Describe Your House in Arabic Part II Posted by yasmine on Jun 12, 2019
In last week’s post we learned how to describe our house; how many rooms, size, etc. In this post, we’ll be looking at things you find in these rooms (furniture, fixtures, objects, etc.) Side note: I’ve been trying to learn French and have been using sticky notes and sticking vocabulary such as these on the…
The Hookah Lifestyle Posted by Anastasia on Jun 10, 2019
Hookah, shisha, arguileh or water-pipe tobacco is an instrument used for smoking or vaping flavored tobacco (Muaassal معسل) such as apple, mint, cherry, chocolate and watermelon through a hose (نبريش). Where does the hookah originate from? and when was it first used? The hookah(الأرغيلة) was first introduced in the 1500s AD . Some people claim that the…
Describe Your House in Arabic Part I Posted by yasmine on Jun 5, 2019
In this post, we’ll be looking at Arabic vocabulary for different rooms in a house/apartment and practice how we can describe the basic characteristics صِفات of a house. ? In the picture below I have drawn a house with the names of the rooms in Arabic to help you remember. Of course, you can add…
A Fun Arabic Game! Posted by yasmine on May 29, 2019
? In this post we’ll be learning how to play an Arabic game that can make improving your vocabulary and spelling skills fun! Growing up in Jordan, at school, in between lessons, we played a game لُعْبة called “حَرْف – إسم – حَيوان” meaning “letter- name – animal”. Each player has a piece of paper…
A day in the Bekaa Valley رحلة إلى سهل البقاع Posted by Anastasia on May 27, 2019
Marhaba readers! Yesterday I spent the day in the Bekaa Valley( سهل البقاع), the largest valley in Lebanon. The first stop was in Zahle(زحله) the largest town and administrative capital of the Bekaa Governorate. In Zahle, we visited the biggest wine producers in Lebanon : Les Caves de Ksara (French). Les Caves de Ksara…
Laylat Al-Qadr Posted by aziza on May 26, 2019
It is the holy month of Ramadan, and today is the 21st of Ramadan, so we started the last ten days of the holy month. The last ten days are particularly important for Muslims because they include ليلة القدر ‘the Night of Decree’ or ‘the Night of Destiny’. This is a very special night for…
Things You Wear in Arabic Besides Clothes Posted by yasmine on May 22, 2019
In this post we’ll look at things we wear besides clothes such as accessories, headphones, makeup, etc, in both MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) and Levantine Arabic (dialect of the Levantine countries; Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan). Let’s look at accessories in Arabic with example sentences. ? watch:ساعة .هذهِ السَّاعة كانَت هَدية مِن أَخي This…