Archive for 'Vocabulary'
World Arabic Language Day Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 21, 2020
Last Friday يوم الجمعة الماضية, the 18th. Dec. 2020, was the world Arabic language day اليوم العالمي للغة العربية. In 2012, UNESCO -منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة – decided to dedicate قررت أن تُخصّص this day هذا اليوم to celebrate the Arabic language للاحتفال باللغة العربية , its diversity وتنوّعها and legacy وإرثها…
Coronavirus Vaccine (2) لقاح فيروس كورونا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 14, 2020
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. In the first part of this blog (click here to check), we started looking at an article that announces the news of Covid-19 vaccine اللُّقاح المضاد لفيروس كورونا that has been approved الذي تمت الموافقة عليه by the UK من قِبل المملكة المتحدة . While we…
Coronavirus Vaccine (1) لقاح فيروس كورونا Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 10, 2020
A few days ago, the UK’s prime minister وزير خارجية المملكة المتحدة announced أعلن that the UK has authorised أن المملكة المتحدة قد وافقت على the use of the COVID-19 vaccine: Pfizer استخدام لقاح فايزر المُضاد لفيروس كورونا. With this news, UK has become أصبحت the first western country أول دولة غربية to approve تُقِرّ…
“It seems that I’ve loved you” – Levantine Arabic song Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 23, 2020
The year 2020 hasn’t been a great one to many people so far, but good songs can certainly help! The song that brightened my days أضاءت أيامي throughout October خلال شهر أكتوبر this year is “shakli Habbet-il” شكلي حبّيتك by the Syrian singer المغنّي السوري Hamada Nashawaty حمادة نشواتي . In this post, we will…
King Hussein of Jordan Posted by yasmine on Nov 18, 2020
If you have visited Jordan or know a bit about its تاريخ history, surely you know of المَلِك حُسَين بِن طَلال King Hussein bin Talal. His pictures still hang in البيوت homes, المَدارِس schools, المَباني الحكومية government buildings, القاعات العامة public halls and even المَطاعِم restaurants. الشعب الأردني The Jordanian people like to be reminded…
Preparations for a 2nd lockdown in England (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 13, 2020
Welcome to new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة 🙂 This is the second part of a blog post where we’re still looking at an article that addresses the way people in England prepared for the recent lockdown there. In the previous post, we started learning about the language used in the article and…
Arabic Vocabulary Surrounding Mobile Phones Posted by yasmine on Nov 11, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn the Arabic vocabulary used to talk about الهَواتِف المَحمولة mobile phones. For example, making calls, texting, getting a phone plan, etc. You’ll find that some Arabic speakers refer to many such vocabulary words in English as well as in Arabic similar to the case of many other technological…