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Juha, His Son and the Donkey جحا وابنه والحمار Posted by yasmine on Feb 23, 2022
In every culture, certain characters شخصيات emerge over time with their own way of teaching us life lessons دروس الحياة. Juha جُحا is one of those characters who’s tales حكايات have been around for centuries قرون beginning from the seventh century. He is what you call a wise old fool عجوز أحمق حكيم. This foolishness…
The Enduring Art of Traditional Palestinian Tiles Part Two Posted by yasmine on Feb 16, 2022
Welcome back to part two of this post about the struggle in trying to preserve الحفاظ على a part of Palestinian heritage تراث فلسطيني which is that of making traditional decorative tiles البلاط التقليدي المزخرف. You will hear the reporter speaking in لغة عربية فصحى and the men who work with these tiles speak Palestinian…
The Enduring Art of Traditional Palestinian Tiles Part One Posted by yasmine on Feb 9, 2022
In this post, we’ll watch and listen to a clip about the Palestinian heritage of making colored ملون and decorative مُزَخرَف tiles بلاط. A trade that is finding difficulty in staying alive in an area under occupation الإحتلال amidst an unstable market. You will hear the reporter speaking in لغة عربية فصحى and the men…
الوداع Saying Goodbye in Arabic Posted by yasmine on Feb 2, 2022
In this post, we’ll look at the most common ways to say goodbye in Modern Standard Arabic as well as in Levantine Arabic. ✨If you were to part with someone and wanted to say goodbye in Arabic, which phrase comes to mind? How many ways to say goodbye do you know? Would you know which…
Backgammon Part Two لعبة الطاولة Posted by yasmine on Jan 26, 2022
ًWelcome back to part two on how to play Backgammon لعبة الطاولة. How common is لعبة الطاولة? Well, I grew up watching my dad and “Jido” جدو (grandpa) playing طاولة while drinking tea in the living room. My aunt عمتي then taught me how to play and I’ve been hooked ever since. هل لعبة الطاولة…
Backgammon Part One لعبة الطاولة Posted by yasmine on Jan 19, 2022
Have you played Backgammon لعبة الطاولة before? If not, in this post, we’ll learn a bit about it’s background history and how to play the game as we pick up some new Arabic vocabulary words. 😉 Backgammon in Arabic is called طاولة meaning “table” or طاولة الزهر since زهر in Arabic means “dice”. ✨Here are…
Test Your Knowledge with Fun Arabic Exercises 4 Posted by yasmine on Jan 12, 2022
Welcome to the last post of this series where we’re doing some fun Arabic language exercises. (Please have with you a ورقة paper and قلم pen/pencil) In this post, we’re going to test our vocabulary memory by playing the (Name 4 of …. in Arabic) game. Yes, think of it as a game; no pressure…