Archive for 'Idioms'
Hamza Namira: “Free for a bit?” فاضي شويّة؟ Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 31, 2022
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending a live performance by the Egyptian artist Hamza Namira in London حضور أداء موسيقي حيّ للفنّان المصري حمزة نمرة في لندن. It was a lovely night that it made me want to share one of his hit songs titled: ‘Fadhy Shwayya‘ – ‘Free for a bit?‘…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 3, 2022
Today’s post is a listening practice, based on a short clip from a very popular TV series that was screened in 2017 on CBC Drama. The series is called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. The show focuses on the day-to-day details of the lives of seven different neighbours who live in the same apartment…
Arabic proverbs about Cats! Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 9, 2021
Welcome to a new post مرحبا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة! Yesterday was the National Cat Day يوم القطط العالمي . On this occasion, and due to that fact that I’m a big cat fan ;), I dedicate today’s blog post to talk about some popular Arabic proverbs (in Standard & Vernacular Arabic) that use cats…
Song: “A piece of my heart” حِتَّه من قلبي Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 2, 2021
Welcome to a new post 🙂 مرحبا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة. I have a new song for you today , a recent one that got released by the great Emirati singer – Hussain El Jassmi. It seems like every summer, he keeps delighting يستمر في إسعاد his audience جمهوره with a new song أغنية/surprise مفاجأة (You can…
Arabic Song about keeping dignity (3) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jun 11, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this log post series where we talk about common expressions around the concept of dignity الكرامة, in Arabic. Please refer back to the first and second part of this blog post to read more about the concept in Arabic and some of the common vernacular proverbs that Arab speaking…
Arabic expressions about keeping dignity (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jun 4, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post where we’re still talking about the concept of dignity مفهوم الكرامة in Arabic, and learning some vocabulary around it. In the last blog post, we started learning about the word dignity itself and how it used in Arabic. We then studied a set of 3 proverbs…
Arabic expressions about keeping dignity (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 28, 2021
In today’s post, I would like to focus on the concept of dignity الكرامة in Arabic and how it’s talked about in the Arabic-speaking world. This 3-part post will look at a number of proverbs and everyday expressions/phrases that are used in spoken Arabic. In the first two parts, the focus will be several proverbs…