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Arabic Translation Answer: The Conflict Posted by Fisal on Jun 19, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Here is the English translation of the last article by the Egyptian journalist Ahmad Bahgat. Bahagat أحــْــمــَــد بــَــهــْــجــَــتْwho worked at Al-Ahram Newspaper for a long time. He had a daily column in the newspaper under the heading of “Box of the World صــُـــنــْــدُوق الــدُّنــْـــيــَـــا” in which he dealt with so…
Arabic Translation Exercise: The Conflict Posted by Fisal on Jun 19, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the famous 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…
Karakashangy: The Role of Songs in learning Arabic Posted by Fisal on Jun 18, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Our post today is about the role دَوْرof songs in learning Arabic as a foreign language. Research has said a lot about the effectiveness فــَــعــَــالــِــيــَــة of songs الأغــَــانــِـى and music الــمــُــوســِــقــَــى on learning a second language. One advantage مــِــيــزَةof using songs in the classroom is its flexibility مــُــرُونــَـــة. Songs…
A Love Letter to Hummus Posted by jesa on Jun 17, 2014
Hummus has become a world renowned side dish, where different shops, markets, and even countries compete on who has the better recipe for preparing my utmost favorite Middle Eastern side dish. In this post, I express my candid thoughts and feelings about Hummus (الحمص) while in the U.S. Dear Lebanese Hummus (عزيزي الحمص اللبناني), I…
Reading Comprehension3- answers Posted by aziza on Jun 13, 2014
In this post, I present the answers of the reading comprehension questions in my previous post. The questions are based on the article below adapted from bbcarabic website. الكساد الاقتصادي يدفع 10 آلاف شخص للانتحار كشفت الدراسة أن خسارة المرء لعمله أو لمنزله أو تراكم الديون عليه من ابرز العوامل التي تدفع المرء للانتحار…
Reading comprehension Posted by aziza on Jun 13, 2014
Read the article below adapted from bbcarabic website, and answer the questions that follow. You can use the vocabulary items at the end of the post to assist your comprehension. الكساد الاقتصادي يدفع 10 آلاف شخص للانتحار كشفت الدراسة أن خسارة المرء لعمله أو لمنزله أو تراكم الديون عليه من ابرز العوامل التي تدفع…
Listening Comprehension Answers: Moroccan Food Posted by Fisal on Jun 7, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! I hope you have liked the Listening comprehension Exercise about Moroccan Food. How was your score? How much of the Arabic text could you understand? How many questions could you answer? How many Arabic words couldn’t you answer? What did you like most about the video? Now, let’s check…