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Basics of the Libyan cuisine المطبخ الليبي – Part 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 16, 2018
This two part post is a comprehension practice about the Libyan cuisine and some of the main الرئيسية/popular الأكثر شهرة dishes الأطباق in Libya. In last week’s post, you had the opportunity to listen to the clip and follow the transcript of the clip (a combination of Libyan & Egyptian dialect). There were also a…
Basics of the Libyan cuisine المطبخ الليبي – Part 1 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on May 9, 2018
This three part post is a comprehension practice about the Libyan cuisine and some of the main الرئيسية/popular الأكثر شهرة dishes الأطباق in Libya. The first part provides some questions for you to answer. In addition, a transcript of the clip (a combination of Libyan & Egyptian dialect) will provided here. The second part of…
Tense and Negative Affixes in Arabic Dialects and MSA Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on May 8, 2018
Two obvious differences between Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) are the parsing marks and certain affixes. In MSA, the time of the action of the present verb is indicated through the parsing marks. In dialects, it is known through prefixes. Likewise, MSA sentences are negated using separate negative particles. In dialects, the original…
A Vital Arabic Particle with Multiple Meanings Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Apr 26, 2018
Arabic is full of words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. One example is the Arabic particle ان – alif and nun, with no ء hamzah or diacritics. Their addition and position make the word versatile. When the ن has fahHah with…
What is Arabic Sentence Parsing? Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Apr 24, 2018
Arabic sentence parsing is called إِعْرَاب. It is a change in the way final letters of words, namely nouns and verbs, are assigned diacritical marks which are called parsing marks عَلَامَات الإِعْرَاب. They are فَتْحَة fatHah, ضَمَّة DHammah, كَسْرَة kasrah, and سُكُوْن sukuun. They have a grammatical value and cause a slight change in pronunciation…
Family Vocabulary Posted by aziza on Apr 20, 2018
In a comment on my last post, one of the readers asked for posts suitable for beginners, and in this post, I present a simple video which teaches reading words related to family relationships. The videos are from a YouTube site called (Learn with Zakaria). The transcription and translation of the video are provided below…
Arabic Subordinating Conjunctions Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Apr 19, 2018
A subordinating conjunction is a word that connects two simple and unequal clauses—simple as they only have one verb and unequal as one can stand alone (called main) while the other (called subordinate) needs to be linked to another to be fully meaningful. In Arabic, subordinating conjunctions can be single-word, two-word, or three-word. This post…