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Turkish words in Libyan Arabic Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 21, 2021
Welcome to a new post 🙂 مرحبا بكم في مدوّنة جديدة Today’s post is of interest to those who are keen to learn more about spoken Arabic and the focus is Libyan Arabic اللهجة الليبية . A few months ago, we learnt some of the popular Italian words that were adopted from the Italian language and…
Song: “Oh Eid يا عيد “ Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 13, 2021
The Eid spirit is all around us! Today is first day of عيد الفطر Eid Al-fiTr. I wish those who celebrate Eid a very joyful one كل عام وأنتم بخير – عيد مبارك Kul ‘aam wa aantu-m bi-khair, Eid Mubarak On this day, I would like to share a lovely song, produced by Zain…
Comprehension piece: Mysterious doors (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 10, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog. We’re still looking at the BBC report that tells the story of two mysterious doors in London قصة بابين غامضين في لندن. Lsat week, we got to the point where Ahmed Fakhouri – the journalist in the report – was about to solve the mystery for us…
TbAhij: Libyan Dish to serve during Ramadan Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Apr 19, 2021
We’re one week into Ramadan. So, Ramadan Kareem رمضان كريم again to those serving this month of fasting 🙂 I would like to introduce to a savoury Libyan dish; it’s called TbAhij طْباهِجْ. It’s a traditional dish طبق تقليدي that is considered an appetiser يعتبر نوع من المقبلات or a side dish أو طبق…
Ramadan came to us رمضان جانا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Apr 12, 2021
Ramadan Kareem رمضان كريم to those serving this month of fasting 🙂 It’s just been announced in – Saudi Arabia – that tomorrow is the first day of Ramadan غدًا هو أول أيام رمضان. So, I would like to share with you an old song that celebrates the start of Ramadan. It’s in Egyptian…
Helping homeless cats during the pandemic Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Apr 6, 2021
We all probably heard of cat cafes مقاهي القطط before, but not many of us heard of a café for homeless cats مقهى للقطط المشرّدة! Yes, there is one! In Sweden J Unlike in other countries, the café stayed open المقهى ظل مفتوحًا during the pandemic خلال الجائحة and the demand الطلب is higher أعلى…
Mother’s Day: how did it start? (part 2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 26, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. In the previous post, we started learning about Mother’s Day عيد الأم and how it’s differently celebrated around the world. In today’s post, you will have another exercise to work on. Also, you will be able to check your answers to last week’s exercise…