Tag Archives: Arabic
الأكِل الصِحّي Healthy Food Part One Posted by yasmine on Feb 17, 2021
In this post, we’ll be watching the first part of a video (in Jordanian Levantine) that talks about الأكِل الصِحّي healthy food that keeps us full longer. I have included a transcription and English translation to help you follow along. Let’s begin with a definition of الأكل الصحي in الفُصحى MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) and…
5 Arab Countries Part Two Posted by yasmine on Jan 13, 2021
In this part two post, we’ll be looking at some more interesting fact questions about five different بِلاد عَرَبية Arab countries (الأرْدُن Jordan, مَصْر Egypt, السَّعودية Saudi Arabia, سوريا Syria, and الإمارات العَرَبية المُتَحِدة The United Arab Emirates). We’ll also be learning vocabulary related to describing countries in terms of location, language, culture, etc. First, take a…
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…
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…
Forming Questions in MSA and Levantine Arabic Posted by yasmine on Dec 2, 2020
Questions الأسْئِلة are straightforward in Arabic. There is no special form of the verb used with questions. In this post, we’ll look at the way to form questions in Arabic in both MSA اللُغة العَرَبية الفُصحى and Levantine اللَّهْجَةُ الشَّامِيَّة using the appropriate question words. I have provided examples for practice and audio to help…
Prepositions of Place in Arabic Posted by yasmine on Nov 25, 2020
In this post, I thought we’d learn some of the most common preposition words used to describe the position of something in Arabic, along with example sentences with audio to help with pronunciation. Before we begin, can you pick something you see and try describing its position in Arabic? How many prepositions in Arabic do…
King Hussein of Jordan Posted by yasmine on Nov 18, 2020
If you have visited Jordan or know a bit about its تاريخ history, surely you know of المَلِك حُسَين بِن طَلال King Hussein bin Talal. His pictures still hang in البيوت homes, المَدارِس schools, المَباني الحكومية government buildings, القاعات العامة public halls and even المَطاعِم restaurants. الشعب الأردني The Jordanian people like to be reminded…