Tag Archives: Arabic Language
Making requests in MSA and ECA Posted by aziza on Nov 24, 2012
To learn a diaglossic language like Arabic, you need to know both the formal variety (Modern Standard Arabic) and a colloquial variety. In Arabic, there are many colloquial dialects that differ geographically! In this post, I will give you some expressions which you can use to make requests in both Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic…
Listening comprehension in Arabic Posted by aziza on Nov 14, 2012
Listen to the news item below and answer the questions that follow: Use the following words to aid your understanding: نفط = oil احتياطي النفط = oil reserve العالمي = global تستحوذ = own الإمدادات = supplies تستمر = continue مستوى = level إنتاج = production أنجز = achieve استثمار = investment تكلفة = cost…
Practice Feminine Plurals – Answers Posted by aziza on Nov 7, 2012
In this post, I give the answers of the exercises that deal with feminine Plurals (جمع المؤنث السالم) presented yesterday. Here are the feminine plural forms: They (fem. Pl.) هن Them (fem. Pl.) ـهن Their (fem. Pl.) ـهن You – subject pronoun (fem. Pl.) أنتن Your (fem. Pl.) ـكن…
Practice feminine plurals Posted by aziza on Nov 6, 2012
Feminine Plurals (جمع المؤنث السالم) are formed by replacing the suffix (ة) at the end of feminine words by the suffix (ات) First, do you remember feminine plural forms? They (fem. Pl.) هن Them (fem. Pl.) ـهن Their (fem. Pl.) ـهن You – subject pronoun (fem. Pl.) أنتن Your (fem…
Arabic 5-a-day Posted by aziza on Oct 28, 2012
Health professionals in the UK have been talking about the importance of having 5-a-day, i.e. 5 portions of fruits and vegetables every day to keep healthy and fit. I believe that any serious learner of Arabic must have 5 portions of Arabic a day as well to improve their abilities and update their skills. The 5-a-day of Arabic…
practice the dual – answers Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In this post, I present the answers of the exercises presented earlier to practice the dual, as well as the translation of the sentences. Change the underlined words in these sentences into dual and make the necessary changes: 1. هذا هو الولد الذي يلعب مع أخي هذان هما الولدان اللذان يلعبان مع أخي This is…
practice the dual Posted by aziza on Oct 23, 2012
In Arabic, dual forms can be very confusing to speakers of English who learn Arabic as a foreign language. This is basically because there is no dual in English, and it is very easy to miss dual in Arabic sentences. In this post, I aim to give you a chance to practice different dual forms…