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Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 3 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 17, 2022
Welcome to the 3rd. part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we followed the transcript (in English) of the scene. This week, we’re following the dialogue in Standard Arabic so you can compare it with…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 10, 2022
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we had the transcript (in Egyptian Arabic) of the scene to follow. Today, you will be able to follow the dialogue in English…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 3, 2022
Today’s post is a listening practice, based on a short clip from a very popular TV series that was screened in 2017 on CBC Drama. The series is called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. The show focuses on the day-to-day details of the lives of seven different neighbours who live in the same apartment…
Christmas song أغنية عيد الميلاد: “Knock on their doors” Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to one of my last blog posts for this year 2021 مرحبًا بكم في واحدة من آخر تدويناتي في هذا العام ٢٠٢١. Christmas is here جاء عيد الميلاد! Merry Christmas to all عيد ميلاد مجيد للجميع In Arabic, the phrase عيد الميلاد (with the definite milad> al-milaad الميلاد) means: The birth day and is…
Desserts With No Sugar حلويات بدون سكر Posted by yasmine on Dec 15, 2021
In last week’s post, we talked about قطع السكر cutting sugar and its health benefits. In this post, we have a dessert recipe بدون سكر. I found it on the Al-Jazeera website موقع الجزيرة by a Lebanese nutritionist اختصاصية تغذية and mother أم named علا أبو شقرا Ola Abu Shakra. كيك الموز ودبس التفاح🍌🍎 I…
Song: And my eyes are wide awake وعيوني سهارى Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 13, 2021
Today’s post is about a song from Libyan Folklore. It’s called وَعْيُوني سَهًارى, which means ‘And my eyes are wide awake’. The version of the song we’re studying today is a ‘modernised’ version نُسْخَة حَدِيثَة of the older version of the song, which was performed by a Libyan singer, called Salaam Qadri سلام قدري. The…
قطع السكر Cutting Sugar Part Two Posted by yasmine on Dec 8, 2021
Welcome to part two of this post where we’ve been talking about “sugar” السُّكَر, types of sugar أنواع السكر and why we’ve been told it is healthy to quit “added sugar” السكر المضاف. As I mentioned, I personally have been trying to cut sugar قطع السكر and it has been tough. Do you recall what…