Archive for 'Vocabulary'
Comprehension task: Grenfell Tower Fire Victims (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Nov 1, 2017
Welcome back to the second part of this blog post where we are focusing on a compression task, based on a news article produced by BBC Arabic: http://www.bbc.com/arabic/40295645 As you can see in the link above, or remember from last week, the news article is related to the incident of Grenfell tower in London. This…
‘Not your habibti’ Project مشروع أنا مش حبيبتك Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 25, 2017
Today’s post is a comprehension task, based on a short text and audio clip, produced by the BBC Arabic (see video clip below). In this video, you will listen to the founder of the project and the Palestinian activist, Yasmeen Majli, talking about her project ‘Not your habibti’ and its aims. Earlier last week…
Comprehension task: Grenfell Tower Fire Victims (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 18, 2017
Today post is a comprehension task, based on a short text and audio clip, produced by the BBC Arabic. Here is the link to the news article: http://www.bbc.com/arabic/40295645 The same text is also copied below. For this task, you need to read the text, which is made up of four sentences, in order to answer…
Indefinite Nouns and Definite Nouns in Arabic Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Oct 12, 2017
The Noun الاسم alism in Arabic, any noun that is derived from the verb, can be either Indefinite نَكِرَة nakirah or Definite مَعْرِفَة ma‘rifah. The Indefinite النَّكِرَة an-nakirah is almost always changeable to Definite following to two morphological rules. Not every Definite, however, is changeable to Indefinite. That is, there are certain nouns that exist…
The theme of nature in Fairuz’s songs (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 11, 2017
In this post, we’re looking at two songs by Fairuz , following the same theme of the previous post. Both are in Lebanese Arabic. – The first song is: شايف البحر Do you see the sea? شايف البحر شو كبير؟… كبر البحر بحبك Do you see how big the sea is, that big I…
Arabic Numbers 1—10: MSA vs. Dialects Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Oct 5, 2017
Deemed as one of the most difficult languages to learn, some may wonder what makes Arabic so. Well, one aspect of difficulty is the variation between the standard formالفُصْحَى (formal, educational form) and the dialectal, colloquial, conversational form العَامِّيَّة. As to numbers, as is the case with most variations, the difference is morpho-phonological. That is…
The theme of nature in Fairuz’s songs (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Oct 4, 2017
The first part of this blog post explores some of the nature-related words and phrases that appear in one of Fairuz’s most popular songs. We’re going to study one in this post (below: lyrics & video clip) and another in the next post. This one is in Lebanese colloquial Arabic. Fairuz is one of the…