, we’ll look at the way to form questions in Arabic in both MSA اللُغة العَرَبية الفُصحى and Levantine اللَّهْجَةُ الشَّامِيَّة using the appropriate question words. I have provided examples for practice and audio to help…
Prepositions of Place in Arabic Posted by yasmine on Nov 25, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn some of the most common preposition words used to describe the position of something in Arabic, along with example sentences with audio to help with pronunciation. Before we begin, can you pick something you see and try describing its position in Arabic? How many prepositions in Arabic do…
King Hussein of Jordan Posted by yasmine on Nov 18, 2020
If you have visited Jordan or know a bit about its تاريخ history, surely you know of المَلِك حُسَين بِن طَلال King Hussein bin Talal. His pictures still hang in البيوت homes, المَدارِس schools, المَباني الحكومية government buildings, القاعات العامة public halls and even المَطاعِم restaurants. الشعب الأردني The Jordanian people like to be reminded…
Arabic Vocabulary Surrounding Mobile Phones Posted by yasmine on Nov 11, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn the Arabic vocabulary used to talk about الهَواتِف المَحمولة mobile phones. For example, making calls, texting, getting a phone plan, etc. You’ll find that some Arabic speakers refer to many such vocabulary words in English as well as in Arabic similar to the case of many other technological…