Archive for 'Vocabulary'
Mahraganaat Music أغاني المهرجانات – Part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 7, 2022
In today’s blog post, we’re going to talk about a specific musical genre نوع من الموسيقى that has recently emerged ظهرت مؤخرًا within the music industry مجال صناعة الموسيقى in Egypt. This trend توجّه is called Mahraganat Music/ songs موسيقى/أغاني المهرجانات. This blog post series will explore this term, its meaning & its purpose as well as…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 4 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 24, 2022
Welcome to the final part of this series of blog posts where we’re studying a funny scene in Egyptian Arabic. The short clip is from a very popular TV series that is called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Over the last 3 weeks/ blog posts, we studied the transcript in Arabic (Egyptian & Standard)…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 3 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 17, 2022
Welcome to the 3rd. part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we followed the transcript (in English) of the scene. This week, we’re following the dialogue in Standard Arabic so you can compare it with…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 10, 2022
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post as we’re still studying a short clip from a very popular TV series called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. Last week, we had the transcript (in Egyptian Arabic) of the scene to follow. Today, you will be able to follow the dialogue in English…
Funny Scene: Family dinner outing – Part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 3, 2022
Today’s post is a listening practice, based on a short clip from a very popular TV series that was screened in 2017 on CBC Drama. The series is called سابع جار > The seventh neighbour. The show focuses on the day-to-day details of the lives of seven different neighbours who live in the same apartment…
Comprehension: Egyptian lady living in a caravan (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 27, 2021
Welcome to the second part of this blog post. Last week, we started studying a short clip in Egyptian Arabic. The clip is about a female engineer مهندسة مصرية who decided to live in a caravan. In today’s post, I provide you with the correct answers to the questions you were given in the previous…
Christmas song أغنية عيد الميلاد: “Knock on their doors” Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to one of my last blog posts for this year 2021 مرحبًا بكم في واحدة من آخر تدويناتي في هذا العام ٢٠٢١. Christmas is here جاء عيد الميلاد! Merry Christmas to all عيد ميلاد مجيد للجميع In Arabic, the phrase عيد الميلاد (with the definite milad> al-milaad الميلاد) means: The birth day and is…