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Food words that are very easy to learn Posted by aziza on Aug 31, 2012
There are many types of foods in Arabic that are very easy to learn for foreign students of Arabic because the names of these foods in Arabic are very similar to their names in European languages. If you think about one of these foods, e.g. “burger” and how you say it in English, it will…
Eid Al-Fitr Reading Comprehension Quiz Answers Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2012
Here are the answers to the Reading Comprehension Quiz about Eid Al-Fitr. To view the passage and questions again, please click the following link: https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/eid-al-fitr-reading-comprehension-quiz/ بدأ عيد الفطر يوم الأحد الماضى 1) Eid Al-Fitr began last Monday. ذهب الكاتبُ إلى المسجد مع أصدقاءه 2) The writer went to the mosque with his…
Eid Al-Fitr Reading Comprehension Quiz Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2012
اقـــرأ الــقــطـــعــــة الــتـــالــيـــة ثــم أجــــب عــن الأســئـــلــة Read the following passage, then answer the questions: بـَــدأ عـــيــدُ الـفــِــطـــر يــَــوم الأحــَـــدِ الــمـَـــاضـِــى . اِســتــيــقــظـــتُ فـِــى الــســَّـــاعــَـــة الــثـــالــِــثـــة صــَــبــَــاحــَـــاً ثــُـــمَّ ذهــَــبــْـــتُ مـَــعَ أصــْــدِقـــَـــائــِــى إلـى الــمــَـــســْـــجــِـــد . أدَّيـــْـــنــَـــا صــَــلاة الــفــَــجــْــــرِ فــى جــَــمــَـــاعــَـــــةٍ , ثـــُــمَّ جــَــلــَــســـْـــنـــَــــا نـــُـــكــَـــبـــِّـــرُ و نــُــهــَــلــِّــلُ حـَــتــَّــى مــَــوعــِــد صــَــلاةِ الــعــِــيــدِ . صــَـــلـــَّـــيــْــنـــَـــا صــَـــلاةَ الــعــِـــيـــد , و…
Nizar Qabbani: Bigger than all Words Posted by Fisal on Aug 16, 2012
It has been a while since we last read any Arabic poetry! Today we are going to read a poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نزار قبانى . The poem is entitled, “Bigger than all Wordsأكــبــرُ مـِــن كــُــلِّ الـكــَــلـِـــمــَــــات ”. In the poem, Nizar boasts of being a great eloquent poet. He…
Arabic Sentences: The Verbal Sentence Posted by Fisal on Aug 12, 2012
We have already studied the Nominal Sentence الـجــُــمــلــة الاســمــيـــة . Today, we are going to study the second type of the Arabic Sentences which is the Verbal Sentence الــجــمــلــة الــفــعــلــيـــة . Simply speaking, the verbal sentence in the Arabic language is the sentence that starts with a verb فـِــعـــْـــل . It consists of a verb…
Reading Comprehension Answers Posted by Fisal on Jul 28, 2012
Here are the answers to the previous reading comprehension exercise اِقــرأ الـقـطــعــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the Following passage and then answer the questions: إنَّ عـــذاب الإنــســــان الأكــبـــر هــو الــفــقـــر , و لـكــنَّ الـفـقــر لـيــس نـاتـجــاً مـن سـُــوء تــوزيــع الـثــروة فـحـســب , و لـكـنــه نـاتــج مـن سـُــوء تــوزيــع الإنـســانــيـــة . و يـظـهــر ذلـك…
Fisal’s Dictionary: “to move” Posted by Fisal on Jul 22, 2012
Fisal’s Dictionary: “to move حــَــرَك” Today, we are going to go on a journey to the depths of the Arabic Dictionary in order to discover some of its secrets. We will look up the root verb حـَـرَكَ and explore some of its derivatives. * حـَـرَكَ [V.I.] = 1- To feel or complain about some…