Archive for 'Pronunciation'
Egyptian Proverbs (8) Posted by Fisal on Aug 13, 2014
Arabic proverbs الأمــْــثــَــال الــعــَــرَبــِــيــَّـــة reflect the beauty جــَــمــَــال of the Arabic Language and the wisdom حــِــكــْــمــَــة of the Arabs and their culture. In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation مــَــوْقــِــف that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for the sake of fun الــمــُــتــْــعــَــة , I…
Fareed Shawky: (1920 – 1998) Posted by Fisal on Jul 30, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Google celebrates today the 94th birthday of Fareed Shawky Mohammad Abdu. This post is for those of you who don’t know him. Fareed Shawky فــَــريـــد شــَــوْقــِــي was a famous Egyptian actor مــُــمــَــثــِّــل and screen writer كــَــاتــِــبْ ســِــيــنــَــاريــُــو and film producer مــُــنــْــتــِـــج . He was famous all over the Arab world and Turkey. He spent about…
Listening Comprehension Answers: Ramadan Desserts Posted by Fisal on Jul 3, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Did you like the listening comprehension exercise about Ramadan Desserts? How did you score? In today’s post I am going to provide the answers for every one of you to check. Spending Ramadan in any Muslim or Arab country is so special. It is the month of Sawm الــصــيــام (fasting)…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Ramadan Desserts Posted by Fisal on Jul 2, 2014
Have you ever been to a Muslim country in Ramadan رمــضــان ? Muslims all over the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan these days. Ramadan is the Arabic month of Sawm الــصــيــام (fasting) which is the fourth pillar رُكــْـــن of Islam (You can find more information about the Five Pillars of Islam here)…
A Revolution of Doubt (Om Kolthoum) Posted by Fisal on Jun 26, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! In my previous post I introduced a short biography of the Saudi prince and poet Abdullah Al-Faisal. Today, we are going to read and listen to one of his masterpiece Fus’ha poems. The poem was published in the prince’s first volume of poetry; وحــى الــحــِــرمــان (revelations of Deprivation) but it…
Karakashangy: The Role of Songs in learning Arabic Posted by Fisal on Jun 18, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Our post today is about the role دَوْرof songs in learning Arabic as a foreign language. Research has said a lot about the effectiveness فــَــعــَــالــِــيــَــة of songs الأغــَــانــِـى and music الــمــُــوســِــقــَــى on learning a second language. One advantage مــِــيــزَةof using songs in the classroom is its flexibility مــُــرُونــَـــة. Songs…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 6) – The Passive Verb Form Posted by Fisal on Jun 12, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today, we are going to continue our study of the verbal sentence. What we have learnt earlier about this type of sentence is as follows: 1- The Verbal Sentence 2- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 1) 3- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 2) 4- Subject-Verb Agreement in…