This Day in History: The 1967 War (حرب 1967 ) Posted by Fisal on Jun 5, 2011
Every nation’s life is like everyone’s life; it has ups and downs. This day in 1967 was an unlucky day to all Arab countries neighboring Israel. Like today and on 5th June 1967, Israel launched a sudden and violent military attack against Syria, Egypt and Jordan. The war lasted for only six days. That…
Weak Verbs: The Lafeef Verb الفعل اللفيف Posted by Fisal on Jun 4, 2011
Today we are going to learn the last type of the weak verbs which is the Lafeef verb الفعل اللفيف . We said before that a weak verb is that which has one or two sick or vowel letters in its root form. The letters that make a verb sick/weak are: Waw (و ), Alif…
If You are my Love, .. إن كنت حبيبي Posted by Fisal on Jun 3, 2011
We have read before about the great Egyptian singer and actor Abdel-Haleem Hafez. Today, we are going to read and listen to a part of one of his great poetic songs entitled “A Message from under Water”. The poem was written by the famous poet Nizar Qabbani. You will find the song words and…
Weak Verbs: The Naaqis (Defective) Verb الفعل الناقص Posted by Fisal on Jun 1, 2011
We said before that a weak verb is that which has one or two sick letters in its base (root). The letters that make a verb weak are: Waw (و ), Alif (ا ) and Yaa (ى ). The position of the sick letter in the root verb determines the type of the weak verb…
Listening comprehension Posted by aziza on May 31, 2011
In this post, I present another listening comprehension exercise. Listen to the video, and use the provided word translations to answer the questions below. The answers are found at the end of the page. مصادرة = confiscate لفائف – مخطوطات = Scriptures البحر الميت = the Dead Sea الخلافات = the disputes قبل الميلاد =…
word seach, communication, answer Posted by aziza on May 31, 2011
In this post, I present the answer of the word search game. I also present you with a small challenge! How many words can you make from these two roots (ك ل م) ‘to speak’ and (ف هـ م) ‘to understand’? Try to list as many words as you can, and try to think of…
Word search – communication Posted by aziza on May 30, 2011
In this post, I have created an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, look at the bottom of the page for the translation. 1- لغة 2- إشارة 3- حديث 4- كلام 5- فهم…