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Bilingual Eng/Ar BBC Radio Programme : Life without TV or Telephone – الحياة من غير الهاتف أو التلفاز

MD — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:58:49 +0000

BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers.

As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.

Read the following article before listening to the podcast:

Today Somaya and Finn are talking about two famous inventors from Scotland.
Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone. Other people were working speech transmission devices at the same time, but it was Bell who was awarded the first US patent for the invention of the telephone.John Logie Baird is credited as the inventor of the television. Like the telephone, this invention is used by people around the world.But which invention is more important to you? Some of us would say, “I couldn’t live without my telephone.” Others would say, “I couldn’t live without my television.”While others would say, “I could live without either of them!” They don’t think that these inventions are important at all.Would it be a hassle for you not to have a telephone?

Would you be happy not to watch some of the rubbish on TV?

الهاتف و التلفاز تم إختراعهم في إسكتلندا و ملايين من البشر حول العالم يستخدمون كلاهما

إذا كان لديك الخيار لإستخدام أحدهما هل ستختار الهاتف أم التلفاز و لما؟

Could you live without your telephone or television?

هل تستطيع الحياة من غير الهاتف أو التلفاز؟

Listen to the programme :

Key Vocabulary:

inventors : مخترعون
credited : نُسب إليه
speech transmission devices : أجهزة تنقل الكلام
awarded : مُكأفاة – مُجازاة
patent :براءة الإختراع
the invention of the telephone : إختراع الهاتف
around the world : حول العالم
I couldn’t live without my telephone : لا أستطيع مواصلة الحياة اليومية من غير هاتفي
hassle : مُشكلة
rubbish : قمامة

Source of Realia:

BBC Arabic – Learn English - تعليم الإنجليزية

Greeting Expressions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic

MD — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:44:51 +0000

The Arabic Program at Brigham Young University is developing various internet based learning resources to supplement Arabic Language Learning.
In conjunction with Prof. Muhammad Eissa and the NMERLC, BYU is developing an Egyptian Spoken Arabic program to expose students to real spoken Arabic situations through internet video.

The segments, filmed in Alexandria, expose students to progressively more complicated social situations.

This short video clip presents different types of greetings in colloquial Egyptian Arabic.

Watch the video

Source of realia:

National Middle East Language Resource Center

Find out more

Egyptian Arabic – Wikipedia

Colloquial Egyptian expressions

For more information on this project/resource, please contact us at nmelrc-research@byu.edu

Cultural idiomatic expressions

MD — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:24:13 +0000

What do you say when you sneeze? What do you say when you are invited to someone’s house?

In this podcast, you will learn some of those important Arabic expressions that are used culturally which will definitely impress your Arab friends and might save you from embarrassing situations.

Listen to the podcast

Read the PDF transcript

Source of Podcast :

ArabicPod Lesson 23

Greetings Message/Calligraphy

MD — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:44:35 +0000

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Can you read this greetings message?
How would you translate it?

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