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Algeria’s Story of Independence Posted by Fisal on Nov 2, 2012
Like yesterday in November, 1954 the Algerian Liberation Revolution ثــورة الـتــحـــــريــــر الــجــــزائـــريــــة broke out against the French colonization إســتــعـــمــــار that started in 1830. The revolution of the Algerian people lasted for nearly seven years of political and armed struggle. The revolution ended with the declaration of Algeria’s Independence إســتــقـــلال on 5 July, 1962. Nearly…
A word search game in Arabic, answers Posted by aziza on Oct 31, 2012
In this post, I present the answer of the word game presented in the previous post. موسيقى حفل عزف جيتار عود طبلة بيانو أغنية مطرب أداء Music party/concern play (music) Guitar Lute Drum Piano Song Singer Performance
A word search game in Arabic Posted by aziza on Oct 31, 2012
In this post, I have prepared an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, look at the bottom of the page for the translation. All the words are related to music. موسيقى حفل عزف…
Eid Mubarak Posted by aziza on Oct 26, 2012
Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك)! Todays is Eid ul Adha (عيد الأضحى), or the feast of sacrifice. Muslims celebrate this feast by slaughtering a sheep. The aim of this is to remember the story of Prophet Abraham (إبراهيم) who was willing to slaughter his own son in submission to God’s orders, but then God sent him…
practice the dual Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In Arabic, dual forms can be very confusing to speakers of English who learn Arabic as a foreign language. This is basically because there is no dual in English, and it is very easy to miss dual in Arabic sentences. In this post, I aim to give you a chance to practice different dual forms…
Fisal’s Dictionary_”to build” Posted by Fisal on Oct 21, 2012
Today, we are going to go on a journey to the depths of the Arabic Dictionary in order to discover some of its secrets. We will look up the root verb بـَـنـَـى and explore some of its derivatives. * بـَــنــَـى /bana/ [V. T.]: (something) = to build. Ex. – تبنى الحكومةُ مدارسَ جديدةً …
Listening Comprehension exercise in Arabic – answers Posted by aziza on Oct 19, 2012
In this post, I present the transcription of the news item and the answers of the questions presented in the previous post. Transcription تبدأ اليوم مناورات عسكرية هي الأكبر في منطقة الخليج تهدف إلى إزالة الألغام والمتفجرات من مياه المحيط في البحر الأحمر، الخليج العربي، خليج عدن وخليج عُمان. المناورات تقودها الولايات المتحدة وتشارك فيها…