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The Arabic Folk Tale “الطِّيرْ الأخْضَر” Part Two Posted by yasmine on Oct 14, 2020
In this post, we will continue the folk tale of الطِّيرْ الأخْضَر The Green Bird. What do you تَتَذَكَّر remember from part one? If you’re interested in this story and haven’t read the first part, go ahead and jump to last week’s post. 😊 رأتْها الأُخت فصارَت تَبكي، ولمّت عِظام أخيها وهي حزينة عليه. ثُم…
The Arabic Folk Tale “الطِّيرْ الأخْضَر” Part One Posted by yasmine on Oct 7, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d read the first part of a short Arabic folk tale of Palestinian origin called “الطِّيرْ الأخْضَر” meaning “The Green Bird”. It is about an زَوجة أب شَرّيرة evil stepmother and a boy who becomes a green bird. It is a tale of وَحْشِيّة cruelty, حُبّ love, and سِحْر magic…
Arabic Poem “أَنَا مِنْ هُنَاكَ” by Mahmoud Darwish Posted by yasmine on Sep 30, 2020
I thought this week, we could look at some شِعْر عَرَبي Arabic poetry by the well- known Palestinian national poet محمود درويش Mahmoud Darwish. When learning a foreign language, it can seem overwhelming to dive into poetry or literature in that language. Yet, even if we do not understand each and every word of let’s…
Let’s Talk about Movies in Levantine Arabic Part Two Posted by yasmine on Sep 16, 2020
🎬🎥 In this second part of talking about movies in Levantine Arabic, I wanted to create an example conversation between two speakers using the vocabulary we learned in part one. The first speaker asks for a film recommendation and the second describes one of her favorite films. I have also added an audio reading of…
Expressing One’s Feelings and Emotions in MSA and Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Aug 26, 2020
Have you ever tried expressing how you feel in Arabic? Besides feeling happy or sad, what other مَشاعِر feelings or عَواطِف emotions do you know in Arabic? In this post, we’ll look at words for expressing مَشاعِر and عَواطِف in Modern Standard Arabic as well as Levantine Arabic. Let’s begin with the positive ones. 😊…
Question Words in Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Aug 19, 2020
مرحبا! 🙂 In this post, we’ll be looking at the question or interrogative words (who, what, where, why, when, how, which) in Levantine Arabic with examples along with a reminder of what the question words are in اللُغة العَرَبية الفُصحى Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). First, can you recall which Arabic speaking countries use the Levantine…
Letter of the Week (ي) yaa Posted by yasmine on Aug 12, 2020
Moving on to our twenty eighth and last letter of the Arabic alphabet (ي)! I hope you found this series of posts helpful in your Arabic learning. As always, let’s look at various words beginning with (ي) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter ي…