On Mother’s Day: أمي كم أهواها Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 20, 2020
Tomorrow is a special day in the Arab world. The 21st. March of every year marks يصادف Mother’s day عيد الأم as well as Children’s day عيد الطفل . On this occasion, I chose a kids’ song to learn and that is: أمي كم أهواها “My mother, oh how much I love her”. The song…
Letter of the Week (خ) khaa Posted by yasmine on Mar 18, 2020
Moving on to our seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (خ), we will look at various words and phrases beginning with (خ) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter خ. Initial خـ, as in the word “خَروف” meaning “sheep”. Medial ـخـ , as in the…
Coronavirus: فيروس كورونا والحرارة Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 16, 2020
What if you experience a rise in your body temperature ارتفاع في درجة حرارتك ? Instead of panicking الشعور بالهلع /الذعر right away, we could educate ourselves تثقيف أنفسنا about the possible link احتمال وجود صلة between having corona virus فيروس كورونا and high temperature درجة الحرارة مرتفعة and whether a high temperature actually means…
Letter of the Week (ح) Haa Posted by yasmine on Mar 11, 2020
Moving on to our fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ح), we will look at various words and phrases beginning with (ح) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter ح. Initial حـ, as in the word “حَزين” meaning “sad”. Medial ـحـ , as in the…
Learn about IWD يوم المرأة العالمي Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 9, 2020
Yesterday, the world celebrated the International Women’s Day (IWD) اليوم العالمي للمرأة , which is an annual event حدث سنوي that takes place on the 8th. March every year. Today, we’re going to learn some facts about this day, the reasons behind it and how it became an annual celebration احتفال سنوي . To do…
Relative pronouns in Spoken Arabic, 2 Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Mar 6, 2020
In the first part of this post, we started discussing s subtle aspect of Arabic grammar, and that is that of relative pronouns ضمائر الوصل. To recap, a relative pronoun is a pronoun that follows a noun in order to elaborate on it and add extra information about it. In the second part of the…
Letter of the Week (ج) jeem Posted by yasmine on Mar 4, 2020
Moving on to our second letter of the Arabic alphabet (ج), we will look at various words and phrases beginning with (ج) along with more culture/language related facts. Let’s begin with looking at your basic forms of the letter ج. Initial جـ, as in the word “جِسْر” meaning “bridge”. Medial ـجـ , as in the…