Archive for 'Grammar'
The Verbal Sentence (Part 5) – The Passive Subject Posted by Fisal on Apr 25, 2014
We are going to continue our study of the Verbal Sentence الـجـمـلــة الـفـعـلـيـــة . We have already discussed the Verb in more detail and the Subject or doer of the verb. We have also started discussing the subject-verb agreement; how the verb looks like with different subjects. All that was in the active…
Nizar Qabbani: One Road Posted by Fisal on Apr 17, 2014
Ahlan أهـــلاً , Arabic lovers! Today, I introduce one of Nizar Qabbani‘s poems. It is not a love poem. It is a patriotic one. The poem is for Palestine and the struggle of its people against the occupation. There is no Arab poet who didn’t write about that problem. I did the…
Listening Comprehension Answers: The Love of the Arabic Language Posted by Fisal on Apr 12, 2014
Ahlan أهـــلاً , Arabic lovers! I wonder what you have done in the last listening comprehension exercise. We have listened to Dr Hanada Taha talking about the love of the Arabic language and today, In Sha’a Allah إن شاء الله , I will present the answers. الإجــَـــابــَـــات Answers مــفــتـــاح الــفـِــكــْــر هــُـــو الــلــُّـــغـــَـــة …
Listening Comprehension Exercise: The Love of the Arabic Language Posted by Fisal on Apr 10, 2014
Listen to Professor Hanada Taha talking about the love of the Arabic language and then answer the questions: اِســتــمـِــع إلـى الــدكــتـــُــورة هــَـــنــَـــادا طــه تــتــحــدَّثْ عــَـــنْ حــُــبِّ الـلــُّــغــَـــةِ الـعــَــربــيـــَّـــة ثــُــم أجـِــبْ عـَــن الأســئــلــة الأســـْـــئــِـــلــة Questions مــا هـــو مــفــتـــاح الــفـــكـــر؟ 1) What is the key to thought? مــا الــذى أوقـــع الــدكــتــــورة هــنـــادا فــى…
Practice Arabic Grammar Posted by aziza on Mar 10, 2014
In this post, I present some exercises which you can use to practice basic Arabic grammar. You can scroll down to see the answers at the bottom of the page. 1- Edit the following passage by correcting 10 agreement errors. ماجدة بنت مصرية يسكن في مدينة نيويورك. والدها مصري يعملون في الأمم المتحد. ووالدتها أيضاً…
10 Uses of the 100 Most Common Words in Arabic Posted by jesa on Feb 26, 2014
Marhaba! Many of you asked me to provide you with a couple of sentences from my previous post that listed the 100 most commonly used words in Arabic. I think it’s pretty useful to see how these words can be used in a sentence. This will improve your writing skills as well as provide you…
Reading Comprehension Answers: The Phenomenon of Abu-Simbel Posted by Fisal on Feb 25, 2014
Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise about the phenomenon of Abu-Simbel. To view the exercise again, click here. تـــَـــتـــَـــحــَــــدَّثْ الــقــِـــطـــْـــعــَــــةُ عن ظاهرة معبد أبو سمبل و حب الملك رمسيس الثانى لزوجته نفرتارى 1) The passage is about the phenomenon of the Temple of Abu-Simbel and the love of King Ramses II…