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Practice Negation Posted by aziza on Mar 23, 2015
In this post, we revise the different ways of negation (النفي) in Arabic. In Arabic, we usually use special particles to negate different constructions. Below is a list of the common ways of negation. Present tense verbs are negated by (لا) Past tense verbs are negated by (ما) or by (لم + present tense) Future…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Fear Posted by Fisal on Mar 13, 2015
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Here are the answers to the last reading comprehension exercise about fear and the biggest fear for humans in the modern life; that is the fear of being poor. To view the exercise and the questions again, please click here. الإجـــابـــات Answers اِســمُ الــمــَــرَضِ الــذي تــَــتــَــحــَــدَّثُ عــَــنــْــهُ الــقــِــطــْــعــَــة هــو الــفــقــر…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: Fear Posted by Fisal on Mar 12, 2015
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: “الــخــوفُ هــُــو مــِــنَ الأمــْــراضِ الــتــى تــُــنــَــغــِّــصُ الــحــَــيــَــاةَ و تــذهــبُ بــالــســَّــعــَــادَةِ . و هــُــو مــَــرضٌ خــَــطــِــيــرٌ قــَـــلَّ أنْ يــَــســْــلــَــمَ مــِــنــهُ إنــْــســَــانٌ ، و هــُــو أشــْــكــَــالٌ و ألــوانٌ ، يــُــشــَــكــِّــلُ أعــْــمــَــالَ الإنــْــســَــانِ و يــُــوَجــِّــهــُــهــَــا طــَــوْعَ إشــَــارتــِــهِ ، و حــَــســْــبَ…
Exclamation in Arabic Posted by aziza on Feb 25, 2015
In this post, I explain how to express exclamation in Arabic (أسلوب التعجب). In Arabic, we start exclamatory sentences with (ما), then it is followed by the (أفعل) form of the adjective, and then object you complain about, e.g. البيت كبير. (The house is big.) ما أكبر البيت! (How big the house is!) البنت…
Reading Comprehension Answers: Sharjah World Music Festival 2015 Posted by Fisal on Jan 22, 2015
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Here are the answers to the last reading comprehension exercise about the Sharjah World Music Festival 2015. To view the exercise and the questions again, please click here. الإجـــابـــات Answers اِســم الــفــنــان الــضــيــف هــو كــاظــم الــســاهر . 1) The guest artist is Kazim Al-Sahir. حــلَّ هــذا الــفــنــانُ ضــَــيــفــاً عــلــى إمــارة…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: Sharjah World Music Festival 2015 Posted by Fisal on Jan 22, 2015
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: يـحـل الـفـنـان الـعـراقـي كـاظـم الـسـاهـر ضـيـفـاً عـلـى إمـارة الـشـارقـة لـلـمـرة الأولـى فـي مـسـيـرتـه الـفـنـيـة ، لـيـحـيـي أولـى حـفـلات الـدورة الـثـانـيـة مـن مـهـرجـان الـشـارقـة لـلـمـوسـيـقـى الـعـالـمـيـة ، الـتـي سـتـقـام فـي الـعـاشـرة مـن مـسـاء يـوم الـجـمـعـة 16 يـنـاير الـمـقـبـل…
Can Going to the Gym Make you Deaf? Posted by jesa on Jan 17, 2015
Marhaba! With the beginning of every New Year, most people around the world commit to getting in shape, exercising more, and in many cases losing weight. People flood gyms and struggle to workout at least 3 times every week. Some fail while others succeed. Going to the gym consistently is an item that appears on…