Archive for 'Grammar'
Arabic Translation Exercise: ‘The Arabic Letter’ Posted by Fisal on Sep 28, 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…
Listening Comprehension Answers: East and West Together Posted by Fisal on Sep 11, 2014
Ahlan Arabic lovers! Here are the answers to the last listening comprehension exercise about the east and west music giants; Charles Davis and Ziad Al-rahbani, coming together in Lebanon. To view the exercise again, click here. الإجـــَـــــابــــَـــــات Questions اِســْــم عــِــمــْــلاق الــمــُــوســِـــيــقــَــى الــغــَــرْبــِــيّ هــُــوَ تــشــَــارْلــِــز دِيــفــِــيــسْ . 1) The name of the western…
Listening Comprehension Exercise: East and West Together Posted by Fisal on Sep 11, 2014
Ahlan Arabic lovers! Do you like music? What kind of music do you like? Can music unify people? Today, we are going to listen to a news report about two giant music figures; one from the east and the other from the west. شــَــاهــِــدْ الــفــِــيــديــُــو ، ثــُــمَّ أجـِــبْ عـَــن الأســئــلــة الــتــَّــالــِــيــَـــة : Watch…
Reading Comprehension Answers: “Politicians” by Anis Mansour Posted by Fisal on Sep 7, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! How was the reading exercise? Here, I present the answers to the Reading Comprehension Exercise; “Politicians” by Anis Mansour; the famous Egyptian writer and philosopher. The passage was part of his daily column in Al-Ahram newspaper. To view the exercise again, click here. الإجـــَــــابـــَــــات Questions الــســَّـــاســَـــةُ يــَـــرَوْنَ أنَّ الــنــَّــاسَ جــَــمــِــيــعـــًا…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: “Politicians” by Anis Mansour Posted by Fisal on Sep 7, 2014
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: “….. وَ الــســَّــاســَـــةُ هــُــمْ الــّــذيــنَ يــَـــرَوْنَ أَنَّ الــنــَّـــاسَ جــَــمــِــيــعــــًا أَدَوَاتْ وَ وَســَــائــِـــلْ … عــَــرَبــَــاتْ … مــِــنْ أَجــْــلِ أَنْ يــَـــصــِــلــُــوا بــِــهــِــمْ وَ عــَــلــى جــُــثــَـــثــِــهــِــمْ إلــى الــســُّـــلــْـــطــَـــةِ … إلــى الــْــقــُـــوَّةِ … إلــى الــمــَــالِ … إلــى الــْــقــَـــضــَـــاءِ عــَــلــَـى أُنــَــاسٍ آخــَــرِيــِـــنْ ……
Nizar Qabbani; “Unlimited Love” Part II Posted by Fisal on Aug 29, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Here is the second part of the long love poem by Nizar Qabbani نــِــزَار قــَــبــَّــانــِــي . The poem is entitled “Unlimited Love حــُــبٌّ بــِــلا حــُــدُود“. There is also the youtube video reciting the whole poem in Arabic so that you can listen to the poem as long as reading…
Nizar Qabbani; “Unlimited Love” Part I Posted by Fisal on Aug 29, 2014
Ahlan أهــْــلاً Arabic lovers! Today, I am presenting a very beautiful love poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نــِــزَار قــَــبــَّــانــِــي. The poem is entitled “Unlimited Love حــُــبٌّ بــِــلا حــُــدُود“. Since the poem is very long, I will post it in two parts. I have also posted a youtube video reciting the whole…