Archive for 'Culture'
Domestic tourism in Covid-19 times السياحة الداخلية (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 27, 2021
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post مرحبًا بكم في الجزء الثاني من هذه المدونة. Last week, we started talking about domestic/ local tourism السِّيَاحَة الدَّاخِلِيَّة that has been quite popular lately because of the pandemic. We started focusing on article from BBC Arabic that focuses on the tourism situation within the UK…
Domestic tourism in Covid-19 times السياحة الداخلية (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 20, 2021
Welcome to a new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة. Since the beginning of the pandemic, most people were prevented from traveling مٌنِعَ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ مِنَ السَّفَرْ. Many, as a result, started to travel within their countries بدأ الكَثِيرُونَ فِي السَّفَرِ فِي الدَّاخِل and explore the parts واكْتِشَافِ الأَجْزَاءِ they have not been…
Song: Thursday is lovely الخميس حَبُّوب Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 13, 2021
Thursdays are very special in the Arab world (or they were until recently). Today’s post is dedicated to a song about Thursdays. The song is about the great musician الموسيقي and composer الملحّن Mohamed Rahim محمد رحيم. The song is in Egyptian Arabic and it’s so much fun! Before we study the lyrics, I’ll start…
Keywords around libraries المكتبات Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 6, 2021
Welcome to this new blog post مرحبا بكم في هذه المدوّنة جديدة 🙂 Today, we’re going to learn about the theme of libraries المكتبات and some of the keywords المفردات الرئيسية around them – in Standard Arabic العربية الفصحى. The post will be vocabulary focused. A library مَكْتَبَة As may of you…
El-Funoun Dance Troupe فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية Part 2 Posted by yasmine on Sep 1, 2021
Welcome back to part two of this post about the Palestinian folklore group called فِرْقة الفنون الشَّعبية الفِلَسطينية El-Funoun Dance Troupe. We’ll continue listening to the rest of the short interviews in the clip while following along with the transcription, then answer a few questions. 🎇 فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية🎇 .عضو من الفرقة: بجوز كانت…
El-Funoun Dance Troupe فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية Posted by yasmine on Aug 25, 2021
Are you interested in folklore التُّراث الشَّعبي/الفولكلور? Have you attended any performance by a folklore dance group فِرقة رَقْص فولكلوري? What comes to mind when you think of فرقة رقص فولكلوري? I assume they have a lot of pride الفَخْر since they express their love for their culture الثَّقافة and homeland الوَطَن through the art…
Colloquial phrases: Arabic vs. English (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 23, 2021
Last week, we started looking at popular English colloquial phrases عبارات عامية and the Arabic equivalent to them, both Standard and spoken Arabic (a rage of dialects). Last week, we looked at the first eight. We’re going to learn the other 8 in today’s post. *To refresh your memory, you can visit last week’s…