Archive for 'Arabic Language'
Coronavirus Vaccine (1) لقاح فيروس كورونا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 10, 2020
A few days ago, the UK’s prime minister وزير خارجية المملكة المتحدة announced أعلن that the UK has authorised أن المملكة المتحدة قد وافقت على the use of the COVID-19 vaccine: Pfizer استخدام لقاح فايزر المُضاد لفيروس كورونا. With this news, UK has become أصبحت the first western country أول دولة غربية to approve تُقِرّ…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (2) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 4, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. We’re still focusing on temporal adverbs. You can catch up and read the previous post – the first part – by clicking here. In the last post, we started learning about adverbs in Arabic and started focusing on the first type, which is temporal adverbs ظروف…
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…
Temporal adverbs in Arabic (1) ظرف الزمان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 1, 2020
Hello dear Arabic learners! Welcome to a new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة 🙂 Today, we’re going to be learning about a specific grammatical feature, and that is: adverbs الظروف in Standard Arabic. This week, we’ll start with the temporal adverb ْظَرْفْ الزَّمَان (in two parts) and the two blog posts after will…
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…
“It seems that I’ve loved you” – Levantine Arabic song Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 23, 2020
The year 2020 hasn’t been a great one to many people so far, but good songs can certainly help! The song that brightened my days أضاءت أيامي throughout October خلال شهر أكتوبر this year is “shakli Habbet-il” شكلي حبّيتك by the Syrian singer المغنّي السوري Hamada Nashawaty حمادة نشواتي . In this post, we will…
Preparations for a 2nd lockdown in England (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 13, 2020
Welcome to new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة 🙂 This is the second part of a blog post where we’re still looking at an article that addresses the way people in England prepared for the recent lockdown there. In the previous post, we started learning about the language used in the article and…