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Arabic Translation Answers: ‘Mawaqif’ Posted by Fisal on Nov 27, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! How did you do in the last translation post about Mawaqif? Here is the English translation answers of the Arabic Translation Exercise: “Mawaqif” that was written by the Egyptian writer and journalist Anis Mansour أنــيــس مــَــنــْــصــُـــور who used to write daily articles for Al-Ahram newspaper; الأهـــرام /Al-Ahram/ under one title; “Situations…
Arabic Translation Exercise: “Mawaqif” Posted by Fisal on Nov 27, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the Arab writers. The article will be in Arabic and you are going to test your Arabic reading skill and translate the article into English. Of course I will post the English translation…
Listening Comprehension- Miss Ronde France – answers Posted by aziza on Nov 24, 2014
In this post, I present the answers of the listening comprehension exercise presented earlier, and the transcription of the news story. There is also a list of useful vocabulary. Transcription: أقيم في فرنسا حفل انتخاب ملكة جمال البدانة، وفازت جوليا كاستيللي بهذا اللقب لعام 2013. حسب ما أوردت مجلة “باري ماتش”، وقد جرت المنافسة…
Listening Comprehension- Miss Ronde France Posted by aziza on Nov 24, 2014
In this post, I present a listening comprehension exercise in Arabic. Please listen to the video and answer the questions that follow. You can use the vocabulary list provided to facilitate your comprehension. Answer the following questions: Where was the Miss Ronde competition held? Who won the competition? How many contestants entered the competition?…
Learn the 10 Most Important Words about Thanksgiving in Arabic (2) Posted by jesa on Nov 23, 2014
Marhaba! Regardless of whether you are an American, a Canadian, an Iraqi, Syrian,Egyptian or a citizen from any country on this globe, I think you would agree that the idea of giving thanks is awesome and marvelous! Give thanks to all your loved ones, friends, work colleagues, acquaintances, and random people that you meet. Saying…
“I Am Not Selfish”; Amr Diab Posted by Fisal on Nov 23, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a beautiful song by Amr Diab عــَـــمــْـــرو دِيــَـــاب . The song is entitled “I Am Not Selfish أنـــا مـــش أنـــانــِــي“. It was written by the Egyptian poet Tamer Hussien تــَــامــِــر حــســيــن and composed by Islam Zaki إســلام زكــي . The song is about five minutes long and…
Learn the 10 Most Important Words about Thanksgiving in Arabic Posted by jesa on Nov 22, 2014
Marhaba! If you are an American, have American friends or just interested in learning about different traditions across the world, you would know that Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It became an official federal holiday back in 1863 and to this very day families across the…