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Fried sardines Posted by aziza on Jun 22, 2014
Do you like fried sardines? I do, but I do not like the cleaning part! Here is the Egyptian way of preparing fried sardines. Fried sardines are nice, but before you fry sardines, you have to clean them thoroughly. This involves opening up the sardine and removing the guts. You also have to remove all the scales. Then…
Arabic Translation Answer: The Conflict Posted by Fisal on Jun 19, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Here is the English translation of the last article by the Egyptian journalist Ahmad Bahgat. Bahagat أحــْــمــَــد بــَــهــْــجــَــتْwho worked at Al-Ahram Newspaper for a long time. He had a daily column in the newspaper under the heading of “Box of the World صــُـــنــْــدُوق الــدُّنــْـــيــَـــا” in which he dealt with so…
Arabic Translation Exercise: The Conflict Posted by Fisal on Jun 19, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a translation exercise. We are going to read a short article by one of the famous Arab writers. The article will be in Arabic and you are going to test your Arabic reading skill and translate the article into English. Of course I will post the…
Karakashangy: The Role of Songs in learning Arabic Posted by Fisal on Jun 18, 2014
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Our post today is about the role دَوْرof songs in learning Arabic as a foreign language. Research has said a lot about the effectiveness فــَــعــَــالــِــيــَــة of songs الأغــَــانــِـى and music الــمــُــوســِــقــَــى on learning a second language. One advantage مــِــيــزَةof using songs in the classroom is its flexibility مــُــرُونــَـــة. Songs…
Reading Comprehension3- answers Posted by aziza on Jun 13, 2014
In this post, I present the answers of the reading comprehension questions in my previous post. The questions are based on the article below adapted from bbcarabic website. الكساد الاقتصادي يدفع 10 آلاف شخص للانتحار كشفت الدراسة أن خسارة المرء لعمله أو لمنزله أو تراكم الديون عليه من ابرز العوامل التي تدفع المرء للانتحار…
Reading comprehension Posted by aziza on Jun 13, 2014
Read the article below adapted from bbcarabic website, and answer the questions that follow. You can use the vocabulary items at the end of the post to assist your comprehension. الكساد الاقتصادي يدفع 10 آلاف شخص للانتحار كشفت الدراسة أن خسارة المرء لعمله أو لمنزله أو تراكم الديون عليه من ابرز العوامل التي تدفع…
The Verbal Sentence (Part 6) – The Passive Verb Form Posted by Fisal on Jun 12, 2014
Ahlan Arabic fans! Today, we are going to continue our study of the verbal sentence. What we have learnt earlier about this type of sentence is as follows: 1- The Verbal Sentence 2- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 1) 3- The Subject of the Verbal Sentence (Part 2) 4- Subject-Verb Agreement in…