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Basic Arabic Conversations Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Mar 8, 2018
The primary goal of learning another language is communication, that is being able to use it in real-life communicative settings (i.e. in a restaurant, a hotel, a shop, when meeting someone new, and so forth). This post includes a list of the common Arabic conversational exchanges. Though I disfavor transliteration (because I view it as…
Basic Sentence Structure in Arabic (I) Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Sep 14, 2017
Structurally, there three types of sentences in Arabic: the basic الأَصْلِيَّة, the compound الكُبْرَى, and the clausal الصًّغْرَى (i.e. a clause). The basic, which can be either verbal فِعْلِيَّة or nominal اِسْمِيَّة, has two parts. In the case of the verbal, which is our focus here, the first part is the verb الفِعْل and the…