Adverbs of space (1) ظرف المكان Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 8, 2021
Salam سلام ? We’re going to continue our series about adverbs الظُروف in Standard Arabic. Last month, two posts were dedicated to adverbs: the temporal adverb ظرف الزمان (Click here and here). Today (and in the next blog), we’re going to look at the other popular type of adverb, and that is: Spatial adverb ظرف المكان. To…
5 Arab Countries Part One Posted by yasmine on Jan 6, 2021
In this post, we’ll be looking at some interesting fact questions about five different بِلاد عَرَبية Arab countries (المَغْرِب Morocco, لُبنان Lebanon, فِلسطين Palestine, العِراق Iraq, and ليبيا Libya). Answers will be provided in the next post. We’ll also be learning vocabulary related to describing countries in terms of location, language, culture, etc. First, take…
The King’s new song: “Bab El-gamal” Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jan 4, 2021
Happy New year سنة جديدة وسعيدة عليكم 🙂 Just 2 days before 2020 ended, the Legendary Egyptian singer المغنّي الأسطورة المصري Mohamed Mounir محمد منير (or The King المَلِكْ as he’s often called), released أطلق the first song الأغنية الأولى from his new album “Bab El Gamal” باب الجمال. The song is full of مليئة بـ…
Grocery Shopping in Arabic Part Two Posted by yasmine on Dec 30, 2020
In this post, we’ll continue learning more food vocabulary such as تَوابِل/ بَهارات spices, أعشاب herbs and more فَواكِه fruits and خُضار vegetables. We’ll also be looking at a conversation between Dana and her son Bilal at the supermarket. Dana is planning a dinner for some relatives and would like to make مَحْشي الكوسا والباذِنجان…
Merry Christmas, from Fairuz – ليلة عيد Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Dec 24, 2020
Welcome to this blog post مرحبًا بكم في هذه التدوينة. Christmas is here! Merry Christmas to all عيد ميلاد مجيد للجميع. ??? Today, I’d like to introduce you to the Arabic version of النسخة العربية من Jingle Bell song أغنية أجراس الميلاد that is performed by Fairuz فيروز – the iconic Lebanese singer. The song is called…
Grocery Shopping in Arabic Part One Posted by yasmine on Dec 23, 2020
In this post, we’ll be looking at a conversation between Sameera who is doing her weekly shopping التسوق and the grocer who will help Sameera with her list of groceries. But before we get into that, I thought we could look at the five food groups المَجموعات الغِذائية or مجموعات الطعام in Arabic and learn…
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…