Archive for 'Arabic Language'
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…
Preparations for a 2nd lockdown in England (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 9, 2020
Last Thursday يوم الخميس الماضي, England entered دخلت إنجلترا another national lockdown إغلاقًا عامًا آخر. The lockdown is partial جزئي as schools فالمدارس and universities والجامعات are still open لازالت مفتوحة. However, non-essential shops المتاجر التي تبيع سلع غير أساسية are not. Because of this, people made sure that حرص الناس على they went shopping…
Enquiring about Age أسئلة عن العُمْر Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 5, 2020
In this blog post, I’m going to introduce you to another set of basic phrases that are related to age عبارات ذات صلة بالعمر and few lines you can use to enquire about someone’s age للسؤال عن عمر أحد ما . To introduce you to phrases related to age, I’m going to use another short…
Introduce yourself in Modern Standard Arabic Posted by yasmine on Nov 4, 2020
How well can you introduce yourself in Arabic? If I were to ask you to tell me a bit about yourself in Arabic, what would you include in your introduction? How would you phrase your sentences? In this post, I thought we’d look at a couple of example introductions with audio of hypothetical people to…
Being an Arab vegan (نباتي عربي (2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 30, 2020
Welcome Back to the second part of this blog post. Last time, we started learning the content of an interview about the topic of veganism النباتية الصرفة In the first part of the post, I gave you a list of questions to try to answer after listening to the interview. In this second part of…
Let’s Tell Time in MSA and Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Oct 28, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn how to ask and tell the time in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic. Of course, you will hear time being said in MSA with speaking clocks, the official radio and television announcements. Otherwise, you will hear time being told in colloquial Arabic. It’s good to be…
Being an Arab vegan (نباتي عربي (1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 23, 2020
Today, I have a video clip for you about an interesting topic, and that is veganism النباتية الصرفة . The clip is an interview مقابلة with a Saudi vlogger – Raoum As-sHebaani – where she answers several questions about her vlog on Youtube. The purpose of the blog is to test your comprehension level درجة…